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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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I love this video:
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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 …
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So… Leopard came out on Friday. We stood in line for an hour or so at Utrecht’s A Mac. The “big unveiling” included T-shirts …
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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.* …
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I found an odd bug in Rails today. Odd, in the sense that it's not so much broken, as working in a way that's different than one would expect.
In a controller, one uses respond_to to present the appropriate response, as determined by the requested mimetype …
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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 …
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I'm not sure how it found it's way to me, but I received a bulk job solicitation this morning that included this gem:
We're not looking for a typical 9-5, Mon. - Fri. rails developer who believes in entitlement. Instead, we're looking for a rails developer …
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