http://lifecoding.com/blog (define (life-coding life code) (organize life (using code))) Wed, 11 Jun 2008 03:29:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Stop reading here, it is no longer my hangout. All future posts are being made on TrotterCashion.com. It's ruby, nginx, and more fun. Enjoy. http://lifecoding.com/blog/2008/06/10/i-moved/ I'm a little late in mentioning this, but I recently spoke at RailsconfEurope about Rails Refactoring. It was a tutorial talk, and I thought that it went very well. I think the presentation is up on O'Reilly somewhere; I'll link if I can find it. Overall, the conference was really good. ... http://lifecoding.com/blog/2007/10/18/railsconfeurope-2007/ The speaker list has been announced for Gotham Ruby Conference (GoRuCo), and I'm happy to inform you that I'm one of the speakers. I'll be filling your brains with all sorts of information related to context, mocks, and stubs. The rest of the lineup is very strong; this looks like ... http://lifecoding.com/blog/2007/03/07/goruco/ Well, last Tuesday nyc.rb turned three years old. Of course, we were not content with just turning three, so we decided to start taping our presentations also (By we, I mean me, because I have a video camera and turned it on). Francis gave a testing clinic, while yours truly ... http://lifecoding.com/blog/2007/02/20/nycrb-turns-3/ The slides from my CRUD Presentation to nyc.rb are now up. Lee Nussbaum snagged the audio, so I'll sync that up over the next few days and post that too. If you've seen DHH's presentation, this one is pretty much the same thing. In fact, many of the slides ... http://lifecoding.com/blog/2006/07/25/crud-presentation/ Another day, another software problem. This time, I'm taking the advice of Zed Shaw and attempting to use gvim for my text editing. I'm currently using Textmate, but I change my editor about as often as I workout (aka every two months). Enough rambling, gvim has support for this ... http://lifecoding.com/blog/2006/06/19/grr-mac-os-x-and-ctags/ Though building sites with ssl is cool and gives your users a sense of security, configuring a webserver with ssl can be a royal pain. Thankfully, there's pound. Pound is a "is a reverse proxy, load balancer and HTTPS front-end for Web server(s)." Pound is dead simple to setup and ... http://lifecoding.com/blog/2006/06/09/how-to-make-pound-and-ssl-play-nice-with-os-x/ Well, this is basic css, but I'll throw it up here for those of you that don't know or have forgotten (I managed to forget the other day). If you have an element with 'float: left' or 'float: right' inside a div, the div will not be tall enough to ... http://lifecoding.com/blog/2006/06/05/css-tip/ As tempting as it is to use it for everything, the rails session should be used sparingly. In reading through the code for my current project, I noticed that we are using the session for storing return urls and query strings when doing login redirects. This is bad. Let's ... http://lifecoding.com/blog/2006/06/05/use-session-sparingly-or-the-benefits-of-flash/ Just a reminder when working with arrays of objects generated with Active Record. [Model.find(1), Model.find(2), Model.find(3)] - [Model.find(1)] != [Model.find(2), Model.find(3)] This does not behave as you would expect, because array subtraction compares elements on their object ids. Each find generates a new object, with a new id, so subtraction ... http://lifecoding.com/blog/2006/06/05/ruby-reminder-array-subtraction/