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http://www.mono-project.com/MonoTouch It looks like the Mono project (which is an alternate implementation of .NET) has been ported to the iPhone. C# and iPhone together at last.  Brilliant! Posted in Uncategorized

So I am a long time user and avid fan of Subversion.  I did a lot of Rails development in 2007, not too much in 2008, then jumped back into things again this year.  In my time away from Rails it seems everyone has switched to using Git!  Most notably the Rails team itself has switched. This [...]

If you are running Mac OS X and doing any kind of development (Ruby, Rails, HTML, CSS, Javascript, C++, whatever) I highly recommend looking into getting TextMate.  A friend of mine bought a license as a birthday present for me some number of years ago and I had only used it sporadically.  As of late though [...]

I have heard many good things about Google Webmaster Tools, and set out to get brockbouchard.net registered.  One of the best features of the webmaster tools is that you can build a “Sitemap” for your site (which is just XML describing your site’s content) and submit it directly to Google.  However, generating the Sitemap at [...]

So you’ve bought yourself a good book on rails (I recommend Agile Web Development with Rails, Third Edition), and you’ve finished developing, and writing tests for, your application.  If you’ve been following Agile development methods, you have even been deploying to your server using something like Capistrano right from the get go. But now you are [...]

Since the iPhone is the greatest thing ever and will one day solve all of the world’s problems, I figured I should get brockbouchard.net up and running with an optimized site that automatically displays when browsing on an iPhone.  Sure enough, Rails makes this very eay.  Thanks to a great article on slashdotdash.net, I didn’t [...]

With brockbouchard.net I have tried to take separation of presentation and content to an extreme, with the CSS Zen Garden serving as a primary inspiration.  That is to say the HTML generated by my Rails views contains only the content of my pages, with minimal structural markup.  The appearance of the site (colors, layout, fonts, [...]

So I finally got brockbouchard.net up and running in what I consider a mostly finished state!  I think of it as a personal-site/online-portfolio for sharing my software projects with the world.  Arguably the most useful thing is an Environment Variable Editor that I wrote to get around having to use the horrid series of fixed-size [...]

Nice. UPDATE: Apple posted a patch rather promptly, and thus my iPhone continues to be the greatest thing to ever happen to humanity. Posted in Uncategorized Tagged: Apple, iPhone