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I can tell that this title alone will irritate a lot of developers out there. It irritated me as well, until I figured out that sometimes, doing things the ‘wrong’ way is the best/only way. But let me get on with things. Every now and then, you will come across a scenario where you need to access something in the...
Just a quick tip I’ve come across while browsing through the comments on a Railscast_I’ve_been_watching. It looks like the I18n gems that get automatically installed with Rails 3 have a teensy bug. When storing a translation to the backend (be it YAML, Redis, whatever), there is an :escape option that can be passed to enable (or prevent) the key from...
Spree Hosted Gateway is my second ‘big’ extension - one of the ones that isn’t just adding one or two bits of nice functionality, but actually and end-to-end solution to add something that I think would be useful to a broad range of Spree developers (My first was spree-import-products, see my post on it here). Spree (for those of you...
Recently I’ve had to deal with a strange problem with rake tasks being run using Cron, a UNIX tool for running commands on a scheduled basis. The problem was basically the server being slowly strangled of resources across a forty to fifty minute time period, as each time the rake task was run it would leave an entire bash process...
OK,_So_I_Was_Wrong So I was just flipping through my archives of blog posts, when I found this_one my first ever post to Tumblr, where I vowed to stop posting enormously long essays on silly ideas I have to change the world. Oops. Sorry everyone!
Following an insanely interesting presentation by Steve Souders at Webstock, I began thinking about ways to simplify (i.e. automate) certain processes to optimize performance of sites. Something that immediately jumped out at me from early on in Steve’s workshop (So early, I was able to start coding in the halfway break), was that inline images were an ideal candidate for...
While working at 3Months as a developer, I am also completing a Bachelor of Business Information Systems at Victoria University. One of the things that rolls around twice a year and always causes students headaches is the signups system - it’s one of the bragging points of the School of Information Management at Victoria, as it was build as a project...
Tonight I’ve been playing round with Radiant - it looks really impressive as a content-management system, and I’ve been thinking about ways I can change it round to support vendors - that is, one person or organization offering Radiant as a service to multiple clients - basically, it would be one big Radiant application (to simplify administration and server maintenance),...
So I decided this evening to devote a couple of hours to giving back to Spree, after using the framework for a couple of work projects, and appreciating it for it’s flexibility and extensibility. I’ve developed an extension for Spree called Import Products. The source is based on a few bits of code that I have used for 2 projects...
Every now and then, you run into one of THOSE problems - inexplicable, and something it seems no one else has solved before you. This afternoon, I hit one of these. Basically, I had just installed RVM, Ruby_1.8.7 and Rails_2.3.8 - everything was working great - I could run a server just fine, and use the running site. Eventually though,...