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- The quick, easy, free way to send mail-merged email from a Mac
- Managing multiple Heroku accounts with heroku-accounts plugin
- Getting RSpec, Postgres, DatabaseCleaner to play nicely together
- Rspec gotcha – instance variables are not cleared between ‘get’s
- ActiveRecord find_each ignores any order() criteria
- I hereby nominate Baking Soda as the “Duct tape for Home Hygiene”
- Quick guide to multiple heroku accounts, and moving apps between them
- How to specify traits for model associations in FactoryGirl
- Getting Rmagick to work again
- Still half-baked for SMS texting: Toktumi Line2
- Favorite online regex wizard (so far)
- A subtle problem with using update_attributes in Rails migrations
- ActiveRecord .count and .length are different when .group
- Setting the default time zone for a Heroku app
- Using those fantastic Apple Cube USB Speakers with a MacBook Pro under Lion
- Finding a decent editor for Rails
- Rails apps can send from multiple SMTP accounts
- Example of an ethical annual credit card renewal: kudos to Vimeo
- My favorite Ruby thing this week: when *my_array
- Pure, unadulterated, geek testosterone
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Monthly Archives: April 2011
Buzzbeeper.com is open for business
Buzzbeeper is a simple, easy-to-use, low-cost cloud-based service that gives your customers a fun, 10-second survey to find out how you’re doing (via text message, twitter, or telephone). And when a customer isn’t happy, it “beeps” you before they even … Continue reading
“Baba Pardner’s Yoga-in-a-cup Chai”
Sometimes I bring a thermos of chai to yoga class (or meetings). According to my scientific guesstimates, drinking one cup of chai is equivalent to 23.4 sun salutations. Here’s my recipe that makes 8 cups. In 8 cups of cold … Continue reading
Adding SSL to an app hosted at Heroku
[POST UPDATED 9/7/2012 TO REFLECT NEW HEROKU SSL ENDPOINT SETUP] A friend needed some help adding SSL to their custom-domain-name app hosted at Heroku, and it wasn’t entirely trivial. We found bits and pieces in several places, but never found … Continue reading
A haiku for heroku
Web complexity managed with such elegance. Git deployment rocks. The only problem with using Heroku intensively is that you come to expect everything to be deployable with git. Sadness follows.
Someday we may fail to find the images we need on istockphoto. But not today.
Huge selection of photo and vector art, good search/lightbox capability, low cost, essentially unlimited use (for many purposes), easy pay ‘n download. My favorite feature? Ability to download reasonably clean watermarked comps so we can play around with storyboards and … Continue reading
Web CSS templates that did not disappoint… Templateworld.com
Often a friend will ask me to help them with ideas for their website. Most of the time a turnkey pre-built website offered by most hosting providers will suffice, so that’s what they end up doing. But last week a … Continue reading
Great support from a surprising corner: Godaddy
Actually it’s not surprising, their 24×7 support is excellent, and they have mastered the art of turning support calls into selling updates, renewals, and upgrades. But yesterday was interesting. I called about a slight issue I had installing an app … Continue reading
Lemons to lemonade when the airline strands you
I always though this was kind of obvious, but a number of friends thought this was clever so I’ll pass it along… Last week I was supposed to return from NYC (Newark, the only airport to use when flying to/from … Continue reading
Outsourcing success tidbits
Last year we did a pretty cool “local O2O” (Online-to-Offline) project with a local TV station. The budget and timeframe were tight. And this project simply begged to be done with Ruby on Rails for a host of reasons. We … Continue reading
IMO Tropo not ready for prime time. Went with Twilio.
Subtitle: “When you are betting your ass on a platform, if you have a choice of platforms, bet on the company that has to deliver an actual working solution to survive, not on a company for whom the platform is … Continue reading