You know how you tell when an app for the iPhone was written in MonoTouch? It doesn’t leak memory...
What happens if the iPhone application you’ve based a business on is found to depend on a library that...
Though we ended up switching to what I consider to be a technically superior product based on simplicity, we arrived...
Unfortunately vanilla Ruby modules lack support for many idioms popular in modern Ruby. Most importantly, we have become accustomed to...
Next in our series on not shooting yourself in the foot: Doing a sudo shutdown -h now on the main...
I love Cucumber, but I hate writing step definitions. They are ugly, awkward to write and very, very boring: Most...
Steak is like Cucumber but in plain Ruby.
Rails plugin which adds a convenient way to override attr_accessible protection.... You can mark certain attributes as trusted for...
This thing leaves any other tag-completion method I have ever seen for HTML in the dust. It's light...
I wanted to jot down some of my thoughts on country roads, so that customers of our iCar may better...
Rack middleware for rate-limiting incoming HTTP requests.
Pretty much everyone who claims to have a REST API, in fact, does not. The closest I’ve found is...
Inheritance is built into Chinese. You might as well use it.
The Aves Engine is a software development kit to generate spectacular isometric browsergames without the need for third-party plugins...
This seriously limits the kinds of applications you can develop on the iPhone. One notable exception, however, is the support...
"You're coming of age in a 24/7 media environment that bombards us with all kinds of content and exposes...
ShamRack mounts a Rack app locally, just for your tests. It goes one further: it “mounts” it using Net::HTTP...
As far as I know, the only plugin out there that handles this (semantic issue) correctly is Makandra’s Aegis...
Asset Fingerprint Plugin for Ruby on Rails - allows you to use md5 or timestamps in query string or in asset...
Once we have a secure client-side application, we need to make the tools and information available to allow users...
Chargify handles every aspect of recurring billing for your Web 2.0 or SaaS company so there’s no need to...
In order to find out whether I'm having a problem with link rot, I wrote a script that goes...