Code Notes

A few problems we’ve solved in our day to day work:

• Enterprise 29 Jan 2013
• Three Chef Gotchas 27 Nov 2012
• Bash Startup Files 14 Nov 2012
• Rails, Nginx, and X-Accel-Mapping 2 Aug 2012
• Implementing SSL 1 Aug 2012
• Resizing and Uploading Images Asynchronously to S3 26 Jun 2012
• SMTP over SSL with Fastmail 25 Jun 2012
• What Everybody Needs 7 May 2012
• Does Anyone Want To Take Over PaperTrail? 3 May 2012
• Filter Rails Logs 13 Apr 2012
• GitHub Bottle Opener 13 Apr 2012
• Deploy The Right Code 13 Apr 2012
• Commoditisation Or Not 14 Mar 2012
• True Glory 14 Mar 2012
• Customers Remember 7 Mar 2012
• The Kano Model 22 Feb 2012
• Test Driven Development 22 Feb 2012
• Give Me A Better # Key 7 Feb 2012
• Fixing Truncated, Accented Text In MySQL 27 Jan 2012
• Fixing MySQL's Illegal Mix of Collations 24 Jan 2012
• Cleaning Up Code 16 Jan 2012
• Logging Subdomains in Rails 3 24 Nov 2011
• Managing Monit with Upstart 21 Nov 2011
• Export to Excel in Rails 3 9 Nov 2011
• The Social Graph 9 Nov 2011
• DNS Downtime 8 Nov 2011
• Using rbenv in Production 20 Oct 2011
• Gem Versions 22 Sep 2011
• Map Detect 19 Sep 2011
• Binding OS X Services to Function Keys II 10 May 2011
• Successful Business 23 Mar 2011
• Undo and Redo with PaperTrail 1 Mar 2011
• Reversion 22 Feb 2011
• Choose Your Battles 14 Feb 2011
• PaperTrail and Rails 3 9 Feb 2011
• Five Years of Independent Software Business 6 Feb 2011
• Quo Vadis: Simple Authentication for Rails 3 25 Jan 2011
• Lost Luggage 5 Jan 2011
• Consulting Rates 18 Dec 2010
• Breaking Habits and Assumptions 2 Dec 2010
• My PeepCode Sales Top 5,000 6 Nov 2010
• Moving A Subdirectory Into A Separate Git Repository 5 Nov 2010
• Deploying and Monitoring Delayed Job 4 Nov 2010
• Faster PDFs with Prawn 4 Nov 2010
• Work On Your Best Idea 1 Nov 2010
• GitHub and Gravatar's Most Important Lesson 19 Oct 2010
• How To Set Up HTML Email Signatures In Fastmail 18 Oct 2010
• Note To Self: How To Build Gems Now 16 Oct 2010
• Overnight Success 3 Sep 2010
• Quicksilver Out, Alfred In 31 Aug 2010
• Binding OS X Services to Function Keys 31 Aug 2010
• Blog Upgraded. Finally 13 Aug 2010
• Backing up MySQL to Amazon S3 20 May 2010
• Note To Self: How To Build Gems 18 May 2010
• Smash Into Vim (Part I) 11 May 2010
• Publishing dotfiles with private information 31 Mar 2010
• PaperTrail Improvements 31 Mar 2010
• Thinning Text in Firefox 4 Mar 2010
• Monkey patching a gem in Rails 2.3 5 Feb 2010
• Hacked climate science emails 4 Feb 2010
• Generate CSS with css_dryer in your deployment process 2 Feb 2010
• Design Matters More Than Technnology 19 Jan 2010
• Irony 11 Dec 2009
• FYI: Find Out What Cron Is Doing 10 Aug 2009
• Girls In Football (a.k.a. Soccer) — Launched 24 Jul 2009
• A Paper Trail For Your Models 23 Jun 2009
• Going Back To Simple 17 Jun 2009
• Testing HTTP Digest Authentication With Shoulda 9 Jun 2009
• The Rails Toolbox 5 Jun 2009
• Vertical Baseline Rhythm 4 Jun 2009
• Managing Expectations 27 May 2009
• A Better Way To Import Legacy Data In Rails 23 May 2009
• Iceberg Development 20 May 2009
• How To Vendor Rails 28 Apr 2009
• Avoid Typing RAILS_ENV All The Time 10 Apr 2009
• Thinking Sphinx and (Declarative) Authorisation 10 Apr 2009
• Deploying Thinking Sphinx 10 Apr 2009
• Long live the individual useful resource 28 Mar 2009
• Note to self: links in Atom feeds 21 Mar 2009
• There Is No Such Thing As SEO 17 Mar 2009
• The Economics of Renewable Energy 26 Feb 2009
• Realising Enthusiasm 23 Feb 2009
• It's hard being this good 4 Feb 2009
• Who Will Fix The Economy? 30 Jan 2009
• I <3 Helvetica 6 Jan 2009
• Meaningful Work 2 Jan 2009
• Work on what you use and care about 24 Dec 2008
• On Programming 20 Nov 2008
• The Two Problems With CSS 12 Nov 2008
• GPS-style Latitudes and Longitudes on Rails Forms 22 May 2008
• Relational Databases Are Not Relational 6 May 2008
• Small Business 30 Apr 2008
• Urgency 18 Apr 2008
• Static Typing 15 Apr 2008
• I Have Seen The Future Of Dance Music 9 Apr 2008
• Scotland on Rails 2008 8 Apr 2008
• The Highland Fling 2008 7 Apr 2008
• Professionalism 7 Apr 2008
• Henrik Knudsen Site Wins Award 2 Apr 2008
• 90% Under Any Conditions 31 Mar 2008
• Heathrow Terminal 5 Debacle 29 Mar 2008
• Note To Self: Why Some JPEGs Don't Render in Firefox or IE 28 Mar 2008
• Moving Between Lists With acts_as_list 19 Mar 2008
• Easy Long-Running Tasks In Rails 14 Mar 2008
• FreeAgent — Worth Every Penny 5 Mar 2008
• Four-Day Work Week 5 Mar 2008
• Rails 2 Plugin Patterns 1 Mar 2008
• Note To Self: I Didn't Have Time 14 Feb 2008
• Achieving Great Things 28 Jan 2008
• Seeding Your Rails Database With Reference Data 25 Jan 2008
• Note To Self: Overriding A Method With A Mixin 17 Jan 2008
• Converting Image Format When Thumbnailing 15 Jan 2008
• Principessa Crosses Atlantic 17 Dec 2007
• UI State Management 24 Nov 2007
• Letting Others Deploy Safely On Your Rails Machine 12 Nov 2007
• Programmer's Rule Number 42 19 Oct 2007
• Product Development As A Conversation 19 Oct 2007
• Filtering Autotest's Unbuffered Output 3 Oct 2007
• Spolsky: Yes, I Am That Unfocused 27 Sep 2007
• RailsConf Europe 2007 22 Sep 2007
• Simplicity 14 Sep 2007
• Niche Happens 14 Sep 2007
• Perfection 14 Sep 2007
• Moving An acts_as_list Child To A New Parent 29 Aug 2007
• Note To Self: Prevent Uploads Hanging In Safari 17 Aug 2007
• Note To Self: Beware Relative Paths 16 Aug 2007
• Uploading Files With SWFUpload 8 Aug 2007
• Compressing Images With attachment_fu And RMagick 27 Jun 2007
• How To Store Thumbnails and Full Size Images In Different Directories With attachment_fu 20 Jun 2007
• SEO That Works 25 May 2007
• Mephisto Theme — AirBladey Style 17 May 2007
• Your Business Idea: Hot or Not? 25 Apr 2007
• Submitting Part Of A Form Via AJAX 30 Mar 2007
• Filtering Autotest's Output 22 Mar 2007
• AirBlade Goes Renewable 3 Mar 2007
• Backing Up Your Rails Apps' Databases 13 Feb 2007
• Acts As Enterprisey 20 Dec 2006
• css_dryer: DRY Up Your CSS 11 Dec 2006
• Migrating Data Into Rails 5 Dec 2006
• Passionate About Vim 22 Nov 2006