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- I am moving this blog to SpitfireSky.com/blog
- Couchrest Couchdb thumbnail generation with Mini_Magick and Merb (or Rails)
- Add custom methods to Spreedly gem
- Using Spreedly with Merb via HTTParty
- Unobtrusive Ajax with Merb, Datamapper, and jQuery
- Merb and Datamapper Single Table Inheritance
- How to remove sources from your gem list
- Create a merb slice with jeweler
- How to test for subdomains in Merb
- PDF Generation in Merb using HTMLDOC
- How to install RMagick on Leopard from source
- jQuery $(this) selector and sibling
- How to clone remote branches with git
- Installing Red5 3.5 on Slicehost Ubuntu 8.04.01 Hardy
- Timezones with Merb
- How to use Spreedly with Merb
- 4 Hours in London
- How to include merb helpers
- Merb application wide config settings
- Sending sms text messages from your application
- Copy MySQL database from one server to another remote server
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- How to Setup FTP on Slicehost
- How to create a sitemap with webby
- How to do basecamp style subdomains in merb
- How to tar a folder in unix
- How to switch to the official mysql gem on OSX for rails 2.2
- Multisite logins in a merb application using merb-auth and merb-auth-password-slice
- Fixing git “interactive rebase already started”
- Having troubles with growlnotify
- 5.0 Earthquake
- How to check for reserved subdomains with Merb and Datamapper
- Merb bundler
- My favorite merb guides, tutorials, and resources
- Merb subdomains
- How to find cause of heavy usage on your Apache webserver
- How to ban bad ips in a rails app
- Easy ajax sorting with will_paginate and ujs_sort_helper for rails
- Merb simple_format helper
- Remove quoted text from reply emails in rails
- Setup Paperclip plugin with Amazon S3 to upload videos in rails
- Merb – Seeing your routes
- How to run rake in production mode on your server
- Using Gmail with IMAP to Receive Email in Rails (cron job version)
- Creating a contact form mailer in merb using sendmail and merb-mailer
- Beginner’s guide to installing merb
- How to install ffmpeg on ubuntu hardy on slicehost
- Explaining the names behind the ubuntu source lists – multiverse, universe, main, restricted
- Launched Twinstang.com. Digital Pilot Logbooking. Second web app attempt.
- Site wide announcements in rails
- How to install postfix on mac os x
- ajax in place editing with rails 2.1 and jquery
- iPhone optimized Merb application with iUI
- Difference between render and display in merb
- How to uninstall all gems from your computer
- How to setup a remote git server and deploy from it with capistrano
- How to Install Merb – Use thor to get merb:edge
- tzselect – changing the timezone on your slicehost server
- merb-auth beginner’s tutorial
- How to quickly copy a database from an old server to a new server
- Upgrade your linksys WRT54G version 8 to DD-WRT and make it awesome
- The Joel Test
- Merb and Chronic – Natural Language Date Parsing
- Merb Beginner’s Tutorial
- How to install gems for Ruby Enterprise (REE) and Phusion (passenger, mod_rails)
- Install ImageScience on slicehost ubuntu hardy
- Time zone support in Rails 2.1
- Adding custom routes to rails
- Tips for using rspec for beginners
- Replace text in strings with ruby gsub
- David Heinemeier Hansson on making money
- Bill by the hour
- No!Spec letter
- Adjusting contrast on your mac
- Named Scopes
- Ruby on Rails order by associated model – find.(:order => ’’)
- Installing Ruby Enterprise on slicehost
- Adding categories to your rails blog
- Uploading multiple images with paperclip
- How to install ImageMagick on Tiger
- My latest capistrano deploy.rb file using a deploy_via :copy
- Configuring nginx to use www.domain.com instead of domain.com
- Scheduled Tasks with Cron in a Rails app
- UPDATED – Email validation/activation with rails, restful_authentication, and gmail smtp
- Autotest
- How to check for all your rake tasks
- How to open files in terminal
- My Terminal bash settings
- WP-Syntax
- Slicehost, nginx, mysql, php, wordpress setup
- Rails model validation without database using active_form
- Pluralization in Rails
- Handling validations across associations in Rails
- Remove and Add columns to the database the Rails 2.0 way
- Dynamically hiding/toggling a textfield with a drop down select box using rails and javascript
- Using Capistrano and git to deploy from a local location
- Managing Linux Users
- Installing git on your slicehost and managing it with gitosis
- Test if a string is an integer with Ruby
- How to setup wysiwyg editing for rails – yui_editor
- How to put a partial form in form_for
- How to rewrite urls with nginx
- DRYing up your controllers in rails with find_filter plugin
- Setting up Apache vhost (multiple) websites on slicehost
- Postback action for email
- Contact email form with Ruby on Rails and GMail (plus, reply-to error)
- Launching your rails app with passenger on slicehost
- Use wp super cache plugin to make your wordpress blogs run faster and your apache run better
- Setting up email to work for wordpress on slicehost
- How to watch your swap on slicehost
- Setting up ssl on nginx on slicehost with ssl_requirement plugin
- Making Apache run lighter on slicehost
- Brand new 256 mb slice memory usage
- How to check your ubuntu version on slicehost
- Using google charts api with rails (googlechart gem)
- Trying out mongrel instead of thin
- Passenger (mod_rails) versus Thin on nginx
- How to add additional routes to restful rails controllers
- Using paperclip for image attachments in rails
- Reagan Quotes
- Automate mysql backup with amazon s3
- RubyScript2Exe – turning your ruby script/app into a .exe on windows
- Useful scripts with mechanize, hpricot, and htmldoc
- Installing Ruby on Windows and Setting up Watir on Windows
- Scrubyt perks and rules
- Scrubyt screen scraping tutorials
- Top Rails plugins
- scrubyt rubyinline error on install
- Thank you MarsEdit
- Getting stock quote data into your rails app
- How to convert Time.now to Date
- Adding roles to restful_authentication
- Friendly urls and slugs in rails
- Creating random banner images
- self-assigned ssl certificates on nginx vhosts
- mysql decimal column and rails problem
- gravatar for rails app
- Useful server terms & commands
- Watching over your server with the free command
- Manage your mysql production databases on slicehost using CocoaMySQL and tunnel through SSH
- Deploying your rails app on slicehost with git (github), nginx virtual host, and thin
- Mysql command line tricks
- AJAX paginate with rjs and will_paginate
- strftime, ruby
- Geektool is pretty cool
- nginx default host
- How to get phpmyadmin setup with nginx on slicehost
- ssh with a different port
- Setting up slicehost
- Vim editing cheatsheet
- Removing and Deleting old git releases
- motte_cms – a basic rails based content management system
- SQLite Manager
- Adding/Inserting content into a table within a rails migration
- syntax error, unexpected ‘\n’, expecting tCOLON2 or ‘[’ or ‘.’ in rails migrations, sqlite3
- Getting sqlite3 to work on Tiger with Rails 2.1.0
- Simple search form with Ruby on Rails
- Virtual Attribute – joining first_name and last_name into full_name with Rails
- exception_notification plugin install
- AJAX delete button, link_to_remote with rails
- Fixing NULL value problem in rails
- Normalizing data through the model before pushing to the database
- Select drop down box for page parent (collection_select & acts_as_tree)
- Using MarsEdit now as my desktop blog publisher
- Ajaxy image uploading with attachment_fu – undefined method ‘content type’ error
- Ajaxy commenting with Rails and RJS templates in Rails 2.0
- How to setup TinyMCE for Ruby on Rails
- Using ssl
- Blogo is pretty nifty
- Backing up an entire site with cpanel
- Map Location field extension for Symphony
- Mootools Fx.slidein on load
- Became a Licensed Private Pilot
- Fixing rails Cookie Overflow error
- Generate PDFs
- Rails date manipulation / styling
- Importing CSV in rails with fastercsv
- restful_authentication
- Exporting as csv in rails
- Date Range SQL clause in ruby
- Gruff graphs
- Sort by date – year, month, and day
- Rewrites in rails
- Optizimizing your rails app for the iphone
- Developing on mac with internet explorer – vmware
- Dealing w/ main navigation in rails
- Symbolic link
- MySQL command line cheat sheet
- Removing .svn files and folders
- Completed ?Taxation ? Partnerships? UCR extension class with an A-
- Deploying with Git and Capistrano
- Freezing rails and gems
- Accessing associated table data with rails.
- Email validation/activation with rails
- Rails find with conditional dates
- graphs with rails
- Autocomplete in rails 2.0
- Rescue – how to supress a nil NoMethodError
- How to include a lib file in your environment.rb
- Full text searching in rails
- Pagination in Rails 2.0
- Rails 2.0 link_to_remote, RESTful routes link_to_remote
- Rails 2.0 link_to_remote, RESTful routes link_to_remote
- Lightbox with rails – use redbox
- How to do date, datefields, datetime like 30boxes
- HTML Ampersand & Character codes
- Javascript newsticker
- attachment_fu plugin
- Helper Method
- Git command list
- Rails 2.0 command list
- Transferring locally developed symphony site on MAMP to your web hosting
- Launched Motte Managers LLC as a California Investment Adviser
- Shot 69 at Victoria Club
- Soloed an Airplane
- Launched GetWhistlebox.com. Free political websites. First web app attempt.
- Passed Series 65 Uniform Investment Adviser Law Examination
- Launched TownHallWebDesign.com
- Pepperdine University – Bachelor of Science in International Business
- All League Golf
- California State Cross Country Champions
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