On the Floor

I was reading about operator precedence in ruby the other day and noticed that the "and" and "or" operators are NOT the same as the && and || operators.   They are actually about 6 levels of precedence below && and ||, meaning that there is a lot of stuff that gets processed before "and" and "or" become relevant. This means that your logical expressions can become a little more readable by using a mix of the two kinds of logical operators. Read more...

I recently decided to give up on NetBeans as my editor/IDE for my rails development as it was bogging my system down too much.   It, coupled with 20 open tabs in Firefox, and my countless desktop widgets were making my system unusable.   Rather than cut back on widgets, I've decided to give Textmate another shot, and have been really happy with it, after an initial period of adjustment. Read more...

The CBC nightly news in Toronto recently did a short piece on the GeoTrail website, check it out below! Read more...