August 2008
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Umbrella Today?
The Lone Star Ruby conference is about a week away. Chad, Jon, Matt, Tammer, Jared, and I will be running a training session on Thursday.
Our approach to teaching thoughtbot’s Rails Best Practices is to go through our development process for a real application called Umbrella Today?, which we began building two weeks ago. After each 45 minute lecture, we’ll give participants the chance to feel...
Pneumatic cylinders
Let’s assume a basic has_many :through situation like this…
class Paper < ActiveRecord::Base
has_many :categorizations, :dependent => :destroy
has_many :categories, :through => :categorizations
end
class Category < ActiveRecord::Base
has_many :categorizations, :dependent => :destroy
has_many :papers, :through => :categorizations
end
class Categorization <...
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Some Improvements to Fluid Campfire Scripts
Last night, Fluid 0.9.3 was released. This release adds Userstyles, a way to specify CSS that overrides the CSS on a page. If you’d seen my previously released campfire scripts for fluid, you’ll know that I had a catchall script that made various improvements for using Campfire with Fluid. Well, with this release of Fluid, I’ve made some improvements to this script, changing the way input is...
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Keeping the Pressure On
Rather than spending our surplus on gold rings, hookers, and fur coats, we’ve been keeping the pressure on. Over the last 3 months we’ve released 5 new products, services, or open source projects. I figured we’d take a moment to remind you of them. Consider this a clip show of GRSIOGR.
In May
We launched a new t-shirt store, Tee-Bot. The store currently features 3 Ruby on Rails...
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Let's Put Some Lipstick on this Toad
Its been a little over a week since we officially launched Hoptoad, our centralized error catching application. The feedback we’ve received has been overwhelmingly positive, and we’ve caught about 45,000 non-test errors from 115 applications. If you haven’t given Hoptoad a try yet, come on in, the water’s fine.
Yesterday we deployed several improvements:
One of the more noticeable...
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We're looking to hire another great designer.
Hey Everyone, hows it going? Good? Yeah, same here.
We’re looking to hire another great web designer to join our team full-time in our Boston office. The right person will have experience designing user interfaces for web applications, have good typographical skills, a strong foundation in design principles, excellent XHTML and CSS skills, and will be as passionate about great design,...