Fork jQuery! Introducing ukQuery…
July 26, 2011 § 2 Comments
At Mint Digital we’re always looking for the best tools out there to make our work more streamlined. We use Ruby on Rails to create a solid backend, GitHub for version control, and jQuery as our Javascript framework.
Having come from a company where we mostly used Dojo, I find the latter tool is sometimes quite confusing to work with.
Using Vim with Pathogen
July 18, 2011 § 7 Comments
Vim is my editor of choice. Vim is everywhere and has hundreds of plugins to allow you to do pretty much anything a text editor can possibly do.
The problem is, setting up Vim to use plugins is not the simplest thing to do. Enter Pathogen.
Pathogen is written by Vim plugin guru Tim Pope, it lets you isolate plugin scripts under their own directories. This means easy installs, uninistalls and upgrades.
Here’s a walk through about how to get this up and running:
Why why why why why are you a developer?
July 6, 2011 § 14 Comments