January 2012
2 posts
5 tags
MVC for Titanium →
I’ve dabbled with Titanium before, and it seems a handy platform for building mobile apps with. This may be a useful tool to use with it.
3 tags
Youth Lagoon are making magic in my speakers →
August 2011
1 post
May 2011
1 post
VibeDeck: Direct to fan music sales. 0% commission →
March 2011
1 post
5 tags
Appcelerator Titanium + Coffeescript + MVC
So I’ve been using Appcelerator’s mobile development framework, Titanium, lately, and overall the experience has been good.
The benefits of being able to make use of my Javascript knowledge to build a multi platform mobile app that runs natively are huge.
There are a few problems with it though when you’re coming from Ruby.
getting a testing framework to work with it is a...
January 2011
1 post
November 2010
4 posts
4 tags
Apache and Snow Leopard 10.6.5 upgrade glitch
I upgraded to 10.6.5 today and promptly discovered that I couldn’t restart Apache. I kept getting this error:
/usr/sbin/apachectl: line 82: ulimit: open files: cannot modify limit: Invalid argument
A quick search and I found this post and it worked for me.
5 tags
Passenger Error: The application spawner server...
I got this error this morning after I thought it’d be a good idea to migrate my new Rails 3 app to Ruby 1.9.2.
Kind of a weird error because it doesn’t seem that helpful on the surface.
Digging into the Apache error logs revealed this error mesage:
[BUG] cross-thread violation on rb_gc()
(null)
Ok, now we’re getting somewhere. This is an error due to gems being compiled...
Override a rake task
Today I ran into a problem where we have a company gem that includes a bunch of helpful rake tasks, one of which imports a production database into your dev db.
I wanted to do some stuff after this rake import task that was specific to the application I’m working on.
I first tried to overwrite the task, like you would do with any Ruby method. No dice though, this had the effect of...
Sparrow
paulyoung:
Sparrow is like Tweetie for Gmail.
September 2010
1 post
Bruce Williams: Rails IE Conditional Tag Plugin →
codefluency:
There are a number of ways to support defining different CSS styles for specific versions of Internet Explorer: Known CSS Hacks (ie, tricking the parser’s tiny brain with strange incantations)
Using IE-specific conditional comments around link tags to additional stylesheets
Applying…
June 2010
3 posts
5 tags
Scraping your own API
Ever wished that MySpace had an API for adding gigs to your band’s profile? If you view source on the add an event page on MySpace you might notice the url is prefixed with /API. Hmm, is this a sign of an impending release? Hopefully.
In the meantime you’ll need to roll your own.
You could use any of the current crop of libraries for http wizardry, RestClient or HTTParty maybe, but...
wycats git workflow →
Get rid of those merge commits
RT @defunkt: Wow, http://github.com/cloudhead/http-console is really cool // love it
May 2010
1 post
The last 8 months of my life… http://bit.ly/aMfk4v @bandcentral launches
April 2010
3 posts
dns problems.
anyone got a dribbble invite going spare?
got my @getcloudapp account. UI is great.
March 2010
6 posts
RT @tonysteward: This is good: OAuth access to IMAP/SMTP in Gmail http://tr.im/TTv9 #security #killpasswords /via @chrismessina
Disappointed to miss scotrubyconf, sounds like it was a good one. Maybe next year.
should have thought about stubbing stuff out earlier
tests for receiving xml posted to a url in my rails app are proving tricky.
wifi on this train is sllllloooowwww
RT @Croaky: subscription service for underwear, shirts, & socks. http://manpacks.com/packs // too funny
February 2010
3 posts
RT @rbates: We all should bite the bullet and move to Ruby 1.9 when we upgrade to Rails 3. http://bit.ly/cuWBm7
RT @merbist: Rails 3 beta is LIVE: gem install rails —prerelease /via @bitsweat
RT @bjeanes: “Software is one of those things that costs a fortune to write well, and double that to write poorly.” http://bit.ly/8Y0ATz
January 2010
2 posts
rails-upgrade: Automating a portion of the Rails 3...
omgbloglol:
I’ve been playing with upgrading some apps to Rails 3 (some open-source, some not), and I’ve sort of gotten some of the process down to a science. So what does a developer do when something is down to a process? Automate!
I’ve created a (pretty hacky) gem named rails-upgrade (installable by a simple gem install rails-upgrade) to automate some of the more annoying parts of the...
November 2009
3 posts
jcoglan's eventful at master - GitHub →
tobi's clarity at master - GitHub →
Brightbox Blog - Ruby on Rails Hosting – Queues... →
October 2009
8 posts
Raindrop
I downloaded the 0.1 code, installed it and gave it a go.
Like the idea. The code is as buggy as I expected a 0.1 release to be.
Definitely something to keep an eye on.
itteco's service_merchant at master - GitHub →
Modular SaaS Ruby toolkit.
Jeff's Blog - ActiveHash is now much easier to... →
thumblemonks's riot at master - GitHub →
I’m a sucker for new testing frameworks… go on then, I’ll give it a go.
Chicago Boss - the no-nonsense MVC framework for... →
the best of rails + django using erlang. Sounds interesting. Should give this a try sometime.
bjeanes's livedate at master - GitHub →
interesting
HTTP Client - Mac Developer Tool for HTTP... →
How have I only come across this now? Very useful tool, especially when testing consuming web services in my apps.
Rails deployment made easy with Inploy | Diego... →
August 2009
1 post
John Resig - HTML 5 data- Attributes →
More HTML 5 goodness.
July 2009
6 posts
Ruby Invoicing Framework Gem →
Foundations for in-app billing
rails testing with expectations →
Looks an interesting testing framework. Another one to check out.
XHTML 2 is dead... bring on HTML5 →
mapeed's addresschooser at master - GitHub →
Integrity | The easy and fun automated continuous... →
Addressing the issues
Facing up to the differences in international addresses in the latest app we’re producing at Eighty Industries.
A few of the implementations we’ve found so far:
Biggs
has_addresses
addresslogic
Let’s see if any of them fit the bill.
May 2008
2 posts
Garage Sale
Just wrapped up our first garage sale… wow, I never knew how many people would be interested… the main thing to remember at a garage sale is that no matter how cheap you offer an item for, the buyer always wants to haggle it cheaper…
Going home
4 weeks till we go… its been a fast year.
December 2007
2 posts
Everyone out of the water
So we’re at Palm Beach for the first time and within 10 mins a siren rings out and everyone gets out of the water… it was a shark alert. Found out after the shark was between 2.5 - 3.5m long. Check it out.