If there’s one thing that’s saved me no end of heartache it’s including Apache conf settings for a Rails app or Merb/PHP/whatever, in the app’s config folder. You get versioning for free. You don’t forget your settings. You know where to find it every time. No other process can mess with it (not looking at [...]

My new home town (not just the place I live, but now HOMEtown) rocks. The unspace crew did a freaking amazing job on RubyFringe. Joey has a huge list of notes on his blog if you want some nitty gritty.
For me personally, here’s the stand outs…
- I have to say Damien Katz’s presentation was [...]

Opening night and day 1 are over. Just about to go pick Krispy and head down for day two. Truly, my mate mates down at Unspace have done an AWESOME job. The vibe is amazing. A lot of “best conference ever” comments going round.

Yes.. those are laptops waving in the air, and yes [...]

So I’ve been thinking about things, thinking about the state of web development. What could I write about to could help out some new recruits and budding developers. (Note this is a long one, so get some coffee, sit back, read, and I’d love to see your thoughts and opinions at the end …). In [...]

Updated LinkedIn Blog Post
If yellowpages.com or a whole bunch of other sites or the Friends for Sale facebook app wasn’t enough to convince you, that yes, you are on the right track with Rails (no pun intended).
Another solid Rails app has been mentioned in mainstream media http://blogs.zdnet.com/enterprisealley/?p=188 blogs about a Facebook app done [...]

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 [...]

A while ago I was looking at all of the events going on in Toronto, mailing lists, *camps wondering how the heck does anyone get to know what’s going on?. Particularly those who are new to the scene ? After talking to a couple of people and realising the need for one central place to [...]

Okay so yesterday I found a behavior problem with passenger (1.04) in that
request.env['PATH_INFO']
was nil, whereas under Mongrel it was being set as we were expecting to the current path. Within less than I guess 2 hours of reporting it on #passenger, code was put in place and committed to github.
Now how’s that for amazing [...]

If you’re in Toronto and been living under a rock you probably haven’t realised that every month, there are a number of events specifically for Ruby/Rails developers.
There’s the ever popular and well attended Rails Pub Nite - great for networking and an excuse to have a pint or two. If this sounds like your [...]

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, [...]