Brown Sauce for life
I recently spent a couple of hours building the Ooh! Saucy! site for a friend who makes her own special recipe brown sauce. The site is content managed using Radiant and freely hosted on Heroku, here's how I jabbed relentlessly at the keyboard until shit appeared right...Simple content management for Rails
A requirement on a recent project was to have editable content slots throughout the application. Here's what I done wiv my 'ands and my brains...Le Mans Spotters Guide
I'm off to Le Mans for the 24hr race. Here's the spotters guide from spottersguides.com.Guerilla BMX
Tucked away in a shady little location in the West Country is this amazing set of hand built dirt jumps. One of the shovel wielding bikers gave us a short demo...Ruby Debugger Commands
I can never find or remember these commands when I need them, often frowned upon by the BDD community the debugger is how most programmers cut their teeth. Ruby's is a bit backdoor but it does the job when you know the basic commands.Don't try this at home kids...
Scratching in the kitchen for Keith...Mean Wheels
Spotted outside the Electric Ballroom, Camden, night of the Reverend Horton Heat gig...Active Record for Javascript
The eggheads at activerecordjs.org have brought sunshine to the cloudy world of javascript persistence mechanisms with Active Record js.
Busta
We got another dog from the RSPCA last week, his name is called Busta and he's a very happy chap...
Cheat sheet gem
cheat is a useful gem for access to command line cheatsheets.Richard Dawkins would have a seizure...
When you start to think there might be something extraordinary about your giant pet, what do you do? Phone the RSPCA? Consult a vet? Or call a medium.
We don't advise you...
Stuff you shouldn't be doing...
10 minute javascript logger
A quick and cheap js logger class to help you get out of alert hell...Heroku is what Willis is talking about.
Welcome to the future, the slate is clean, all your past misdemeanors with Joomla! and Drupal are forgotten. You can finally free up that part of your brain still retaining fragments of PHP knowledge. Here in the future Rails gets free hosting, and being Rails it gets something that’s so sweet, your teeth will fall out of your face. It’s what Willis is talking about, it’s Heroku.
Natural Docs rake task
Recently I’ve been working on a Javascript heavy app for a client. In order to document the 2000+ lines Javascript in the project I used Natural Docs.
Web 2.0 Suicide - Pull the F***ing Trigger Man!
Not enough Facebook friends? Nobody following you on Twitter? Does you MySpace page look like an explosion in a wallpaper factory?
The Web 2.0 Suicide Machine can help you end all your social networking woes, do it, pull the f***ing trigger!