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Timelines.com Launches; RailsConf 2009

Geoff, Zach, Trevor, Bob, Brian, and I (Scott) recently launched Timelines.com. Timelines is a place for people to record and share history about any topic. We want it to be the Wikipedia of event-based information, but unlike Wikipedia we want everyone to have a voice and add their own perspectives (and photos, videos, etc) about [...]

Internet World: What's the Point?

Last week, the greatest client in the world & I travelled to London to the Internet World exhibition. Ian asked me about whether it was worth it. Let me try to paint a picture for you:

RailsConf 2009: Vegas Edition

If you’re in Vegas for RailsConf, we’d love to meet you! Jesse Newland will hanging out in the Caboose Conf room during the day, hacking on Moonshine. Feel free to drop by if you’d like to learn more about Moonshine, chat about Rails deployment, or anything else. Remember: our Ask Us Anything Support is always valid in person.

Author Interview - The Well-Grounded Rubyist

Now that Manning has released The Well-Grounded Rubyist by David A. Black, I wanted to sit down with him and talk a bit about his new book.

His Ruby for Rails set an awfully high bar as the book that really explained Ruby to Rails users (and everyone else). The current title has been called a "reworking" of the former to remove the Rails bias.

Hopefully this interview will whet your appetite

Edit CSS in Any Browser With the Click of a Button

So, a few weeks back I showed you how you could see your CSS changes in real-time in any browser. That was cool and all, but I haven’t found myself using it simply because of the convenience factor. The script (along with jQuery) had to be included in the page, whereas I could just fire up Web Developer Toolbar in an instant.

Putting our Running Shoes on for Charity

In a change from our usual bums on seats position, we've decided to take part in a couple of running events this summer.

RailsBridge is Born

rails_bridge.pngI surely don’t have to introduce last week’s Ruby/Rails earthquake to anyone by now - it has been covered by a boatload of blogs (including this one), analyzed, argued over, rebutted, reddited, dugg and whatnot - suffice to say, it’s time to move on.

Routing for SEO

Routing is one of those aspects of Rails which tends to get neglected. By just making a few small changed, you can significantly contribute to your SEO effort and to the readabilty/navigability of your web app.

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Pretty URLs For Date Related Data

If you have a blog, like I do, you may want to make your post archives available via easy to understand URLs. To do this you can create a new route in you routes.rb file as follows:-

Memento RPM

Last week we finally had use for New Relic's RPM service which we have been using for the last couple of months. Our cluster is approaching it's application limit and we are using RPM to monitor it closely.

I found myself needing a quick glance of how our apps are doing wherever I am. Therefore I started work on a small app that would gather and display the RPM statistics using their new API.

GitHub Rebase #20

Yet another Sunday, yet another Rebase!

Farkle on Shoes v0.1 | Rails Fire

Farkle on Shoes v0.1

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