Monthly Archives: October 2007

Loading data model with Fixtures in Rails

2007-10-21 – 14:26

I’m putting together a smallish data model in Rails. Some of my data is pre-existing, including a bunch of Items, some of which have SubItems. I found some hints on how to represent the initial data with YAML and to piggy-back on the Fixture functionality to load it in a migration, all from Agile Web […]

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Economics of Cynicism

2007-10-06 – 13:43

For some reason I thought Joel Spolsky was anti-Apple and pro-Microsoft. Now I realize he’s a cynical guy who used to write about software development, but who’s now busy running a small, successful software company, and who writes about talking about software.

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Core Image-based image editors

2007-10-01 – 06:38

A gaggle of sub-$100 image editors written atop Core Image:

DrawIt - $49
LiveQuartz - Free
ChocoFlop - Free
Acorn - $39.95
Image Tricks - $14.95
Pixelmator - $59

I haven’t spent time on any of these but a comparison would be pretty interesting. Too bad none of them are open source.

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