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Category Archives: Ruby
An evening with Jason Fried from 37 Signals
I went to the 37 Signals event last night sponsored by CPB. The speaker was Jason Fried, who is a founder of the company, a designer and all around smart guy. Jason spoke mainly about small business. He presented a … Continue reading
Posted in Engineering, Inversoft, Life, Rails, Tech
Tagged 37 signals, complexity, cpb, ideals, jason fried
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Do we really need code reloading?
With Grails, Rails, Python, etc offering developers the chance to change code, hit refresh and see the changes I often wonder if reload truly a feature that is a must have these days? It seems like it is one of … Continue reading
Posted in Engineering, JCatapult, Java, Rails, Tech
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Handling strange Rails URLs
Came across an interesting situation where my Rails application was going to be receiving URLs with characters like – (dash) and . (period or dot). Something like this: http://example.com/my_controller/action-with-odd.characters Ruby doesn’t allow dashes or periods in identifiers, so this was … Continue reading
Posted in Rails, Ruby
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Handling Rails 404 and 500 errors
I spent a couple of hours trying to figure out how to handle 404 and 500 errors in Rails. This is not simple and actually really annoying. Hopefully future versions clean this up because right now it sucks pretty badly. … Continue reading
Posted in Rails, Ruby
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Programming languages IM conversation
Here’s a conversation between James and I that started on dynamic languages and went on a tangent about languages, revolutions and evolutions. Ponch: I’ve just been working on Naymz stuff lately. Also tinkering with Groovy and using it with an … Continue reading
Posted in IAPL, Java, Ruby, Tech
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