A new website for the Git was launched last week and it looks pretty great.
Along with the new site is some new branding as well. Overall, I think everything looks really great … but why not a responsive site?
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Postgres.app
Recently I followed a link to http://postgresapp.com/ and was intrigued by what I saw.
Not just the icon, which is nice, but the actual app itself. Go ahead and check out the site for more accurate information, but basically it comes down to this:
- Download the file
- Unarchive it
- Move Postgres.app to your /Applications folder
- Start up the app
- …
- Profit!?
That’s it. You then have a fully-functioning install of PostgreSQL 9.1+ for your Mac. To update, you go ahead and download the next version, shut off the currently-running one, and then move the new one over to /Applications again.
Super nice.
There is a ton more information at their documentation page, so head on over to find out more. This is a HUGE win as far as simplicity when installing PostgreSQL so that you can begin work on applications for Heroku (who just announced their free development database built on PostgreSQL 9.1). Head on over and try it out.
I just finished worked through the newest version of the Ruby on Rails Tutorial and feel like I have a much better handle on Rails 3.2. I do recommend it to get people up-and-running on some of the latest things in Rails.
However, I think that my favorite part of Rails 3 is one of the most hated: Bundler. It really just made things so much easier for me.
But I’m crazy, so don’t worry.
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An Hour A Day
Michael Lopp posted over at Rands in Repose about a new goal for himself:
Starting at the beginning of February, I made a change. Each day I blocked off a precious hour to build something.
Every day. One hour. No matter what.
Every day? Yup. Including weekends.
A hour? Yup, 60 full minutes. More if I can afford it.
I like it. I like it a lot. Knowing full well that I am going to fail at this consistently (having a 7 month-old will do that for you), I’m going to try and start setting aside an hour a day to actually build something.
Not just think about it, but actually build something. I can do the “thinking” part, but I need to get better at the “building” part.
An hour a day.
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Haters Gonna Hate
One thing I will never understand is the need to announce when you are “leaving” something. I know I’ve done it in the past, but I need to stop … and everyone does.
I’m not sure why it has become a common practice to spend time writing up a treatise about why you are leaving a platform/OS/technology for something newer/shinier/ different, but it is depressing.
One really cool thing about technology is that we have choice. It is not just a choice of what we use but a choice to also move onto other things if our interest wane or our needs change.
That’s really cool.
It has not stopped us from still searching out the unicorns in our technology lives. That one magical thing that will forever fix everything that is wrong … be it productivity, popularity, speed, etc.
Then this morning I wake up to Mark Boulton’s Snark and more of the same. More attacking. More complaining. More entitlement. A sad state of affairs.
A little bit of “nice” could go a long way.