September 5th
It was a great final day of RailsConf. I think some of the best seminars were today. I was especially impressed by the Advanced RESTful Rails lecture. It really *was* advanced … i took loads of notes!
I had a really nice chat with Eleanor - it’s great to meet another female programmer who is as [...]
September 3rd
Today has been great and i have learned a whole lot. David Heinemeier Hansson did a very good talk this morning about legacy software, and our opinions of it. It was long and detailed but the basic message was: Don’t hate the code that you wrote a while ago. It hasn’t changed. Once upon a [...]
September 2nd
Okay, so the title is slightly exaggerated, but seriously, these guys are highly admired in our world! This morning, Geoffrey Grosenbach, well known for the excellent PeepCode tutorials, helped me with some Ajax stuff … and this evening i found myself in a lift with David Heinemeier Hansson, creator of Ruby on Rails!
I kinda looked [...]
September 2nd
I am sitting in the comfy sofas near the reception area of the Maritim ProArte Hotel in the middle of Berlin! Listening to soothing piped jazz music, and reflecting on the adventure so far!
I went to work as usual yesterday, and at 3pm we all packed up, piled into a taxi and took a plane [...]
August 28th
Before i started using TextMate i heard that some people switch to Macs just so that they can use TextMate! I didn’t believe a word of it … but now i am in that exact position! Ruby on Rails is so much easier to program in TextMate, particularly writing and running RSpec tests. Just to [...]
August 27th
Because scaffolding isn’t the answer to everything, i made a personal generator that churns out some CRUD actions with the RSpec tests that are just the way i like them.
Posted here mainly for reference by future-me but anyone else is welcome to use them too.
Generate Rails controller code
I find it’s particularly amusing if you enter [...]
August 4th
A reference for myself, and possibly for future people who may want to know how to do this.
Suppose you have a Git submodule, and you checked out a branch by its SHA1 ID because it had no branch name or tag where you want it. Later you want to know which SHA1 ID you checked [...]
July 12th
MyChores seems to be growing quite rapidly at the moment. I think it is receiving a bit of quiet promotion all around the internet. I was delighted when i saw it casually mentioned on familieswithpurpose.com:
… or try using an online chore organizer like MyChores to help get you organized.
Just like it’s one of those sites [...]
July 6th
Wow, i have been sooooooo busy lately, haven’t had time to write here even though i wanted to.
I know that almost every post i do write seems to be about my job, and this is no different. I am still loving it. I have realised that it is possible to write a successful web application [...]
June 21st
So i hear now is a good time to upgrade Ruby!
Unfortunately i downloaded 1.8.6 patch 230 and it gives an error trying to start up the web server. Does anyone know what this is about?
*** glibc detected *** double free or corruption (out): 0×0000000000daabc0 ***
Aborted
Looks like a C warning about memory deallocations or corruptions. I’m [...]
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