Yeah, but the UTF warnings bug me, and I can't use all my nice project-specific ack settings (ignoring compiled assets, documentation, --no-flash etc). I get by with keeping a couple terminal sessions open at all times, it's necessary with Rails coding anyway :)
The OOP parts in the PHP manual haven't been given anywhere near enough care and attention than the old bits. Unless it's core functionality, good luck finding decent doc for the extensions listed.
Class:nameOfFunction - *the Name of Function purpose*
Some of the SPL classes are equally amusing, especially when you get as far as `RecursiveIteratorIterator` and, to recursively scan a directory (OOP stylee):
$iterator = new RecursiveIteratorIterator(new RecursiveDirectoryIterator('/path/to/directory'), RecursiveIteratorIterator::SKIP_DOTS);
Now I make use of that and, syntax aside, it's pretty handy for the stuff you get back from it, but for the best part some of these PHP extensions are a waste of time. There's bugger all documentation and, quite often, they're missing basic methods that you can already do procedurally.
Why would anyone want to spend time figuring out this framework extension, or the OOP PHP stuff like SPL and Imagick, with no documentation, when there are plenty well established ones out there that have mountains of it?
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I make daily use of GitX for visualizing the state of a repo, and it's got a pretty nice UI for building commits as well. (It's Mac-only, though.) Apparently there are several forks that have added new functionality on top of the version I use, but I'm comfortable enough at the command line now that I haven't bothered checking any of them out.
For those who enjoyed this talk, Corey Donohoe gave an awesome presentation at Cascadia RubyConf that goes into more detail about what they use Hubot for, and also mentions deploying branches to a subset of their boxes. It was one of the best talks of the conference: http://confreaks.net/videos/608-cascadiaruby2011-shipping-at...
I moved to Portland from California in 2001. I love it here, and can't imagine ever moving back. That being said, the big adjustment for me (and for many folks moving from further south) isn't the rain. It's that the days are so much shorter in the wintertime, and even when the sun is technically up, you can't see it through the cloud cover.
It's easy to love Portland in the summer (and, having grown up in Sacramento with weeks of temperatures over 110 degrees, I was very surprised to discover that I actually like summer now). The real test is whether you still love it in the middle of your second or third winter. ;>
Another Sactown => PDX refugee here. Pretty much love the weather year round. But I loved Sacramento's rainy winters, so I'm likely wired that way. It's taken a while to adjust to the idea that summer is a season where you actually go outside instead of hiding indoors with a/c.
I resonate with the "filthy and dilapidated" comment though. I blew off Portland as a dirty industrial town for a lot of years before moving here. It still has a lot of that heritage, and if you're from a place that constantly tears things down and rebuilds, you likely won't understand it here.
