One of the Rails apps I’ve been working on formats times as HH:MM in the view. No seconds are displayed. This is a pretty common way to format things. When doing timestamp comparisons in SQL, however, the seconds are taken into account. This is bad since it can cause discrepancies … Continue reading
“Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best.” — Max Beerbohm
This year’s Ruby Hoedown is happening in Nashville again on September 3rd and 4th. I’m really looking forward to attending. The quality of the talks combined with the smaller attendance size makes for some great hallway conversations. Last year’s Hoedown was at the Opryland hotel which was a stellar venue. … Continue reading
I’m curious about something. If you’re an independent contractor, consultant or freelancer, are most of your projects one-time gigs or do they more frequently involve long term maintenance? There is a lot of different thinking out there about how to handle ongoing work: batch it up and get it done … Continue reading
“Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on, or by imbeciles who really mean it.” — Mark Twain
July 29th will mark the fifth anniversary of this blog. I realized today that I have never properly thanked you, my readers, for continuing to support this endeavor. There are so many other things you could be perusing, but you choose to patronize my humble programming blog. For that, I … Continue reading
This year’s RubyConf is being held in New Orleans on November 11th – 13th. Count me in. I’ve only driven through the area once so it’ll be interesting to make a longer visit. Although I’m ultimately keeping my fingers crossed for a Raleigh RubyConf one of these days. Hey, I … Continue reading
November 30, 2009: Rails 2.3.5 has just been released. I upgrade my production Rails apps and rock on. February 17 of this year: RubyGems 1.3.6 is released and my apps begin suffering from deprecation warnings. They’re all over the place: when I run a test, when I launch script/console… when … Continue reading
Lindo is great for verifying your Rails tests by opening the HTTP response body in a browser for inspection. It works with most popular testing frameworks including Test::Unit and RSpec. But what about Cucumber? It’s actually pretty easy to build a custom Cucumber step that triggers Lindo from your cukes. … Continue reading
For the past few months, I’ve been exploring the fascinating world of iPhone development. I have several application ideas and am working pretty hard on getting something to market. My first app will be free, though I hope to work up to a level where I can develop a solid … Continue reading