Archive of 2010 posts
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: Working with Heroku, Jekyll and Sinatra
Ok, I’ve changed my mind and tweaked this site into a blog. Will I write it regularly? Only time will say. Anyway, I was playing with Heroku to evaluate the...
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Even if I don’t particularly like Objective-C, given the recent release of Cocoa Programming I’ve started to play a bit with Xcode; after the big upgrade to Xcode 3.2.2 and...
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: Keep-alive vs. Mongrel; saved by Thin
Just yesterday I had to fight a battle reminiscent of Don Quixote… To keep it technical: a very long running request in a Ruby on Rails application, served by the...
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: Using Bundler08 Instead Of Standaloneify
These days I need something to do in the evening instead of watching bad football/soccer matches (Germany played a good one…), so I started to play more seriously with RubyCocoa....
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Summertime has hit too heavily for my taste and everything else beyond work is coming to a grinding halt. Some nights ago, unable to fall asleep, my mind started wandering,...
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This is partially a rant; you have been warned! I do not hate ignorance: there are simply too many things in the world to not be ignorant of something. I...
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: Pinging Google With A Service Hook
Recently I added a sitemap to this site; Jekyll facilitated the creation act, so what was left to do? Pinging Google, just to say a name, automatically. First of all,...
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: Using Chef And Bundler Together
An old friend of mine recently needed to start using Bundler in a scenario managed by Chef via chef-solo. Up to now, the gems in that setup had been managed...
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: Serving Static Assets In Production
This post is for myself (so that I won’t forget) and the only other reader of this blog. Background: you have a shining new web application written with Ruby on...
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: Coercing Cucumber And Webrat To Cooperate
After the release of Ruby on Rails 3, using Webrat with Cucumber in a Ruby on Rails 3 application is not something that works out of the box as before....