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I’m a heavy tabbed browsing user – I have around 30 tabs open in my day-to-day Firefox profile all the time. Since the day Firefox 3 was released, I’ve noticed Firefox progressively getting slower with this particular Firefox profile (I use a different profile for web development). When it got to the point where changing ...
I’m a heavy tabbed browsing user - I have around 30 tabs open in my day-to-day Firefox profile all the time. Since the day Firefox 3 was released, I’ve noticed Firefox progressively getting slower with this particular Firefox profile (I use a different profile for web development). When it got to the point where changing ...
A few days ago I noticed that some of the pages on the Hotels app on wego.com were completely unstyled. They turned out looking rather Jakob Nielsen-istic:But we were attached to our ugly shade of green to leave those pages in their naked glory. Preliminary CSI work told me that some cached stylesheets generated by ...
A few days ago I noticed that some of the pages on the Hotels app on wego.com were completely unstyled. They turned out looking rather Jakob Nielsen-istic:But we were attached to our ugly shade of green to leave those pages in their naked glory. Preliminary CSI work told me that some cached stylesheets generated by ...
Something I noticed completely by accident today when I clicked on the titlebar of QuickTime Player today with the Cmd key held down. The “titlebar” is this thing here - I’m not sure that’s the right name for it:Anyway, if you hold down the Cmd key (aka the Apple key), a menu pops up that ...
You may have heard of it, but just in case, Living on the Edge is now going to be published on the official Ruby on Rails weblog. Big thanks to Gregg Pollack for getting me the “new” gig and more importantly, for reviving and freshening up the content on the official Rails blog.Catch the new ...
Day 1 of RailsConf 2008 was basically tutorial day (schedule) and started with my colleague here with me, Arun, missing out on Yoga on Rails and me sleeping until the first tutorial session. Anyway, I snapped some photos while trying to remain the unobtrusive tourist.Here’s a shot of Portland Convention Center where it’s all happening:There’re ...
No mind-blowing changes in Rails this week prior to RailsConf - as Gregg mentioned last week in the Rails Envy podcast, it’s pre-2.1 days (Rails 2.1 will probably be released at RailsConf) so it’s pretty easy to see why. Oh and all Rails tests now pass in Ruby 1.9 after a long-standing #module_eval bug got ...
Juan Lupión wrote in to inform me that he’s also translating my Living on the Edge (of Rails) series of blog posts to Español. Thanks Juan!
It’s another slow week (just 2 changes of note imho) after the release of the 1st Release Candidate (RC1) of Rails 2.1. Follow that link for installation instructions - though if you’re reading this blog post you probably don’t care! (because you’re, you know, “living on the edge”). Cheesiness aside, be sure to report any ...
Some notes on setting up a gateway server for deploying via Capistrano that I couldn’t find at the source.You can specify the user you want to use to login to your gateway server like so: set :gateway, 'deploy@deploy.example.com'. This logs in to your gateway server as the “deploy” user.You can specify an alternate SSH port ...
This week’s report covers changes from 5th May 2008 to 11th May 2008 (the day the corresponding Rails Envy podcast was recorded).script/dbconsoleA script/dbconsole script has been added th …
This week’s report covers changes from 29 April 2008 to 4th May 2008 (the day the corresponding Rails Envy podcast was recorded).change_table for ActiveRecord migrationsThanks to Jeff Dean …
So we’ve been terribly busy at Bezurk these last 2 months or so working on our new re-branded site with a bunch of new features. We were lucky enough to secure a 4-letter domain name - wego.com (and it came at a price too!) so it was all worth it. Trust me, with a name ...
It looks like Cyril Mougel has translated my 2 latest posts to French: LotE #17 and #18. Thanks Cyril!
This week’s report covers changes from 21 Apr 2008 to 27 Apr 2008 (the day the corresponding Rails Envy podcast was recorded).Not much interesting to report this week - there were mostly a …
If you’ve ever used ActiveResource or for that matter, coded anything that involves interacting with a remote API, you’ve probably had the misfortune of having that API go down or become responsive. The experienced old geezers would already have forseen the problem and set a timeout on those API calls. For the rest of us, ...
Not much going on this week on edge Rails. It does seem however that we do have a new Rails core member, Joshua Peek. Also, the new Rails’ bug tracker hosted on Lighthouse is ready f …
See this.history | awk '{a[$2]++}END{for(i in a){print a[i] " " i}}' | sort -rn | head4605 cd3576 svn2141 ls1701 ruby1308 cap21066 ss978 rake867 sshb688 rm635 matecap2 is just my alias for Capistrano 2 (I use both 1.x and 2.x, since I’m lazy to upgrade some old Rails applications, ss is my alias for script/server. sshb ...
A slight change this week since Rails has moved to Git - all changesets are now referenced to Github.This week’s report covers changes from 7 Apr 2008 to 13 Apr 2008 (the day the correspon …
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