Sometimes you just forget the stuff you take for granted, but often you hear of people new to apps and not realising what’s there. Here’s a couple of the features of Textmate that are probably my most used…
CMD + T - Go to file, pretty hot. List of files is shown in a dialog that [...]

Last night was yet another successful Toronto Ruby on Rails Nite put on by Corina Newby. The Toronto ruby community is rocking, evidenced by the large turnouts and fresh faces we see everytime. I’d guess 40-50 of Toronto’s best and brightest Rails developers filled out the room. The unspace guys put on some much appreciated [...]

Tip of the day: For anyone out there with CentOS 5, despite what Passenger thinks, your http-devel libraries likely are installed.
I was getting an error “you need to yum install http-devel” , which I had, but still getting the error.
If like me, the export APXS2 as per passenger docs doesn’t work, just add [...]

Ya know there’s times in your life you do things that feel ‘wrong’. This somehow feels that way, but one of my buddies wanted to know how it’s done, so here it is:
I’ve got an application I maintain in PHP which has been in production for a good number of years. It’s stable, [...]

Tip #1 Query Trace
So you’re profiling your application, cutting down your SQL queries, looking through the logs - “argh where did that query come from ?!” you say to yourself. Then you remember what Luke G said at the last Toronto Rails Project nite - check out Query Trace.
Oh how this has made my [...]