2011-01-01: Honing The Knife

I took a few days off after Christmas, but I cannot really stop tinkering with computers at large, so I returned to play with knife. I really like it, but...

2011-01-26: Signed S3 Urls With Fog

Yesterday afternoon I had to share some rather big files with a client, so I decided to put them in a S3 bucket and let him download them at his...

2011-02-01: Mapping Capistrano Onto Chef

Chef is growing stronger every day and after reading that Engine Yard has decided to drop their Capistrano based deployment process, I found myself thinking about mapping between Capistrano e...

2011-02-18: Multipart Uploads With Fog

A couple of days ago I spent the lunch playing, again, with fog; this time I was interested in S3’s multipart upload feature, so fired up fog’s cli and started...

2011-04-13: Rough gallery plugin for Jekyll

Some weeks ago I needed to build a small, static web page starting from a large number of images. Boring task… copying and pasting chunks of HTML is not for...

2011-05-06: Rough, simple Rack::Csrf extension for Sinatra

Here is a really simple extension for Sinatra to ease even more the use of Rack::Csrf with this beautiful micro-framework/DSL. It’s totally untested, written on the spot, published as is....

2011-05-17: New cucumber-rails: adios Webrat!

So, cucumber-rails 0.5.0 has been released today and among the other changes there’s the final blow to Webrat. Now, the tortuosities I wrote about some months ago are not needed...

2011-06-20: First Month

Today marks the first month into my new job at Shopify. What a month! Not a single day’s been tiresome: while externally Shopify could seem a slowly moving entity, behind...

2011-07-24: Stripping Exif Tags

I’ve recently started to use nanoc more often; I still like Jekyll, but it’s better to have more options in one’s toolbox and I’ll probably try other generator in the...

2011-10-20: Picking Out Languages

I like static site generators: you need less resources to host your sites (even one of the almost useless EC2’s micro instances could be enough) and you can move them...

2011-12-27: Moving a Time Machine Disk

Recently I had to upgrade to OS X Lion; given that I didn’t want to lose all the backups performed since my first days in OS X’s world, back in...