Faster Auto-Completion with Rails
Back-End Full-Stack WebAuto-Complete is a great tool when it provides possible results BEFORE you finish typing. Unfortunately, using Rails’s included AJAX helpers to query the database...
Record-Shattering SF Ruby Meetup
Back-End Full-Stack WebAnother San Francisco Ruby Meetup. Another record-breaking attendance mark (has any Ruby group in the world brought together more than 110 people?).
We Love Rails Day 2006
Back-End Full-Stack WebJust to prove how much we love Rails Day 2006, we’re sponsoring the event. Slingshot Hosting is going to be giving away 6 months...
Real Rails Apps: The Guided Tour
Back-End Full-Stack WebI’ll be giving a Rails presentation to OK.rb this coming Tuesday (June 13th). Anyone in the OKC area is more than welcome to...
Atlanta and Silicon Valley
ClientsAtlanta Technology Executive (and recent friend) Scott Burkett blogged recently on what Atlanta can do to emulate the entrepreneurial environment of Silicon Valley. Having...
Experiments with Python, PyObjC, and Cocoa
MacAs a consultant, I am working on a piece of software for an engineering firm. The engineers would like an easy way to...
Simple Rails Business Hosting With Slingshot
Back-End Full-Stack WebWe love Ruby on Rails - since 2005, all of our applications have used the web framework. But we don’t enjoy deploying Rails...
Configuring WebDAV for cross-platform file sharing
Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) is an often-overlooked protocol that can provide cross-platform file sharing with minimal client-side configuration. This article explains...
Simple Debugging in PEAR::DB
Back-End Full-Stack Web Leveling UpOne of the most important (and least loved) activities in a programmer's life is debugging code. When debugging PHP, there are several strategies, ranging...
Updated Palettes/Frameworks chapter for “Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X”
MacWith recent versions of Xcode, the palettes exercise in Cocoa Programing for Mac OS X has become unusable. These days, when you...
Updated Palettes/Frameworks chapter for "Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X"
MacWith recent versions of Xcode, the palettes exercise in Cocoa Programing for Mac OS X has become unusable. These days, when you...
Uploading Files with PHP
Content management is a nearly universal challenge when discussing any data-driven web site. As a developer, you can create your own system or use...
