Archive

Clients writing Cucumber stories?

07 Sep 2010

Trying to clear some misconceptions about Cucumber while telling you my reason for not using it.

The mighty reflog and the amazing bisect

30 Aug 2010

Telling you what Git's reflog and bisect do and why they're awesome.

Git your act together

23 Aug 2010

Explaining some things that I think would make using Git a bit more enjoyable when working in a team.

Why aren't you using git-flow?

19 Aug 2010

Using Vincent Driessen's branching model and Git extensions to keep your repositories organized.

Bundler, because your gems depend on gems too

16 Aug 2010

Bundler made gem dependencies in Rails projects a lot easier, but what about gems themselves?

Node.js, web sockets and talking mice

09 Aug 2010

Wrapping up my Node.js web socket experiment with a mouse chat.

Things I learned from my Node.js experiment

03 Aug 2010

After letting my Node.js and web sockets experiment run for a week, I decided to improve the code a bit.

Experimenting with Node.js

26 Jul 2010

Using Node.js and a bit of jQuery to annoy you.

Abandoned open source projects

19 Jul 2010

About some problems I'm having with old open source projects and a Github feature request to try and fix them.

Stop hacking, start fixing

12 Jul 2010

Highlighting some mistakes I made in Navvy's specs, providing a solution and suggesting you do the same.

Stumbling into Vim

06 Jul 2010

After using Textmate for everything In the last few years, I checked out Vim last week. Here's what happened.

Finally: Releasing Navvy 0.3

28 Jun 2010

Announcing a new version of Navvy, the database agnostic Ruby background job processor.

Railsconf 2010

14 Jun 2010

About some of my personal highlights from Railsconf 2010 in Baltimore.

Daemonizing Navvy with God

31 May 2010

Let's stop using the included daemon script and actually monitor our background process, shall we?

Rise of the Navvy

24 May 2010

The what, why and how of the database agnostic Ruby background job processor.

I Bugmashed

19 May 2010

My experiences in the May 15 & 16 Rails 3 Bugmash.

Setting up MongoDB, MongoMapper, GridFS, Devise & Carrierwave on OSX

17 May 2010 by @matsimitsu

This would have saved me a lot of trouble.

Testing your Machinist blueprints

10 May 2010

A little spec I wrote to ensure my blueprints stay in shape.

Steak: because Cucumber is for vegetarians!

03 May 2010

Minimalist acceptance testing using pure Ruby with Rspec, Steak and Webrat or Capybara.

Making Machinist master MongoMapper & Mongoid

26 Apr 2010

Using machinist_mongo to use Machinist with mongoDB ORMs.

Authenticating via Github with Guestlist

19 Apr 2010

Introducing Guestlist: a Rubygem for user authentication using Github credentials.

Simple authentication with Warden

13 Apr 2010

No registration or confirmation. Authentication middleware that gets the job done.

Don't put your *.gemspec in your Rakefile

03 Apr 2010

Why *.gemspecs in repositories aren't as stupid as I thought and why Rakefiles don't have anything to do with anything.

.gitignore your *.gemspec

02 Apr 2010

Being overly dramatic about putting the *.gemspec in your gitignore file to keep people from patching it.

“Dude, what's up with this background image?”

27 Mar 2010

About the mobypicture-auto-website-background-image-fetcher.