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Interview with Allan Odgaard, creator of TextMate

A couple months ago, Allan Odgaard, creator of the OS X text editor TextMate, mentioned on his blog that he was going to be traveling to the US and passing through New York. I emailed him to see if he would be interested in doing an interview while he was in town, and he kindly [...]

Open Rails and PHP programmer positions at Digital Pulp, in New York (telecommuting possible)

UPDATE: newer job descriptions here. My day job, Digital Pulp, is seeking backend / application programmers. Our biggest need is for a Rails developer. We would prefer someone with some experience building a production application in Rails, but would also be open to experienced programmers who are interested in getting into Rails. Telecommuting is a [...]

Is rcov failing with a bus error? Here is the solution.

Is rcov failing with a bus error? …./config/../vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/../../activesupport/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:322: [BUG] Bus Error ruby 1.8.4 (2005-12-24) [powerpc-darwin8.8.0] rake aborted! Command failed with status (): [/usr/local/bin/ruby -Ilib:test -S rcov --t...] This has been happening to me inconsistently for months and driving me crazy. The solution is to use the –no-rcovrt flag, which will not use the c binding [...]