Hotspotr partners with LightPole for Mobile
Hotspotr – my community-driven WiFi hotspot site – announced a content-providing partnership with LightPole today. You can read the press release over at http://lightpole.net/press/index.html.
PagePacker 1.3
MacSome small fixes – some users complained that the top and bottom margins were too large, so I’ve made the call: All modern printers...
VPS options + nginx w/ deprec
Staging environments are the perfect excuse to dig into new server configurations, and to play around with tools like Deprec. I have covered the...
Hands on with Scout at Atlanta Ruby User Group
Back-End Full-Stack WebLast night, I demoed Scout to a room-full of Rubyists at the Atlanta Ruby User Group Meeting.
Lessons from the Trenches at Acts As Conference
Back-End Full-Stack WebFor those who missed my talk at the most excellent Acts As Conference put on by the good folks at Rails For All in...
Auto-Login for Any URL in Rails
Back-End Full-Stack WebOne of our current projects at Highgroove sends a lot of email to its users. It essentially walks them through a process and...
BigShow
Conferences MacAt Big Nerd Ranch, we follow a pretty minimal style for our slides. It is important to us, however, that our slide shows go...
See PlaceShout, Other New Apps at SF Beta Tonight
Back-End Full-Stack WebAndre and I will be at SF Beta tonight demoing PlaceShout, our short-form local reviews service.
Graphing Rails Performance With Scout
We’re using Scout, our monitoring and reporting application, to graph the performance of our Rails applications and servers.
Making it easier to eat healthier
Better = more work. Tools that “make better easier” are rare.
Web App Service Plan Subscriptions
We’re working on our subscription plans for Scout. While working on the plans, we took a look at what other subscription-based services are charging...
Howto: PostgreSQL on Leopard gotchas
For a recent Rails project, I had to use PostgreSQL instead of the standard MySQL for the database. Setting up Postgres on Mac OS...
