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I am making the conversion from PC to MAC and wanted to know what options do I have to still develop websites. I usually create websites with c# but besides C# what other options do I have on the macintosh?
MAC is even better environment for development (web) than Windows. It is because it is nix. I used PC for years and I feel more comfortable on MAC. For example you can manually set working environment for PHP (appache, mysql) with ease, and you have more control with everything you do. Mac, by default, comes with installed Python, so you can easily create your web working environment. There is also Ruby etc.
Git + Editor(Textmate, Sublime) + Web = Perfect combination.
I would say that Ruby (Ruby on Rail) is pretty common. You still have PHP, Python too.
If you want some example try CodeCademy or CodeSchool
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We all know that Puppet and Chef are the superstars of the IT automation area, and they are developed in Ruby (though Chef 11 server was rewritten in Erlang).
In my working environment, a very large group of the operations team uses Python as the primary language to develop operation tools or basic system applications.
I want to find why both Puppet and Chef were written in Ruby? What are the advantages? Ruby supports DSLs well. Can Python do such thing?
From Luke Kanies, Puppet’s author:
I was a sysadmin by trade and had mostly developed in perl, but when I
tried to write the prototype I had in mind, I couldn’t get the class
relationships I wanted in perl. I tried Python, because this was
around 2003 and Python was the next new thing and everyone was saying
how great it is, but I just can’t seem to write in Python at all. A
friend had said he’d heard Ruby was cool, so I gave it a try, and in
four hours I went from never having seen a line of it to having a
working prototype. I haven’t looked back since then, and haven’t
regretted the choice.
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I would like to know if its posible to create a desktop application with ruby and the disadvantages,
please can you give me a example? a application to use in windows
thanks
Yes you can, Sir!
The disadvantages are like there might be some difficulties doing advanced stuff for interfaces but I'm just guessing as I have no experience at all in this field.
Take a look at some solutions you have:
http://shoesrb.com
https://github.com/larskanis/fxruby
https://github.com/maccman/bowline (this one I just found it now and seems interesting, BUT it's not maintained anymore :/)
http://macruby.org (for OS X only)
http://www.rubymotion.com (paid and OS X only)
Other I can think of is using Java Swing with JRuby
Also you might want to take a look at this -> http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Ruby_Programming/GUI_Toolkit_Modules
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Can I create a custom operating system that supports both Windows and Linux applications?
How can I do that and what knowledge should I have?
Is this a good start?
Thanks.
This can kind of be done though using Linux and Wine however it is not perfect.
The issue is Windows is not open source and is VERY big so it is not very easy to perfectly emulate what that operating system is doing behind the scenes. This is especially hard with undocumented API calls many programs like to use on Windows.
I do not know of anything that lets you run Mac on Linix without using a VM.
It is very unlikely there will ever be "one OS to rule them all" but with tools like Wine and using virtualization with things like VMWare's Unity Mode to give the affect of another OS's program running on your system.
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Are there any free Mac OSX IDEs for SQLite that you would recommend? I've seen some answers on SO from 2009 and 2010, but nothing recent. If the SQLite manager for Firefox is still the one to go with, great, I'll try it. I was just wondering if something else has come along since then that people like more. There's nothing specific I'm looking for in terms of capabilities, just a tool that's as reliable, user friendly, and as full featured as possible.
Typically I use Firefox plus the SQLite Manager Extension.
Not free, but I use Navicat Premium as a front end for MySQL, Postgres, SQlite, MS SQL, Oracle.
I have a real love/hate relationship wiht Navicat - it's full featured and generally works well, but the doesn't adhere well to Mac UI standards.
Hope that helps, at least a little.
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I'm looking for a substitute for Wordpress and Squarespace that's implemented in Ruby. It can be a Rails app, a Rails plugin, or a standalone static page generator. The most important features we're looking for is that it comes with a selection of nice looking themes and is easy to set up.
I've used Typo in the past with success. It's written in Ruby, is reasonably active and can be installed as a gem. It comes with a default theme and there are a bucket full of themes available at Typogarden.
The most popular weblog engine written in ruby from its earlier days is tdiary (github, sourceforge). It is developed in Japanese, and there is not much English documentation, though. But there is an English mailing list.