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 NYC Standup 8/24/2011: iTerm Time Machine
edit Posted by Andrew Fader on Wednesday August 24, 2011 at 06:46AM

Interesting Things

  • Ben discovered that Cmd+Opt+B is a magical time machine for iTerm, complete with a scroll bar for traveling back and forth in the buffer. He was quick to point out that this feature, cool as it is, will not actually send the user back in time.

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 NYC Standup 8/23/2011: Alias_attribute, AWS memcache, Syck
edit Posted by Andrew Fader on Tuesday August 23, 2011 at 06:15AM

Interesting Things

  • Ian and Ben pointed out that alias_attribute, a little-known Rails helper, can be used to alias a method for an ActiveRecord attribute. Alias_method will not work for this purpose.
  • JT informed us that Amazon Web Services has debuted a new memcache tool known as ElastiCache.
  • Micah added that Google has announced an open source version of the Chromium browser for Android.

Ask for Help

  • Nick was having problems with installing Lobot, a Pivotal gem to automate the creation of continuous integration (CI) instances. He was getting an error pertaining to syck parsing of a gemspec. Lee had seen this bug before, which relates to the strictness of YAML parsing in Syck versus Psych.

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 NYC Standup 8/22/2011: GroupMe Acquisition, RVM 1.7
edit Posted by Andrew Fader on Monday August 22, 2011 at 08:10AM

Interesting Things

  • GroupMe was acquired by Skype. Congratulations GroupMe!
  • RVM 1.7 came out last week, with some big changes. The execution of the .rvmrc file in your project after a cd into the directory no longer happens by default.

Events

  • NYC.rb hackfest Tuesday
  • Node.js meetup Wednesday