Learn Rails Quickly with the Flitter screencast
The Flitter screencast series by Eric Berry (Teach Me to Code) is perhaps one of the best screencasts for learning Ruby on Rails quickly. It is a 6 part series and goes through the entire process of creating a Twitter-like clone in Rails. Perhaps the best thing about the screencast is that it is largely [...]
Fonts
Software Development Fonts Consolas is my favourite development font. It is also the one that Jeff Atwood uses. Also check out his article on Programmer Fonts for some other good development fonts. Consolas comes with Microsoft Visual Studio 2005+ but who’s going to install that to get a font? You can get the font here. [...]
JAVA_HOME Sickness
While attempting to install Grails on Windows, I kept getting the following error when running grails: C:\Users\praj> grails ERROR: JAVA_HOME is set to an invalid directory: C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jdk1.6.0_17\ Please set the JAVA_HOME variable in your environment to match the location of your Java installation. I had the JAVA_HOME variable set as a system environment [...]
Starting and Stopping Processes with a Batch Script
This post explains how to write batch scripts in Microsoft Windows to start and stop a particular program. This can be really handy if you want to schedule a program to start and stop at particular times using the Task Scheduler. The following batch script will start a program in a given directory in minimised [...]