Posted by Steve on July 04, 2012
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Here's the Gist for my test_helper.rb file which gets you running Rails functional tests as MiniTest specs...
Posted by Steve on February 28, 2012
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I have just pushed my first draft of my Padrino CMS Template onto Github. It aims to enhance the standard Padrino Admin app with a Content model which is keyed by path.
Posted by Steve on August 01, 2011
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Wall of Death, Drag Racing, Soapbox Derby and loads of Kustom Karzzz...
Posted by Steve on July 28, 2011
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A developer friend has just launched a very cool new music / event promotion website coupled with streamed audio for registered artists. Each artist's airtime is influenced by the listener's votes. It's a very good looking application with some simple but very effective features. Check out
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Posted by Steve on June 24, 2011
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ActionView's
date_select helper doesn't produce valid dates where the date select element is visible. i.e it's possible to select February 31st for example. Here's my 10 min fix in javascript (using prototype minimally).
Posted by Steve on June 17, 2011
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A quick example of Javascript bitwise encoding...
Posted by Steve on February 19, 2011
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Another Radiant and Heroku site I made wiv my 'ands
Posted by Steve on December 03, 2010
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A client's CMS application was hogging up to 1.2gb RAM for the passenger ruby processes, we set to work on putting the big fella on a diet and with the help of the ruby profiler, some very useful tips on finding active record bloat and the wonderful oink gem we achieved a huge performance boost and reduced resource usage.
Posted by Steve on November 24, 2010
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... till the pigs come round.
Posted by Steve on September 16, 2010
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I've just spent the past 3 days working out a bunch of character encoding problems on an application running in Ruby 1.9
By the end of it I felt like my eyes were bleeding, I shall recount the horror as a lesson to you all...
Posted by Steve on July 28, 2010
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DLH funday 2010...
Posted by Steve on July 26, 2010
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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...
Posted by Steve on July 13, 2010
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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...
Posted by Steve on May 27, 2010
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I'm off to Le Mans for the 24hr race. Here's the spotters guide from
spottersguides.com.
Posted by Steve on May 17, 2010
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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...
Posted by Steve on May 13, 2010
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Posted by Steve on May 06, 2010
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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.
Posted by Steve on April 01, 2010
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Scratching in the kitchen for Keith...
Posted by Steve on March 26, 2010
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Spotted outside the Electric Ballroom, Camden, night of the Reverend Horton Heat gig...
Posted by Steve on March 22, 2010
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The eggheads at activerecordjs.org have brought sunshine to the cloudy world of javascript persistence mechanisms with Active Record js.
Posted by Steve on March 03, 2010
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We got another dog from the RSPCA last week, his name is called Busta and he's a very happy chap...
Posted by Steve on March 02, 2010
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cheat is a useful gem for access to command line cheatsheets.
Posted by Steve on February 15, 2010
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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.
Posted by Steve on February 05, 2010
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Stuff you shouldn't be doing...
Posted by Steve on February 03, 2010
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A quick and cheap js logger class to help you get out of alert hell...