Firebug
Just noticed that Joe Hewitt has posted an updated version of Firebug He's taken a great extension and turned it into the best Firefox extension by far Its an absolutely...
Rails and Content Negotiation Revisited
Let's revisit the subject of content negotiation in Rails Now that I've upgraded to Rails 11 I've had a chance to play with the new responds_to functionality To get some...
Need Help on HTTP Status Code
Imagine the following situation: You have an HTML sign up form for a userOne of the fields is for the user's emailThe user fills in the data and POSTs the response to the...
Typo Feed Content Types
Being a good web netizen, every few days I check that my blog and Yue's blog validate using the W3C feed validator (well someone has to serve valid content - of course having...
I’ve Been Found
Well it took 10 days but both Google and MSN have added me to their indices Sadly, Yahoo still doesn’t acknowledge my existence :) Its interesting watching the search...
Data and Reality
Every artistic endeavor strives to capture some slice of the world around us You might be trying to create as realistic a portrayal as possible, or maybe you're after a highly...
REST Controller for RAILS
Time to continue the REST and Rails theme Rails' most egregious violation of REST is that it exposes object methodsin URIs: http://myrailsappcom/users/show ...
Stats
Perhaps this is a bit vain, but after my first week of blogging I was curious how many people had wandered through I’ve heard people say good things about awstats so I gave...
Content Negotiation And Rails
Let's get back to REST and Rails One of the things Rails doesn't support is HTTPContent Negotiation Why would you want this Because different clients understand different content...
JavaScript and Semicolons
Did you realize that semicolons are optional in JavaScript I have to admit ignorance until just a few weeks ago - and I've been programming JavaScript on and off for seven...
My Thoughts on the Ruby Enterprise Debate
Thought I'd throw in my 2 cents on the ongoing Ruby Enterprise debate stirred up by James McGovern My main point - this isn't about technology but is about how technology...
REST Leading To Rails
From 2000 to 2004, Peter and I drove the development of GE Smallworld's InternetApplication Suite which made is possible for customers to put their complex-GIS applications onto...
YAML Troubles
So for MapBuzz we have some machines running on Ruby 182 and 184 And we use GEOS, a C++ library, for manipulating geometries These geometries are part of Rails test fixtures, and...
Hello World
Well, I figured it was time to start a blog before being passed by seemingly the entire world So let’s see how this goes Hopefully I’ll say at least one or two things that...