ajax testing with steamed cucumbers

If you're looking for an easy way to test AJAX with cucumber, you might want to give Steam a go.

having the right people (bank managers) around you

having the right people (accountants) around you

Following my discovery of a bank who felt like an ally rather than an enemy I decided I should try and fix the other weights in my business life. Using FreeAgentCentral is a pleasure, as is dealing with BFCA who have quickly answered any questions I had clearly and concisely.

getting diffs for commits on github

It's as easy as adding .patch or .diff to the end of the commit URL. Who'd have thought!

good things

I've been using Things for about a week now and I'm still discovering useful features and concepts. It really is a fantastically designed piece of software, an excellent example of powerful and intuitive simplicity.

email-spec haz a Pony

I've added Pony support to email-spec. You can find it in version 0.3.5. Thanks to Ben for the excellent library!

gsub!(/gsub!\('.'/, 'tr!(')

I do wish people would consider tr more often. I often see gsub! used to replace one character with another. Think of the electrons!

finally, useful repeating tasks

The latest Things release has implemented a feature that has been lacking in every task/todo application I've used, the ability to easily repeat tasks only on selected days.

clean usb automount with udev

An easy way to get USB drives auto-mounting under Linux.