Archive for February, 2007
reStructuredText tools for gedit
Over the last couple of days, I put together some reStructuredText tools for gedit, the lightweight text editor for the Gnome desktop on Linux. They include syntax highlighting, some keyboard shortcuts, and an HTML preview feature that I derived from another developer’s earlier work on Markdown support.
This was made possible by gedit’s excellent plugin [...]
Gnapsack 0.2 released
Version 0.2 of my client for the Backpack Web Services API, Gnapsack, was released today, and now has a new home. The two main enhancements are Windows compatibility and ability to handle multiple lists.
Agile tools in Ruby and Python
I spent a few months at the end of last year working on a Ruby on Rails project. While I constantly found myself longing for Python, I did appreciate the extent to which RoR carried certain best practices–among them an MVC architecture and Test-Driven Development–to an extreme, baking them into the framework.
The following table [...]
Trac + Darcs + reStructuredText
Edgewall Software’s Trac seems to have become something of a standard for agile management of software projects both within the Open Source community and within closed organizations, and after having the opportunity to use it on a recent project, I can appreciate why. It’s simple to setup and manage, and its self-described "minimalistic approach [...]