Well, I just got an iPhone, and I gotta say it’s one cool gizmo. Time will tell if the sexy creature will hold up or if the network will be sufficient (nobody has good things to say about AT&T’s coverage, but so far so good). But it’s definitely the most usable phone I’ve ever [...]
This morning, a bunch of us on Twitter got into a spontaneous conversation over that instant micro-blogging communication network about its application for conversations. I started it with two tweets (what a post to Twitter is called, or at least what I call it):
People who knock conversations on twitter forget that there’s not a [...]
Congratulations to my sis-in-law Kristal and John on their engagement! They’re great for each other and a hell of a lot of fun to have as relatives.
Tasha and I found out about it on Friday Saturday, which was also the date of a birthday celebration for John at Southside Plaza Bowl (I reviewed the [...]
One of my favorite live sets of music ever: Disco Biscuits on New Years Eve 1999. Trancefusion to the max (right before they broke up for a few months).
Enjoy courtesy of the wonderful Internet Live Music Archive.
So in my Rails apps lately I’ve been using the hell out of some RSpec. I have to say that it’s making me a better, more methodical coder. It’s not just allowing me to define my app in terms of expected behaviors and providing the well understood regression testing capabilities of any testing [...]
So I recently got to use Rick Olson’s attachment_fu in a Rails application I’m working on, and it is pretty awesome. It takes a lot of the hassle out of managing files that you might need to upload such as images, and even has the capability of doing thumbnails on the fly. Attachment_fu [...]
I’m at the CVREG meeting watching Jon give his presentation on GitHub, the new awesomeness that everybody (nerdy) is talking about. I’m still learning about it and figuring out how / why it’s different than Subversion, but look for a personal project on there soon.
git is a source code management system designed to make [...]
So the other day I was implementing what I considered a simple Rails association helper to make my life easier:
has_many :unapproved_posts,
:class_name => “Post”,
:finder_sql => “SELECT posts.* from posts ” +
”INNER JOIN users ON posts.user_id = users.id ” +
”INNER JOIN groups ON users.group_id = groups.id ” +
’WHERE (groups.id = #{id}) and ‘ +
’(posts.approved is [...]
So as somebody who has experienced their share of headaches deploying Rails apps (and ended up learning how to provision a VPS from scratch as a result) I’m interested in the questions Peter Cooper of Ruby Inside asks:
Is there / why isn’t there a version of mod_ruby that doesn’t have the “class sharing†issue? What [...]
Just had to post this because it was too perfect a shot not to.
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