Improving productivity with Alfred
First Bruce Wayne used his services now you can too. Alfread is a quicklaunch application for Mac OS X, which aims to save you time in searching your local computer and the web.
We have been using the beta for a while now and its fantastic so be sure to check it out
Getting RVM and Textmate working together
Since RVM works its magic by manipulating your shell’s environment, Textmate can’t know what version of ruby you’ve activated using RVM. This is a headache for developers. Fortunately there’s a quick fix in new versions of RVM.
For info on how to fix your textmate have a read here
Sentia’s iPads land
Sentia’s iPads have arrived. Sentia is currently working hard developing applications for the iPad and iPhone and will be posting more news in the coming weeks about these iPad specific applications
Sentia starts development on new client iPhone Application
Sentia is happy to announce we have a new project soon to start development. I can’t say more about the details of the new project but all l can say is that we will grab this project but the horns and get stuck into it.
Ill keep you posted with updates as they unfold
Learning Ruby On Rails
Hey spoken to a few developers mainly UNI grads who are looking to get into rails and they often ask whats the best way to do so. So l thought l would put together a list of resources they can use to get up to speed.
If anyone else knows of some other ones please let me know
== General Practices ==
Dev on a Mac
Read up on TDD (Test Driven Development)
Use Growl for your Autotest notifications
TextMate – The only Editor you need
GitHub – Great space to see open source code and gems and plugins
http://gemcutter.org/
== Rails Setup ==
http://hivelogic.com/ – Has some great tutorials on getting your environment setup on a mac.
== Tutorials ==
http://rubyonrails.org
Rails Casts – Ryan Bates screen casts about all things rails related
PeepCode – Great screen casts about all things rails related
== Blogs ==
Sentia Blog
http://thoughtbot.com
http://weblog.jamisbuck.org
http://blog.jayfields.com
http://errtheblog.com
== Books ==
http://pragmaticstudio.com – Great source of books about rails and other technologies with a focus on the right practices.
Finally the only real way to learn is to try things out. Follow other developers blogs and use all the resources you can such as Google groups etc.
Don’t be scared to get it wrong its the only way to learn.
Crimpic iPhone app launches
Sentia are happy to announce that Crimpic has launched on the iPhone store. To find out more information on Crimpic why not check it out at the app store here
