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Shoulda TextMate bundle
Dec 26th
FBI prepares vast database of biometric...
Dec 23rd
Tamarin
Dec 21st
“I will be prepared to take all of your questions and I would...”
— Albert L. Lord, new CEO of...
Dec 20th
Watch Watch
“Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?” by Rockapella Well she sneaks around the...
Dec 20th
Watch Watch
Larry Bird old jeans? You bet.
Dec 20th
“I think there are things wrong with Java, and every other...”
— Mike Burns
Dec 19th
What Amazon SimpleDB means for Rails apps
Dec 18th
Ooyala
Dec 18th
Pattern matching, S-Expressions, and External...
Dec 17th
Railroad lingo and slang
Dec 17th
Ribbit
Dec 17th

Rails tagged 2.0.2 (December 16th, 2007)

RAILTIES * Changed the default database from mysql to sqlite3, so now running “rails...
Dec 16th
Dec 14th
“It’s not the motorcycle maintenance, not the faucet....”
— Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art...
Dec 13th

Copernican revolution

Do a Copernican revolution: quality is the source of objects; objects are not the source of quality....
Dec 13th
“The Buddha, the Godhead, resides quite as comfortably in the...”
— Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art...
Dec 13th
Prevayler, object persistence library for...
Dec 13th
“Self-expression is dangerous when too much expression is...”
— Charlie LeDuff
Dec 13th
Piston
Dec 12th
Rails patch - Added tiny doc for rake routes
Dec 12th

Areas for improving ActiveResource...

* ActiveResource::CustomMethods::ClassMethods (custom_method_collection_url) *...
Dec 12th

Remove nasty Microsoft characters from...

Need to remove a smart quote or apostrophe? require 'iconv' # original_string = grab it from the...
Dec 11th

Ruby hooks

“A hook is a technique that lets you trap some Ruby event, such as object creation. The...
Dec 11th

Better integration tests with Ruby

While watching this talk by Dave Thomas, my ears picked up when he said you can use classic...
Dec 11th
Watch Watch
Run-DMC, “Christmas in Hollis”, circa 1987.
Dec 10th
Boston neighborhoods poster from http://orkposters.com
Dec 10th
"The pill" for men
Dec 9th
Olaf Henriksen, my great-grandfather.
Dec 8th

Bungee Connect

I went to a breakfast this week hosted by Bungee Labs, the creators of Bungee Connect, a cool...
Dec 8th
Evan Phoenix on Rubinius
Dec 8th
Watch Watch
“I’m so proud of you.” … The Swear Jar.
Dec 8th
Changes in Ruby 1.9
Dec 8th

Subversion tricks for Rails

“The -c switch in “script/generate any_generator -c blahblahblah” will...
Dec 8th
Best Practices for Speeding Up Your Web Site
Dec 6th
Watch Watch
“That’s it! The melody to Funky Town.” - Towlie
Dec 5th
““You, Mr. Wilkes, will die either of the pox or on the...”
Dec 5th
Rails access control code
Dec 5th
Watch Watch
They Might be Giants - “James K. Polk” In 1844, the Democrats were split The three...
Dec 4th
iPhone on Rails
Dec 4th
Publishing RubyGems with Hoe
Dec 3rd

Incentivizing Rails documentation

I just commented on Geoffrey Grosenbach’s post regarding the efforts of folks to improve...
Dec 2nd
The Rails Documentation Project
Dec 2nd

Home robots!

Oh, I desire thee, Roomba and Looj… in fact, I desire a whole army of robots at my beck and...
Dec 2nd
A tour through Merb's source code
Dec 1st
“In my personal track record, 2/3 of businesses made complete...”
— William Pietri
Dec 1st
Record screencasts on Mac OS X
Dec 1st

Personal goal ~ write a script that ...

Runs a Ruby ferret full text search engine on Merb, connects via Rails apps with Squirrel.
Dec 1st

Merb's required gems

Merb is hailed as small and great for fast data processing so I’m going to give it a whirl...
Dec 1st

Personal goal ~ write a script that ...

Mirror Angelo, Kevin, and Jason’s cool markup and style process (things like, “first...
Dec 1st