This is a seriously old post. I’d probably not bother reading it, but I keep it here for nostalgia. Web Development With SCM Basics Pre-Amble I remember when I first started development. Even more fun was doing the same but over a remote ftp connection through Transmit, or just directly on the server. I got u...
This is a seriously old post. I’d probably not bother reading it, but I keep it here for nostalgia. Railties Error? If you’re like me and you skip reading a gem’s README when you install the latest, you’ll be seriously sorry when you don’t for inherited_resources because it is Rails 3 only. The same can be sai...
This is a seriously old post. I’d probably not bother reading it, but I keep it here for nostalgia. Where Are You, Jamie? I’m still alive! I’ve been contracting for a Healthcare company in Nashville. I’ve been doing a multitude of jobs, the timeline went something a little like this: A month of web develop...
This is a seriously old post. I’d probably not bother reading it, but I keep it here for nostalgia. Stubbing RubyMotion HTTP Coming from the Ruby and Rails world, I’m anchored in the paradigm that we should test our code. Our code should not only be tested, but it should be sure not to be hitting external serv...
This is a seriously old post. I’d probably not bother reading it, but I keep it here for nostalgia. My CodeClub Assembly Today I gave a school assembly at Burley Oaks Primary School on the CodeClub class I’m a volunteer for. I was nervous! I was pitching my class to 106 Year 6 students, seeing who would be int...
This is a seriously old post. I’d probably not bother reading it, but I keep it here for nostalgia. Git Log Visualisation With PEW PEW! Gource is an OpenGL capable visualisation tool for difference SCM’s, it’s easy to install and looks pretty damn cool. If you have Homebrew installed it’s simply: 1 brew ins...
This is a seriously old post. I’d probably not bother reading it, but I keep it here for nostalgia. Custom Triggers With the Bluepill Monitoring Gem We use Chef for automating our server infrastructure, but I’ll show you the manual way of installing Bluepill (either locally or remotely) so you can play with it...
This is a seriously old post. I’d probably not bother reading it, but I keep it here for nostalgia. I’ve noticed a lot of people asking questions about ajax, rjs, scriptaculous and other whizzy cool effects lately. So I thought I’d document a couple here so there’s less confusion about some of the simpler effec...
This is a seriously old post. I’d probably not bother reading it, but I keep it here for nostalgia. I lied, turns out I like sushi! :-/ Home Code Tumblr Japanese Who? Aug 24 What’s Jamie been up to? General No Comments » As you may have noticed, there’s been a severe lack of posting lately. We...
This is a seriously old post. I’d probably not bother reading it, but I keep it here for nostalgia. Chapter 1 - Getting Started Getting Up and Running, Quickly I think the best way to start you off with Rails is to dive right in and get your first application up and running. If you’d like to instead learn the...
This is a seriously old post. I’d probably not bother reading it, but I keep it here for nostalgia. Here’s a quick note for those using DreamHost and Capistrano (a.k.a SwitchTower) to 1. rake deploy your sites to production. You no doubt use this restart command: 1. killall -9 dispatch.fcgi It no long...
This is a seriously old post. I’d probably not bother reading it, but I keep it here for nostalgia. I’m happy when I start work, and I’m happy when I stop (a rare occasion), and my happy gleeful day is all down to the set of utilities that I use day to day. 90% of my work is web development in Ruby on Rails and...
This is a seriously old post. I’d probably not bother reading it, but I keep it here for nostalgia. In the spirit of the rails community, I’m beginning a short tutorial series on the overview of Ruby on Rails, how it works and where to get started. In Part 1 we’re going to look at how it all knits together into...
This is a seriously old post. I’d probably not bother reading it, but I keep it here for nostalgia. It seems that plenty of people have problems getting their apps to work on many different hosting packages, so I thought it might be useful to have a checklist for people to check through that cause the most prob...
Home Assistant and HA Bridge Today I decided to get home-assistant voice activated with my Amazon Echo. There are multiple ways of doing this, but I chose the easiest and laziest for now. What does it enable me to do? “Alexa, turn on my living room lights” My living room lights turn on and Alexa says “Okay”....
Home Assistant and HA Bridge Today I decided to get home-assistant voice activated with my Amazon Echo. There are multiple ways of doing this, but I chose the easiest and laziest for now. What does it enable me to do? “Alexa, turn on my living room lights” My living room lights turn on and Alexa says “Okay”....