2014-05-12T08:31:27-07:00 http://www.elonflegenheimer.com/ Elon Flegenheimer 2014-05-11T00:00:00-07:00 http://www.elonflegenheimer.com/2014/05/11/nvidia-dual-monitors-ubuntu-laptop Setting up a modern xorg.conf with the binary NVIDIA driver to be used with xrandr. 2013-10-01T00:00:00-07:00 http://www.elonflegenheimer.com/2013/10/01/ruby-prototyping Prototyping in Ruby is even faster with inlined test driven development. 2013-09-28T00:00:00-07:00 http://www.elonflegenheimer.com/2013/09/28/minitest_ruby_on_rails4 How to set up minitest-spec for both Ruby and Ruby on Rails 4 projects while preserving vim-rails shortcuts. 2013-02-17T00:00:00-07:00 http://www.elonflegenheimer.com/2013/02/17/mtp-and-usb-on-the-android-nexus-4 A short script to enable USB access to an Android device using MTP. 2012-12-31T00:00:00-07:00 http://www.elonflegenheimer.com/2012/12/31/ruby-unit-test-visibility-via-xmonad I've been using the Xmonad accordion layout to get Ruby test/rspec notifications visible at a glace. 2012-12-25T00:00:00-07:00 http://www.elonflegenheimer.com/2012/12/25/git-feature-branches How to use Git feature branches 2012-12-24T00:00:00-07:00 http://www.elonflegenheimer.com/2012/12/24/renaming-a-chef-node Renaming a Chef node step by step. 2012-09-16T00:00:00-07:00 http://www.elonflegenheimer.com/2012/09/16/navigating-ruby-projects-in-vim Navigating Ruby and Ruby on Rails projects in VIM involves learning a number of things that aren't in the manual. This post is intended to shorten the learning curve. 2012-08-25T00:00:00-07:00 http://www.elonflegenheimer.com/2012/08/25/ruby-modules-template-and-dynamic-closure-context Ruby: Applying closures to the context of a caller via Modules and the template design pattern. 2012-07-28T00:00:00-07:00 http://www.elonflegenheimer.com/2012/07/28/detaching-bash-and-going-home How to keep a long running process alive when you're ready to pack up and go home. 2012-07-08T00:00:00-07:00 http://www.elonflegenheimer.com/2012/07/08/understanding-ruby-closures While closures are usually associated with functional languages, Ruby has them in the form of blocks, procs, and lambdas. These concepts are a powerful feature that must be mastered to be successful using this language. 2012-06-22T00:00:00-07:00 http://www.elonflegenheimer.com/2012/06/22/xmonad-in-ubuntu-12.04-with-unity-2d I've been using xmonad in ubuntu for quite a while. The change from 11.04 to 12.04 involved the following steps. 2012-06-22T00:00:00-07:00 http://www.elonflegenheimer.com/2012/06/22/ubuntu-server-virtualbox-guest-additions Installing virtualbox guest additions is not an optional step if the guest is an Ubuntu server that needs to interact with other networked machines. Here's how to quickly install it. 2012-06-06T00:00:00-07:00 http://www.elonflegenheimer.com/2012/06/06/dynamic-multi-head-laptop-in-ubuntu-with-nvidia Setting up a dynamic multi-head display under Ubuntu (11.04, 11.10, 12.04) with an NVIDIA video card in a laptop. 2012-06-03T00:00:00-07:00 http://www.elonflegenheimer.com/2012/06/03/justifying-ruby-on-rails-as-your-web-framework Ruby on Rails is easy to justify as your next web application framework. Reasons include: Ruby, maturity of the framework, TDD, JRuby, and several time savers. 2012-05-26T00:00:00-07:00 http://www.elonflegenheimer.com/2012/05/26/what-i-like-about-ruby An explanation of what I like about the Ruby programming language. Interesting features include: blocks, messages, singleton classes, pure object system, a rich API, and an active community. 2012-05-25T00:00:00-07:00 http://www.elonflegenheimer.com/2012/05/25/blogging-with-jekyll-and-s3 Choosing Jekyll and S3 as my blogging platform instead of Ruby on Rails, Sinatra, Wordpress, etc... How to run Jekyll, add Twitter Bootstrap, and deploy to S3.