Archives for June, 2007

Morning Brew #47


Another cup of fresh Rails and not so Rails brew. If you’d like to send in a link, please use this page.

Rails

will_paginate - a new Railscast. Noobkit was mentioned in #49.

Web Development

Design Friendly Select Elements in Safari 3 - Safari 3 only marginally messes up Noobkit. Guess I will have to add CSS specificaly for [...]

iPhone as the next mobile platform?


I’m currently in San Francisco and have a flight back to Toronto in 5 hours. I’m considering trying my luck at picking up an iPhone even though there would be no service for me in back in Canada. The reason why I want to do that is simple - I believe that iPhone will become [...]

Morning Brew #46


Another cup of fresh Rails and not so Rails brew. If you’d like to send in a link, please use this page.

Ruby

Condition Builder 1.1 - a cute way to construct SQL conditions.

Web Development

Deploy any project using Capistrano 2.
google-diff-match-patch - JavaScript library for Diff, Match and Patch.

Misc

Life at Google - The Microsoftie Perspective - I have [...]

Morning Brew #45


Another cup of fresh Rails and not so Rails brew. If you’d like to send in a link, please use this page.

Rails

Ruby on Rails - Public AMIs - Deploying to EC2 gets a little easier. Still, cheap as ever.
mirRoR - another Rails jobs site. Love the look.

Web Development

Safari/WebKit has a new Web Inspector.

Re: The Apple approach


This is a response to The Apple approach (aka first impressions of the MacBook Pro) post by Antonio Cangiano. I started typing this in comments section on his blog first, but thought this would fit well into my own “Switching to Mac” series.
Antonio Cangiano writes:
Virtually everything that can be accomplished on a Mac with TextMate, [...]

Morning Brew #44


Another cup of fresh Rails and not so Rails brew. If you’d like to send in a link, please use this page.

Rails

Confirming HTTP methods.
Multisite plugin for Rails.

Ruby

Ferret DRb and sorting.

Web Development

Web app autopsy - an awesome write up about application maturity vs. code.
Testability Costs Too Much and Human-to-Human Design - two new articles on A [...]

Morning Brew #43


Another cup of fresh Rails and not so Rails brew. If you’d like to send in a link, please use this page.

Rails

Code Digest #2 - RJS errors and more.

Ruby

Automating Excel with Ruby: Formatting Worksheets.
Sake bomb - system wide rake tasks.

Morning Brew #42


Another cup of fresh Rails and not so Rails brew. If you’d like to send in a link, please use this page.

On the plane… This feels almost like Twitter.

Morning Brew #41


Another cup of fresh Rails and not so Rails brew. If you’d like to send in a link, please use this page.

Rails

A better date/time picker - an alternative to datetime_select(). It’s ugly, does exactly the same thing, but in a better way.

Ruby

dcov - clever named documentation coverage tool (via).
Console applications with ActiveRecord.

Switching to Mac #2


I have installed Ruby and Rails and the whole stack. Sadly, I haven’t had a chance to do any Rails development after yet because I have to do some Flash development to pay for the Mac. Yes, I’m actually a full time Flash developer by day.
To continue with my series of “switching to mac” posts, [...]