Newcomers to Ruby are often confused by the fact the Object class defines three methods related to equality - ==, eql? and equal?. Of the three the one that it’s easiest to describe is equal? - it ...

Good developers are very careful about the proper use of whitespace in their files - there should be no empty lines at the beginning of a file, no empty lines at the end of a file, no trailing whit...

Prelude Often in comparisons between Django and Rails, one of the Django advantages being cited is the automatic admin interface you get for free out-of-the-box there. I guess a lot of people don...

Prelude If you are a professional writer – i.e., if someone else is getting paid to worry about how your words are formatted and printed – Emacs outshines all other editing software in approxim...

Sometimes it’s useful to be able to open the file you’re editing in Emacs in an external program. For instance - you might be editing some HTML file and you might want to see how is it looking in a...

Prelude I’ve started my personal blog some three years ago. Back then in was hosted on wordpress.com and was called Devcraft (https://devcraft.wordpress.com). I had a lot of interesting (at least ...

Prelude Heroku is an amazing cloud hosting solution. It’s extremely well documented, very easy to start with, very stable and provides you with the option to use free hosting for some small applic...

Prelude Last month I’ve blogged about the exciting things are coming up in Emacs 24. What I failed to mention originally is that although Emacs 24 is slated for a Spring 2012 (tentatively) release...

Prelude Recently I’ve decided to have a look at the current development version of Emacs - namely Emacs 24. I was quite impressed with the work done by the development team so far so I decided to ...

Prelude I’ve recently been using Debian a lot (mostly Debian Wheezy (aka testing)), So I’ve decided to adapt my Fedora 15 post installation setup & tips article for Debian. Here are some of th...