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Rails Reminder: DATE_FORMATS

A friend of mine recently asked me about adding time formats to Rails apps. It’s not completely intuitive on how to add new "default" symbols for date and time formats or to get a list of the built in ones. The API has the built-in lists of constants under DATE_FORMATS but it’s a bit difficult to read on that page.

Stand Up While You Read This!

The New York Times has an article up on standing while you work. People who sit all day without moving around much are at higher risk for medical problems typically associated with obesity. This includes doctors who even do the same job but just walk more during the day:

Using Concentrate for the Pomodoro Technique on OS X

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8 Chrome Extensions For Web Developers (Mac too!)

I’ve been using Google Chrome as my default browser ever since 1Password came out with an extension for Chrome. The state of web browsing on the Mac still, unfortunately, leaves something to be desired. However, after using this full time for a little while I can say that I’m really liking it. As a web developer I have a need for good developer tools in a browser. For that, Firefox and Firebug will always be king of the hill. Daily browsing and light development in Chrome has been suiting my needs just fine.

The Dev Show Episode 1

Dan Benjamin and I have launched a new podcast called The Dev Show. We aim to talk about new things in the programming community and point out things that may be of interest to developers. The first episode focuses on domain names, mongo db, javascript and a couple of other topics. Check it out!

Live blogging BizConf Day 2

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Day 1 of BizConf was phenomenal and I’m going to try and keep up the live blogging for day 2. I missed the lightning talks last night but heard great things from everyone who went. I’ve got my camera charged up today so I’ll try and get some pictures of the presenters as well.

Liveblogging Bizconf

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I’m lucky to attend BizConf so I thought I’d blog about my experience here. I can’t promise to get every presentation here but I’ll try my best. This post will be updated as things happen.

Impressions so far: amazing conference. I’ve never been to a conference where so many people are having difficulty choosing talks because they all look so interesting and useful.

Using the Rails logger outside of models and controllers

You can use the Rails logger outside of Rails models in at least version 2.3.X and up of Rails. You might be used to doing the following in your models or controllers: 

logger.info "Some debugging info I want to see in my development log."

If you make a regular model that doesn’t inherit from ActiveRecord, though, you may see the following error:

Getting RSpec and TextMate to play nice

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Microsoft deems Ruby on Rails a competitor

Numerous commercial software vendors offer competing software applications for connectivity (both Internet and intranet), security, hosting, and e-business servers. System Center competes with server management and server virtualization platform providers, such as BMC, CA, Inc., Hewlett-Packard, IBM, and VMWare in the management of information technology infrastructures.