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Archive for the ‘Tools’ Category

July 17th, 2008

Firefox3 Quick Review!

In Episode #6 of The Spin Show, we talked about firefox3 and some of the new enhansments and fixs and we also discussed some add-ons which are big help for web developers
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Add-ons discussed in the podcast:

Firebug 1.2.0b6
Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of development tools at your fingertips while you browse. [...]

July 14th, 2008

Trying technology

One of the things that make our team enjoy working with the Internet is that every other month, a new technology, library or technique shows up under our radar; so, we get to try things really early, when they are far from being mainstream.

Of course, we don’t try new technologies just for the sake of [...]

November 25th, 2007

We love Macs

We are great fans of Mac computers, and just got some new Apple gear for the office. We got a couple of MacPros, an iMac, and Cinema Displays.

We are running Leopard in our super fast machines, and enjoying hacking like kids.

August 13th, 2007

Contributing back

We openly/proudly advertise that our main development tool is Ruby on Rails however, we never mentioned that our server runs on FreeBSD, our database server is MySQL, and we use tools like Subversion, CruiseControl.rb, Rcov, ZenTest, etc. We use so many open source products that we can’t even mention all here.

A few months ago, we [...]

January 12th, 2007

Rails UAE meeting #1: January 2007

Ruby on Rails has taken the development world by storm, and has been playing a big role in the new wave of web application development in North America and Europe. However, not much has been said about Ruby on Rails in the United Arab Emirates and in the Middle East.
We want to change that reality [...]