March 2012
1 post
Timelines with Redis
Another new rails project and another request for an activity feed/timeline of user activity. So I go looking on github for a gem to make this quicker and wonder if anything new has been published… timeline_fu - check, streama (for mongoid) - check, is that it? Time to roll my own… Introducing redis-timeline. A redis backed timeline for the next totally unnecessary inclusion of a...
Mar 7th
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.
Jan 19th
162 notes
3 tags
Youth Lagoon are making magic in my speakers →
Jan 10th
3 notes
August 2011
1 post
Aug 15th
May 2011
1 post
VibeDeck: Direct to fan music sales. 0% commission →
May 12th
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...
Mar 17th
10 notes
January 2011
1 post
Jan 19th
2 notes
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.
Nov 11th
2 notes
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...
Nov 5th
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...
Nov 3rd
Sparrow
paulyoung: Sparrow is like Tweetie for Gmail.
Nov 1st
1 note
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…
Sep 28th
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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...
Jun 14th
1 note
wycats git workflow →
Get rid of those merge commits
Jun 9th
RT @defunkt: Wow, http://github.com/cloudhead/http-console is really cool // love it
Jun 2nd
May 2010
1 post
The last 8 months of my life… http://bit.ly/aMfk4v @bandcentral launches
May 6th
April 2010
3 posts
dns problems.
Apr 28th
anyone got a dribbble invite going spare?
Apr 3rd
got my @getcloudapp account. UI is great.
Apr 1st
March 2010
6 posts
RT @tonysteward: This is good: OAuth access to IMAP/SMTP in Gmail http://tr.im/TTv9 #security #killpasswords /via @chrismessina
Mar 31st
Disappointed to miss scotrubyconf, sounds like it was a good one. Maybe next year.
Mar 29th
should have thought about stubbing stuff out earlier
Mar 22nd
tests for receiving xml posted to a url in my rails app are proving tricky.
Mar 22nd
wifi on this train is sllllloooowwww
Mar 22nd
RT @Croaky: subscription service for underwear, shirts, & socks. http://manpacks.com/packs // too funny
Mar 17th
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
Feb 8th
RT @merbist: Rails 3 beta is LIVE: gem install rails —prerelease /via @bitsweat
Feb 5th
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
Feb 2nd
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...
Jan 29th
10 notes
Jan 22nd
November 2009
3 posts
jcoglan's eventful at master - GitHub →
Nov 11th
tobi's clarity at master - GitHub →
Nov 4th
Brightbox Blog - Ruby on Rails Hosting – Queues... →
Nov 3rd
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.
Oct 29th
itteco's service_merchant at master - GitHub →
Modular SaaS Ruby toolkit.
Oct 28th
Jeff's Blog - ActiveHash is now much easier to... →
Oct 27th
thumblemonks's riot at master - GitHub →
I’m a sucker for new testing frameworks… go on then, I’ll give it a go.
Oct 26th
Chicago Boss - the no-nonsense MVC framework for... →
the best of rails + django using erlang. Sounds interesting. Should give this a try sometime.
Oct 26th
bjeanes's livedate at master - GitHub →
interesting
Oct 21st
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.
Oct 21st
Rails deployment made easy with Inploy | Diego... →
Oct 20th
August 2009
1 post
John Resig - HTML 5 data- Attributes →
More HTML 5 goodness.
Aug 18th
July 2009
6 posts
Ruby Invoicing Framework Gem →
Foundations for in-app billing
Jul 27th
rails testing with expectations →
Looks an interesting testing framework. Another one to check out.
Jul 23rd
XHTML 2 is dead... bring on HTML5 →
Jul 4th
Integrity | The easy and fun automated continuous... →
Jul 3rd
mapeed's addresschooser at master - GitHub →
Jul 3rd
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.
Jul 3rd
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…
May 16th
Going home
4 weeks till we go… its been a fast year.
May 11th