Another thing we added to our new site, uploaded back at the end of December, was the ability to write our blog posts in Markdown, which is a text-to-html tool that allows you to write formatted text without actually having to write all the corresponding HTML. Markdown is used for the project wiki pages on GitHub, and can also be used for the project's readme file.
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Writing your blog posts in Markdown with Postmarkdown
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CoffeeScript: The '=>' operator
As you may know, I've been playing around with CoffeeScript for a couple of months now.
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The joy of writing CoffeeScript
I have been a fan of JavaScript for a while now, and I have dived into the CoffeeScript world for the last month or so.
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Rails 3.1 - Translating routes
Today, I was wondering if there would be a way to add translated routes automatically in Ruby on Rails. This is for a project I'm currently working on, whose users speak mostly spanish, so I want to make them happy with urls like "/contacto", "/quienes-somos" and "/trabajos/1" instead of "/contact", "/about-us", and "jobs/1".
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RubyMine vs Vim: my point of view
So, I tweeted a question earlier today about what editor is preferred by the rubyists and, although I didn't get many answers, it, combined with a recent discussion I had about RubyMine vs Vim later, helped me clear my reasoning a bit.
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