a view from afar

After a discussion today on rspec-users, I confirmed that it would be nice if you could structure specs like this, to break your behaviour descriptions down into related groups:

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describe MyClass do
  facet "my_method" do
    it "should do this" 
    
    facet "some stuff" do
      it "should do that"
    end
  end
  
  it "should do the other"
end

I assumed this would be really obvious but I had to scour the internet to find instructions.

I wanted to use the included server side highlighting, as described on the Mephisto wiki. It turns out, though, that the correct tag is "filter:code", eg:

If you haven't seen GetBundle, I recommend you give it a look. It makes it easier to browse and install the available bundles (based on what's in the MacroMates repo).

I noticed a couple of issues. If you have bundles checked out from another repo, or you have any bundles checked out with a recent version of Subversion (GetBundle includes its own svn binary), you may have issues.

Here is a modified version of the Update Installed Bundles command that (I think) plays nice in both these situations. I've posted to textmate-dev so hopefully will find out soon enough if it works as I think it does.

In reply to a post today on ruby-talk, I came up with this monkey-patch that lets you write long initialize methods in one line:

Well, kinda.

I've been following the Getting Things Done process for a month or so now, and it has pretty much transformed the way I work. I've bought pretty much every intray Tesco has had in stock - twice - and stacked up with foolscap files and white labels. I can say I am never wanting of anything from Staples, because I bought half the shop last time I was in there.

But the relatively small cash investment has already paid itself back in time at least five times over.

So, I was finishing off the list of programs I use on my Mac, which started off just as bullet-pointed plain text (I typed each program in as I installed it). This being the interweb, I figured it'd be a bit flash if you could click on the program names and be shown their web sites.

Half way down the page, doing this by hand, I got very bored.

Goal: I want to select a URL, select Shiira > Services > Markdown URL and have the title of the page at that URL used as the name of a Markdown link. (For some reason, I started using Markdown, not Textile.)

Easy? Well it is if you know how.

I thought this would be straightforward, but actually there are a couple of minor issues. (Updated with a tip on fixing the problem where moving focus back to the host machine would cancel dialog boxes.)