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Ruby on Rails debugging with breakpoints

Posted on July 31, 2007 by hukl

I’m currently working on the software (called CCCash) which will be used to sell the tickets at the Chaos Comunication Camp 2007. During the development process we had a strange bug which we couldn’t really figure out. Pandur, who is also working on the software and who is more experienced than me in terms of […]

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Reading man pages in Preview.app

Posted on July 10, 2007 by hukl

This is a neat little command line to open man pages in Preview.app: man -t bash | open -f -a /Applications/Preview.app In fact its converting it to a PDF file. I just tried it and its a lot better to read and search than in the Terminal.app. Found on bitfever.de

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MacPorts Quicky

Posted on June 30, 2007 by hukl

If you ever wanted to know what ports are actually available through MacPorts check out their trac site at http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/browser/trunk/dports That’s it for now.

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Safari for Windows supports color profiles and remote execution

Posted on June 12, 2007 by hukl

The good news is that Safari for Windows also supports color profiles which is a feature that no other browser has. This is really cool because when you post a picture to the internet, lets say with you cameras color profile attached, it looks very different than in Photoshop. This is because all the other […]

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Great Stuff, being able to type utf-8 characters in a Terminal on OS X!

Posted on June 6, 2007 by hukl

I know what you are thinking: »Those poor OS X users with their mutilated unix user land. I wrote about the ancient version of locate that OS X ships with, now this also applies to the standard shell, bash. OS X ships with version GNU bash, version 2.05b.0(1)-release, which just like locate has poor or […]

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