This post is long overdue - a number of people have asked me how to convert between lat/long and mouse coordinates on an HTML page First, let's define some terms since otherwise...

Last time I gave kudos to Sapphire in Steel for the addition of a Ruby console to their debugger This time its kudos for Arachno Lother Scholz, the develeper, sent me an...

In the religious war between the command line and IDE (integrated development environment), I'm firmly on the IDE side Having said that, there's no substitute for having a...

Update: ruby-prof 050 is now available and has significantly more features than 040, including better threading support, rails support, call tree output, etc After porting...

Yesterday I wanted to profile some methods I'm using on a Rails controller To get a feel for profiling Ruby code I put together a test case, added a "require 'prof'" to the top...

I have an extra RailsConf ticket that unfortunately I can't use The cost is $400 (face value) If you're interested send me an email at cfis@interservcom The ticket has been...