Up North

I’m really excited to see how well the Ruby (on Rails) community have received Git. A big reason is probably the awesome service GitHub but there are several other goodies coming out from the Rubyists.

Yesterday I blogged about the GitCasts and today I learned about Gitjour. It’s a tool to announce and make available repositories over Bonjour so that you can list and clone repositories available on the local network.

To serve a repository simply call:

$ gitjour serve
Registered gringo.  Starting service.

You can then list and clone it with:

$ gitjour list
Gathering for up to 5 seconds...
=== gringo on Tabasco.local. ===
  gitjour clone gringo

Stumbled over the site GitCasts which publishes regular screencasts about using Git. Should be worth a look for anyone who which to learn more about Git.

http://www.gitcasts.com/

For quite some time I’ve been meaning to setup a working solution for shared calendars at Imendio. This lead me to try out Google Calendar which is an excellent service from Google. What is more interesting is that Thunderbird/Lightning and Sunbird comes with support to work against your Google Calendar (through a plugin) with synchronizations both ways. For users of Mac OS X iCal there are GCaldaemon (haven’t tested) and Spanning Sync (non-free).

Another option if you are more or less always online is to use Mozilla Prism (scroll down to Prism) to setup a separate “browser” for a specific web application.

Setting up Prism is dead simple and you just have to download a package for your operating system (works on Linux, Mac OS X and Windows). Unpack it and run the prism application. You will then get a dialog to setup your web application:

Once you click OK you will get a new windows showing just your web application and a launcher on the desktop (only option on Linux right now). Preferably this launcher could place itself in the menu but just drag it to the panel if you wish.

Voila! Your very own “application” for Google Calendar.

This is also a great solution if you like me use several different accounts at Google and want to stay logged into all at the same time.