Code Design Has To Be Slick 
It’s so 1999 again…
I just went over to GitHub to comment on a ticket. I wanted to put an URL in the comment. No problem, usually all those comment boxes have a help function nearby, that explains you how the markup works.
GitHub has a link next to the comment box that says “Parsed with GitHub Flavored Markdown“. When you click it, you end up on a page that tells you how their flavour is different from the standard one and then…
Put your rdoc on github, monitor your sever
Last week I needed a quick way to monitor our server, and also updated our code documentation. I’ve come up with some small tools that some people out there may find useful:
- gokdok – automatically upload your rdoc documentation as github-pages
- watchdogger – a little watchdog daemon that’s quite configurable
New Design Again
As I found out that my old WP template broke in all places, even killing the comment function. I spent some of my lunch break searching for a clean one – thanks for ThemeShift for making this one available for free.
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Assit on GitHub – the gem is back
I while ago I wrote a small ruby library for runtime assertions to use in our projects. While I didn’t use it as heavily as expected, it has been useful in debugging in the beginning. It offers the possibility to include extra runtime checks – even expensive ones – to the code, which can be disabled in production code.
I’ve moved the project to github now, and the gem is not broken anymore. This means that you can
sudo gem install averell23-assit
from gems.github.com. The old gem (assit) is still around on rubyforge for some reason, but it’ll remain on 0.0.3 forever. If you use this, better get the github version (averell23-assit) now.
The Source is online
Last week, rather quietly, we put the NietzscheSource site online. While we’re still don’t use all the cool features we built into the backend, and need to fight of some teething problems, you can finally see some philosophical content from the Discovery project.