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Archive for September, 2005

How To Use Google’s Ajaxslt Library

Posted: Friday, September 30th, 2005    Tags: Howto, Javascript, XSL

Google has written an open-source library called Ajaxslt that implements XPath and XSLT in Javascript. It took a bit of playing to get it to work.

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Writing a Ruby Test Suite that RDT and Test::Unit Can Understand

Posted: Tuesday, September 20th, 2005    Tags: Howto, Ruby on Rails

I’m working on a Ruby project using Eclipse and RDT. RDT provides a couple useful features, including support for running unit tests with Test::Unit. Unfortunately, it’s pretty primitive at the moment. One big problem is that it can’t run all your tests. So we wrote a test suite class that runs all tests and can be run from Test::Unit:.

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Installing Ruby on Rails on Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)

Posted: Wednesday, September 7th, 2005    Tags: Howto, Ruby on Rails

I had a hell of a time getting Ruby on Rails to work on Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger). Here’s what ended up working for me.

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About Me

I'm a software developer and consultant in San Francisco. I mostly develop web apps in Javascript, Java and Rails. There's a little more about me on my LinkedIn profile.

Recent Projects

wshlst.com: a group-oriented wish list website.

BoardsConsult​/​RotationTracker: a site to help medical residents prepare for the U.S. Medical Licensing Exam, and a related site to help medical schools evaluate and track the progress of the residents in their programs.

Jobs

I moderate a few completely free jobs mailing lists with RSS feeds and zero spam: XP jobs, Rails jobs and Mac development jobs. Also, my pals at Pivotal Labs have agile Rails and Java job openings.

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