I’m not sure if this is all black magic or what, but the process seems to be pretty undocumented around the ‘net. I’d like to make a nice drag-n-drop installer for the new syncPeople on Rails Bundle. Something with a nice background image, and an internet-enabled bit so it opens right up in Safari.

So far, the only two good links I’ve found to creating a Disk Image with a picture background are:

• MindVision’s FileStorm
• Decaffeinated’s Helpful but Mildly Offensive Instructions

Still looking for that ultimate “Free, Instantaneous and Perfect” product…

Isn’t it great when you find some time to work on a project you’ve been meaning to do for a while?

Following the 0.5 release and the 0.6 release, the “syncPeople on Rails” TextMate bundle has reached version 0.7. Here are the feature updates:

New Features

Enhanced TODO List

This was a gem I picked up from the TextMate mailing list that we’ll be using at syncPeople. Basically it gathers all of your TODO, FIXME, and CHANGED messages from all of your project files and color codes them in a nicely formatted HTML window. In addition, you can turn any of the categories on and off if you need to focus on one aspect or the other in your work flow. Replaces the old TODO list with ctrl-shift-t.

Note: You may have to turn off the old TODO list key combo in your commands.

New Intelligent Go To File Contexts

Hitting the ‘enter’ key is even smarter: it will now visit javascript and stylesheet files. For example, clicking on any of the following formats will take you to the javascript or stylesheet: