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Oroville, CA, USA
Desktop
The projects used for Desktop
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GNOME
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My preferred desktop. I tried KDE, but was put off by the naming convention, not every name should start with 'K', in my opinion |
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Ruby on Rails
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Rails is what J2EE could have been if it hadn't grown out of control with too much stuff. 11,000 classes, ridiculous. Rails is clean and elegant, reflecting the Ruby heritage. Learn to program using convention rather than configuration. DRY |
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RubyGems
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The package manager for Ruby and Rails. Think RPM (Red Hat) or DEB (Debian, Ubuntu), and you will understand the what a GEM is. |
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GNU Compiler Collection
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Absolutely necessary if you are intent on building anything from source. |
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Mozilla Firefox
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This browser, in combination with Foxmarks Bookmark Synchronizer, Gmail and GSpace, provide a simple way to have my workspace stored on the web. I can quickly configure a desktop with my stuff on it. |
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Ruby
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What a nice language Ruby is. It reminds me of what I liked about Smalltalk (typeless and elegant), but without the downside of Smalltalk (massive environment, difficult to integrate with ANYTHING else). |
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Meld
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This is a really nice merging tool for managing different branches of a versioned project. It is simple to use and has a great graphical interface. Could be improved in some areas, but very useful as-is. |
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Mongrel
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Very useful lightweight web server for development purposes. I can run two or three rails apps in development mode, each on mongrel, on a single Ubuntu desktop, and debug SOA configurations. |
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OpenSSH
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SQLite
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