A tumblelog
about
technology, development, motorcycles, cheeseburgers, UX, design,
ruby on rails,
general geekery, laughing, pizza, bourbon, video
games, and vacationing
in Hawaii.
Not all at the same time.
about
technology, development, motorcycles, cheeseburgers, UX, design,
ruby on rails,
general geekery, laughing, pizza, bourbon, video
games, and vacationing
in Hawaii.
Not all at the same time.
about me
PhotoFunia
:rails => 'session_lifetime plugin'
Notify users when their session expires. Nice.
“ When you hit a wrong note it’s the next note that makes it good or bad.
Miles Davis
Poladroid Project - Mac OS X
Make your photos look like old Polaroid photos. I’ve owned a Polaroid, and while nothing rivals digital cameras for their instant gratification satisfaction injection, I still kind of miss the anticipation of the first barely visible image fragments emerging from the white haze of the chemical-infused plastic.
Ah, memories.
Rails 2.2 (RC1) Released
Wow. Rails just keeps adding on the frosting. I can hardly keep up with all of the developments. Awesome.
Rails 2.2 Features
- Connection Pools (Rails 2.2 is thread-safe!)
- Mailer Layouts
- Shallow Routes
- Simpler Conditional Get Support
- Standard Internationalization Framework
- Get Your Metaclass
- Easy Memoization
- Easy Join Table Conditions
- Custom Length Validation Tokenizer
- Collection Partial Variable Naming
Via Ryan’s Scraps
“ The easiest way to build a product that kicks ass is to start with someone else’s great idea, and take stuff away.
Exact-fucking-ly.
Understand Your User
Your user is… you. Really, nothing more to be said.
Via Daring Fireball
Rails Rumble 2008 Apps
What can YOU build in 48 hours?
37signals's wysihat
“WysiHat is a WYSIWYG JavaScript framework that provides an extensible foundation to design your own rich text editor. WysiHat stays out of your way and leaves the UI design to you.”
Qwitter. Find out when someone unfollows you on Twitter. Maybe it’s my vanity, maybe it’s the numbers, but I’m always interested when someone unfollows me, and even more, which post did it. No, it’s not at all scientific, but so what?!
