Free Listable iPhone App Available in App Store
My latest iPhone app, Listable, is now available on the App Store. I started working on Listable a couple of months ago after I looked all over the App store for a shared ToDo list application that...
View ArticleIn the Kitchen: What’s behind Clean.ly
The App that I submitted for the NYC BigApps contest has been getting some attention after it was mentioned in Wired and I wanted to write about the technology that I used to create it. The core of...
View ArticleRails 3.0 upgrade: Watch out for differences in mass assignment checks on...
Please see comment below – looks like this has been taken care of in Rails 3.0.1. While porting a small Rails application, Listable, to Rails 3.0, I found an interesting difference in the behavior of...
View ArticleNYC.rb talk: Scalable web site anti-patterns
This evening I gave a brief talk on ‘Scalable web site anti-patterns’ to the NYC.rb meetup. You can download the slides from the discussion. Tomorrow, I’ll be giving the full version of this talk on...
View ArticleNYC Amazon Web Services Meetup Talk
I just finished giving a talk to the NYC Amazon Web Services meetup. I enjoyed talking with those attending, and learning from Matt Tavis, an AWS Solutions Architect, who also presented on AWS’...
View ArticleIntroducing ‘propel’: push to your project the right way
Update: I’m not using this gem any more, since it doesn’t work well with feature branches and pull requests, which we currently depend on for our daily workflow. At Stack Builders, we’re big on...
View ArticleEasy application-wide SSL configuration in Rails 3.2
Rails 3.1 offers a handy way to secure your entire application behind https: just add config.force_ssl = true in your environment configuration file, and all requests will be directed to https. Under...
View ArticleRailblazer: how Stack Builders runs Rails apps under Continuous Integration
Stack Builders, the Ruby on Rails consultancy that I started, runs all of their projects under Continuous Integration (CI). While we’ve tried a bunch of different Continuous Integration servers and...
View ArticleCommon Rails Testing Mistakes
As developers, we agree that we want to spend our time developing features that deliver value to our projects. Testing should be a tool that helps us to focus on the features that matter, while giving...
View ArticleMoving beyond mixins
Mixins (modules in Ruby) are a way of re-using code across classes. I think that rather than just being a light-weight way to share code, they add complexity to software projects by undercutting some...
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