The Prince Of Swords

Over Christmas break I spent the week re-writing Phat Cock Tees, the first Rails app I did in 2005. It was finally deployed today.

Crawling through the code it was clear had a very limited understanding of what the hell I was doing back then. It was still running as a CGI on Postgres in the development environment. Gee. Wonder why it was slow?

I think you’ll like this version much betteh! And still Not (always) Safe for Work.
View at your own risk.
Parental Guidance Suggested.
Dangerous Curves Ahead.
Maximum Load 3000lbs.
Do Not Use Near Open Flame.

Technically, I played with more cool stuff like RSpec, Scriptaculous effects, Haml, Sass, MySQL, more modern version of Rails (but not yet 2.0), Capistrano, ActionMailer, REST, siFR, and no more HTML tables.

1882 shirts for your viewing pleasure.

So back when you used Win98 to develop webs apps in PHP, there was that cool plugin for SVN that integrated with Windows Explorer. You could see the status of a file because its icon would change colors if you modified it. You could right-click and do most of the SVN actions.

I’ve been wanting that for the Finder in Mac OS X ever since I switched in 2006.

At the end of December, besides the year crashing to an end, a tool I’d written off for dead, was updated!

SCPlugin is like Tortoise for Mac! I’ve installed it and will let you know how it goes.

I’ve been using svnX. It’s ok for general work but doesn’t let you easily check out a previous previous version of a file or handle svn properties.