mines!

This blog will now probably continue here . I'm not sure I'm up to putting any effort in transferring the  old posts.

To iterate on my olde poste  mines!: bash contexts about directory-specific shell scripts — via local ./.bashrc 's and the following li...

The previous version (for ruby 1.9) is here. It seems ruby-debug has fallen out of favour with the community and the replacement is byeb...

(a chat with their support after they've silently failed to take my money almost three weeks ago leaving my credit ver...

I've come to use a nice gem called mail_view for visual testing of email templates in Rails. I think it is totally legit and desirabl...

My very first Rails Pull Request! And meanwhile, you're welcome to copy

Use hash.fetch(key) instead of hash[key] whenever your Hash is constant and you expect the key to be one of the hash keys — it will rais...

Now put this in config/initializers/i18n_test.rb and spec it! N.B. Curiously enough, a similar technique is needed for 4.0 as well. P.S...

In every web developer's life there's a moment your baby wants to go secure, and this means putting your web app on HTTPS. That is,...

put it in spec/support/accessible_attributes.rb

Subdomains (or second level domains) are still a nice way to present separate interfaces to a single web app — commonly to give a certain ki...

As a rule of thumb, as of today, if you don't want trouble, make your HTML5 application cache manifest publicly accessible.

One of the things that have been annoying me for years — not Google , but rather vaguely related to the information technologies — are the c...

It is somewhat pathetic to criticise Google, a company which always strives to do what's best for us simple people — for free! But. I ...

It's always fun to see automatic translation, but watching google trying to translate Hebrew is twice as fun: modern-day residents of th...