Beginning a few years ago, there have been a few projects – Rhino, Jaxer, more recently Narwhal – that proclaimed we were about to enter a golden era of server-side JavaScript programming. But the implementations always seemed to fall …
So I need to generate a PDF, using data coming out of a Rails-based app. I started looking at Prawn and Prawnto, but I need to prepend the PDF with some boilerplate material, ideally another PDF. In other words, I'd like to programmatically generate …
As of about 15 minutes ago, the blog engine here is a brand new rewrite of what was before. The new system may not look much different on the surface, but it's all new underneath — and hopefully a lot easier to make gradual improvements, going …
I've been thinking lately about how many of the talks at tech conferences are bizarrely impractical_. For a counter-example, Rands has this seemingly un-radical suggestionseconds.html
This is the presentation I want to see at the next conference: in a …
For the past few days, I've subscribed to the excellent Song of the Day podcast at KEXP. I wanted to move the "good ones" to my iTunes Library, but unfortunately, iTunes does some odd things with podcast files, so this isn't as easy as you might guess.* …
In general, I really like the way Ruby handles class inheritance & module mix-ins. But, recently, I found an odd behavior - maybe a bug? - in Ruby 1.8.6 (the Ruby shipping with Leopard) when using alias_method and super inside an included module …