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Securing a Rails app on Passenger with SSL 24 Jul 2012 | 10:05 pm
Configuring a site for SSL is simple once you understand the process. Unfortunately I don’t set these up all that often so I forget. In my book Web Development Recipes I cover how to set up the certif...
On The Desired Complexity of Rails 22 Aug 2011 | 04:54 pm
I attended Madison Ruby this weekend and got a healthy dose of knowledge from some very talented presenters. Some of the talks focused heavily on improving our practices, especially in Rails applicati...
Installing Oracle Client on Ubuntu. 1 Jun 2011 | 03:15 am
Ubuntu isn’t one of the supported operating systems from Oracle, so we have do to some manual work to get things set up. First, we need to create a home for the files we’ll be downloading. Then we n...
Rails 3, Refactored Code, and Docs 11 May 2011 | 07:43 am
If you’ve been doing Rails work for a long time, you’re familiar with the difference between delete and destroy in your ActiveRecord models. If you weren’t, you might look at your code and see what cl...
Sharing Vim configs with Mac and Windows using Dropbox 28 Jan 2011 | 11:41 am
I’m back to using VIm again, after a few years of working with TextMate on the Mac. VIm is great because it works the same on many different platforms, and I jump from Mac to Windows a lot these days....
Learning Clojure – Baby Steps Towards Readable Code 30 Oct 2010 | 03:55 am
One thing that keeps me coming back to trying to learn Clojure is the way the language forces me to think about problems in a different way. To illustrate that, I thought I’d share a simple problem an...
Web Accessibility – The Screenreader Experience Part One 16 Oct 2010 | 05:11 am
In order to help other developers understand accessibility and assistive technology, I’ve been working on a series of articles aimed at developers. As a slight change of pace, I invite you to experien...
How to Survive a Live Coding Demo Without a Projector 11 Oct 2010 | 08:42 am
I love to turn bad situations into opportunities to help others learn. This morning I gave a talk at Twin Cities Code Camp on “Building Mobile Apps with HTML5 and Web Standards”. The talk had a slide ...
Web Accessibility For Developers 7 Oct 2010 | 03:40 am
Recently, I polled people via Hacker News and Twitter about the things they’d like me to share about web accessibility given my experience as both a web developer and a daily user of assistive technol...
Connecting to SQL Server from a Mac (Again) 21 Sep 2010 | 07:07 am
Connecting to SQL Server is one task I have to do regularly when I work on Rails applications for clients that use Microsoft technologies. I usually set my machine up and don’t really worry too much a...
