Double Shot #40

Posted by Mike
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I’ve now reached the point where I’m finding it easier to find stuff for this blog than for my .NET link blog. Which is good for me but not so hot for the bottom line, since I sell ads over there. But onwards!

Double Shot #39

Posted by Mike
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Time to clean out the links bucket in anticipation of a busy weekend.

  • Hackety Hack – Ruby-based take on the idea of a starter’s coding environment for kids. (via Ruby Inside)
  • ActsAsSecure – Automatically encrypt specific fields from an ActiveRecord model when they’re stored in a database.
  • Compiling RMagick on OS X 10.4.9 Intel – RMagick, or at least its setup, is one of the pieces of the whole Rails story that just seems utterly devoid of elegance.
  • Tips for Upgrading to Capistrano 2 – I’ll probably jump in this pond sooner rather than later. One of the nice things about being new to the Rails world is that everything is new anyhow so there’s no special penalty to being out on the edge.
  • acts_as_sphinx plugin – Yet another option for full-text searching in Rails applications.
  • Rails: Group results by week – This came in handy last night when I needed to do multilevel reporting in a Rails view.

Double Shot #29

Posted by Mike
Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (5 for 2)

I’m just about back to a full-time freelancing career. Trading the loss of steady income for flexbility is always a gamble, but I feel good about it.

  • Ubuntu breezy badger installation for RMagick – I found some much more complicated howtos on the subject, but this one seems to have worked fine on the latest Ubuntu (after I bumped libmagick6-dev to libmagick9-dev).
  • Rails for IIS: Always Have Friend Named ‘Mike’ – Rob Conery adds some experience-based notes to installing the alpha bits to make Rails run directly on IIS.
  • Lighthouse Launches – New Rails-backed issue-tracking system aimed at developers.
  • OpenOffice.org 2.2 released – With various improvements. So far the OpenOffice family (I’m using NeoOffice on Mac) is handling my document needs just fine. Dumping MS Office is proving to be utterly untraumatic, except that I have to keep it around for a few publishers who absolutely require using their Word templates.
  • Sexy Migrations – As with Hobo, I’m not quite ready for this level of elegant terseness in my Rails, but it’s worth tracking.