Code Notes

“The secret to solving a problem is having seen it before,” — Bill Dalton. Here, mostly, are a few we’ve encountered. Next time they’ll be easy.

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
Thinking Sphinx and (Declarative) Authorisation 10 Apr 2009
Deploying Thinking Sphinx 10 Apr 2009
Avoid Typing RAILS_ENV All The Time 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
Product Development As A Conversation 19 Oct 2007
Programmer's Rule Number 42 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
Niche Happens 14 Sep 2007
Perfection 14 Sep 2007
Simplicity 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