is Mike Gunderloy's software development weblog, covering Ruby on Rails and whatever else I find interesting in the universe of software. I'm a full-time Rails developer and contributor, available for long- or short-term consulting, with solid experience in working as part of a distri...
is Mike Gunderloy's software development weblog, covering Ruby on Rails and whatever else I find interesting in the universe of software. I'm a full-time Rails developer and contributor, available for long- or short-term consulting, with solid experience in working as part of a distri...
is Mike Gunderloy's software development weblog, covering Ruby on Rails and whatever else I find interesting in the universe of software. I'm a full-time Rails developer and contributor, available for long- or short-term consulting, with solid experience in working as part of a distri...
is Mike Gunderloy's software development weblog, covering Ruby on Rails and whatever else I find interesting in the universe of software. I'm a full-time Rails developer and contributor, available for long- or short-term consulting, with solid experience in working as part of a distri...
Monday, January 7, 2013 at 5:29AM If you want to learn about the DCI controversy, you can Google it. Personally, I'm crushingly uninterested. cocoa-rest-client - Native OS X app for testing HTTP endpoints. μLithp - Lisp interpreter in 27 lines of Ruby. rbenv - Version 0.4.0 of this ru...
is Mike Gunderloy's software development weblog, covering Ruby on Rails and whatever else I find interesting in the universe of software. I'm a full-time Rails developer and contributor, available for long- or short-term consulting, with solid experience in working as part of a distri...
is Mike Gunderloy's software development weblog, covering Ruby on Rails and whatever else I find interesting in the universe of software. I'm a full-time Rails developer and contributor, available for long- or short-term consulting, with solid experience in working as part of a distri...
Monday, December 31, 2012 at 6:58AM Last weekend's fun: overnighting in a hammock in 13F weather . Summary of the December 24, 2012 Amazon ELB Service Event in the US-East Region - " The data was deleted by a maintenance process that was inadvertently run against the production ELB st...
Monday, December 31, 2012 at 7:08AM Weeks of December 24 - December 30, 2012 After anticipating Rails 4 for a year, it feels close to me. I'd be amazed if we weren't playing with it by RailsConf. 61b91c4c removes the /bin directory from the default .gitignore. Seldom has a one-line ch...
is Mike Gunderloy's software development weblog, covering Ruby on Rails and whatever else I find interesting in the universe of software. I'm a full-time Rails developer and contributor, available for long- or short-term consulting, with solid experience in working as part of a distri...
is Mike Gunderloy's software development weblog, covering Ruby on Rails and whatever else I find interesting in the universe of software. I'm a full-time Rails developer and contributor, available for long- or short-term consulting, with solid experience in working as part of a distri...
is Mike Gunderloy's software development weblog, covering Ruby on Rails and whatever else I find interesting in the universe of software. I'm a full-time Rails developer and contributor, available for long- or short-term consulting, with solid experience in working as part of a distri...
A Fresh Cup is Mike Gunderloy's software development weblog, covering Ruby on Rails and whatever else I find interesting in the universe of software. I'm a full-time Rails developer and contributor, available for long- or short-term consulting, with solid experience in working as part...
Monday, December 24, 2012 at 6:37AM And to all a good night. Crontabulator - "Cron & task monitoring as a service." My Workflow: Never having to leave DevTools - This won't be the last we see about the browser and the programmer's editor becoming a single entity. Launched - A launchd....
is Mike Gunderloy's software development weblog, covering Ruby on Rails and whatever else I find interesting in the universe of software. I'm a full-time Rails developer and contributor, available for long- or short-term consulting, with solid experience in working as part of a distri...
Friday, December 21, 2012 at 6:37AM After being at meetings with 200 different kids these past four nights…I guess it's not surprising that I've got a cold this morning. Commands - New gem to speed up running rake and rails commands while you're developing. Not fully baked yet, but lo...
jQuery Core 1.9 Upgrade Guide - Tooling and tips for a successful migration. Savon 2.0 - New version of this SOAP client for Ruby. request_store - A better alternative to Thread.current if you need per-request global storage. Put chubby models on a diet with concerns - The official Ra...
is Mike Gunderloy's software development weblog, covering Ruby on Rails and whatever else I find interesting in the universe of software. I'm a full-time Rails developer and contributor, available for long- or short-term consulting, with solid experience in working as part of a distri...
is Mike Gunderloy's software development weblog, covering Ruby on Rails and whatever else I find interesting in the universe of software. I'm a full-time Rails developer and contributor, available for long- or short-term consulting, with solid experience in working as part of a distri...
Wednesday, November 14, 2012 at 5:31AM Another round of poison ivy? Ack. Capybara 2.0.0 - Out now, with some breaking changes. rspec-rails and capybara 2.0: what you need to know - Here's how to make rspec catch up with the changes. tablecloth - jQuery plugin for table formatting, wit...
Tuesday, November 13, 2012 at 6:09AM Seriously? A thousand of these? I must be nuts. Rake 10.0 Released - And leaps multiple versions in a mighty bound. Convert Syck to Psych YAML format - Automating away some of the pain of upgrading. Rails 3.2.9 has been released! - Time for another...
is Mike Gunderloy's software development weblog, covering Ruby on Rails and whatever else I find interesting in the universe of software. I'm a full-time Rails developer and contributor, available for long- or short-term consulting, with solid experience in working as part of a distri...
is Mike Gunderloy's software development weblog, covering Ruby on Rails and whatever else I find interesting in the universe of software. I'm a full-time Rails developer and contributor, available for long- or short-term consulting, with solid experience in working as part of a distri...
Monday, October 22, 2012 at 5:31AM I know I've been working too hard when I start dreaming in code. Version Your Ruby Objects with Aversion - Another approach towards versioning, borrowing functional programming ideas about immutable objects. TotalSpaces finally reaches 1.0 - Excellen...
is Mike Gunderloy's software development weblog, covering Ruby on Rails and whatever else I find interesting in the universe of software. I'm a full-time Rails developer and contributor, available for long- or short-term consulting, with solid experience in working as part of a distri...
Friday, October 12, 2012 at 6:18AM Camping time again, and not a moment too soon. 3D Sculptures in Firefox - Amusing experiment with Firefox's visualization tools. Lazy User Registration for Rails Apps - Implemented with Devise. Wercker - Continuous deployment system with Github and c...
Week of October 1 - October 7, 2012 The latest Rails performance brainstorm is turbolinks , which makes reloading just the page body the default for intra-application links. I'm skeptical, but it'll probably work out fine except for annoying and hard to track down edge-case breakage. ...
Thursday, October 4, 2012 at 5:51AM Parking cars isn't glamorous, but it sure brings in a bundle of money for our Boy Scout troop. New RubyStack for Ruby on Rails Developers - From Bitnami, with preinstall MySQL, servers, common gems, and more (but no PostgreSQL, alas). Quick Look JSO...
Like some other people, I'm getting increasingly leery of Twitter as it becomes increasingly obvious that their mission in life is to deliver eyeballs to advertisers by locking people into a corporate-approved walled garden. I'm not all that interested in being part of the product, gi...
Friday, September 28, 2012 at 6:20AM Thoroughly ready to send this week to the dustbin of history. Why does HTML think "chucknorris" is a color? - Because sometimes being forgiving in what you accept is taken to an extreme. Spar - Opinionated front-end framework with a Rails-like asse...