Recently finished updating a app for Rails 1.2, the whole process wasn't too painful and its nice to see core get serious about removing cruft. Here are a few notes on the process:
Do the easy changes first – @request, @params, @flash, etc should all go away. Note that you still need @request in [...]
My first patch has been committed to Rails to fix a little bug with render_to_string. I'm an official Rails contributor.
To celebrate, here are two videos of giant centipedes eating a mouse and a bat! (Not for the faint hearted.)
Every time one of the new consoles come out, we get sad stories like these. On top of the obvious insanity in camping for days to buy a buggy $600 system, we have people getting hurt and robbed for their systems. Is this really a difficult problem to solve?
How about this: two weeks [...]
I've been working (programming) from home since April with Seeking Alpha, and its been a lot of fun. I've discovered the true value of being free of distractions, as a phone call or annoying pet can break flow and burn ten minutes. I've also learned just how much more productive I can be [...]
A coworker who shall remain nameless had this method missing implementation in a module that got mixed into the app helper. This tricked me up for longer then it should, mostly because I hadn't synced up in awhile and so assumed the problem was in changes I made. I don't know if it [...]
Bored and procrastinating. Might as well link some things up for you, gentle reader.
Deprecations coming in Rails 1.2 - prepare yourself
Serious vulnerability in Ruby's CGI libary (1.8.5 and below!) - you are effected if you are using Mongrel, plain CGI, or Litespeed - you are NOT effected if you are using FastCGI. See [...]
Will Shipley's hilarious presentation [pdf] has a slide that really boils down the mac vs pc debate to its essence:
Mac people use their computers
Windows people put up with their computers
So what do Linux people do then?
It seems like ages ago that Measure Map was acquired by Google. Is anything going to come of that? I've had access to a beta account for awhile (not for this blog) and the simplicity and interface are wonderful - its pretty much the anti-Analytics. Analytics looks and feels like a very [...]
So I went to RubyConf, I went to Ajax Experience, stopped in to Milwaukee on the way back to see a friend, and am finally home and back into the swing of things. It was a long trip with some nasty red-eye flights, and the day before I left I found out I had [...]
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