If I don’t write about iOS editors every few months, then it’s harder for me to justify continuing to mess around with them… The thing that’s changed my editor use in the last couple of months is iaWriter Mac and iOS adding iCloud support, even more deeply integrated than Apple’s...

The problem with sitting on these daily link posts is that the links go out of date. Sigh. Here are some links. # Twitter I found a couple of things about [this InfoQ article about Twitter’s infrastructure](http://www.infoq.com/articles/twitter-java-use) odd. I was expecting it to be a bit more of a Rails...

So, back in the summer when I started my bizarre quest to edit my book on the iPad, I had three requirements. - Be able to read the book files from Dropbox - Support for editing HTML/XML files, syntax coloring, extra keys, something like that. - TextExpander integration to make...

The latest in my unending attempt to find the perfect iPad text editor is [iA Writer](http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ia-writer/id392502056?mt=8) -- it's been just over a month since I [last wrote](/2010/08/18/elements-and-other-ipad-text-editor-stuff/) about this. iA Writer's "hook", as it were, is an entire [manifesto](http://www.informationarchitects.jp/en/writer-for-ipad/) about usability for writers. Writer's goal is to let the writer...

### Book Status RSpec chapter edits complete, a dozen or so errata squashed, and hopefully we'll get beta 7 out. I suspect it'll be after Labor Day, though. I'm pleased with how this one turned out. The RSpec chapter is a challenge -- I'm literally squeezing a book's worth of...

I have something like eight different apps on my iPad which are text editors or note takers of one form or another. Plus I know of at least one more that I'm waiting for. It's possible I have a problem. I really want to be able to use my iPad...

### Status Not much to tell, really. Spent some time getting RVM set up, since I think I'll need it to manage simultaneously building the Rails 2 and Rails 3. Now I have a working version of the startup appendix that uses Rails 3 and Devise. I can't speak to...

### Update Beta 4 of Rails Test Prescriptions is now available, with two new chapters, one on Rcov and coverage in general, and one on writing better tests. Buy [here](http://www.pragprog.com/titles/nrtest/rails-test-prescriptions). While I'm in the self-promoting mode, the book is also available for pre-order at [Amazon](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1934356646?ie=UTF8&tag=10prinhell-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1934356646) and other exciting locations. ###...

With my laptop still on the disabled list, I've been using the iPad as my primary machine all week. Some thoughts: Overall, it's been largely non-disruptive, for two reasons. One is that I borrowed a bluetooth keyboard for the duration, and the second is that I'm not in a position...

No links post this morning, maybe later today. Meantime, enjoy me blathering abouta a couple of substitutions in my iPad dock: Position: RSS Reader Incoming: Reeder Outgoing: NewsRack An easy call. NewsRack is nice, but Reeder is: - Smoking fast. - Without a limit on downloaded articles per feed -...

### iPad Note I keep wanting to write about the iPad, but so, so many other people are writing about it that I'm not sure I have anything to add. More or less at random, I really liked the brief rant Joe Posnanski added in the middle of an [otherwise-unrelated...

### Top Story [JRuby 1.5 is out](http://jruby.org/2010/05/12/jruby-1-5-0.html). Highlights include improved Rails 3 support, better support for Windows, better FFI support, better startup time (yay!) and a lot of other tweaks and fixes. ### Book Update Still Cucumbering, hope to finish today. The book is still [on sale](http://www.pragprog.com/titles/nrtest/rails-test-prescriptions), of course. And...

### Top Story / Book Update Beta 2 of Rails Test Prescriptions [is out](http://www.pragprog.com/titles/nrtest/rails-test-prescriptions). The biggest addition is the chapters on integration testing and Webrat/Capybara. Beta 3 will be coming next week and will include all or most of the Cucumber chapter. Please do post to [the forum](http://forums.pragprog.com/forums/140), there's not...

### Top Story MacRuby 0.6 [is out](http://www.macruby.org/blog/2010/04/30/macruby06.html). Big new features include a debugger, a new interface to Cocoa's Grand Central Dispatch, and a rewrite of the internals of basic Ruby classes. In a related story, the early text of Matt Aimonetti's MacRuby [book from O'Reilly is available](http://macruby.labs.oreilly.com/) for free online....

### Top Story For me, the top story is still [Rails Test Prescriptions on sale](http://pragprog.com/titles/nrtest/rails-test-prescriptions), and my discussion yesterday of the [raffle for the old Lulu customers](/2010/04/26/april-26-2010-for-all-you-lulu-customers/). ### Book Status Now re-doing the Cucumber chapter, which was written long enough ago that it didn't consider tags. Cucumber has had approximately...

### Top Story/Book Status This is the week -- Rails Test Prescriptions should go on beta sale on Wednesday. In a related story, railsrx.com now points to here, railsprescriptions.com also will shortly. I'll be adding some basic about information and static pages here. At some point, I'll probably bring over...

### Top Story As part of the Chirp conference, Twitter and the Library of Congress jointly [announced](http://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2010/04/how-tweet-it-is-library-acquires-entire-twitter-archive/) that the Library will be storing Twitter's entire public archive. I'm sure your expecting an easy joke about how many sandwiches the LoC now knows about in their archive, or about how scholarly...

### Top Story iPads. Lots of them popping up in and around work. Probably some more coherent impressions coming later. Wait, once again, Twitter has a big announcement after I start writing this. This time, they are going to start placing ads in the Twitter stream in various ways to...

iPad, iPad, iPad. Five Random Thoughts - Given that Apple's business model for most of the past 30 years has been not to compete on feature lists, but rather to pare down features in the name of user experience, that a tech analyst would at least pause before proclaiming the...