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So why Heroku and why not leave my server on slicehost? I don’t have any issue with the slice but I want to upgrade the version of Typo just to stay uptodate and while at it wanted to explore a little. So of course I found an article on Getting T...
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Wow, RailsConf is over. It ended nicely with @garyvee giving a powerful and entertaining keynote covering many subjects but mostly his standard spiel on connecting with your customers or audience. I read his book, crush it, a while back and enjoyed it....
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Here we go again RailsConf 2010 has started. The keynotes will be streamed online at http://railsconf.com and the slides of the presentation will also be posted there. I’ll provide more links once they become available.This is the view fro...
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All right beside the cheesy title of this blog entry I did play a few weeks ago with Dashcode 3.0 to build an iPad app for a customer. After seeing the WWDC 2009 presentation on DashCode 3.0 I realized how much leaps and bounds DashCode made over the last two years. Checkout...
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One of the great “new” features of Rails (as of 2.3) is accepts_nested_attributes_for, allowing you to build cross-model CRUD forms without “cruddying” your controller. There are some great examples out there about how to do th...
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One of the great “new” features of Rails (as of 2.3) is accepts_nested_attributes_for, allowing you to build cross-model CRUD forms without “cruddying” your controller. There are some great examples out there about how to do this, but I’d like to walk thorough a particular use case—managing the “join” records in...
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Oops, I did it again. Abandoning an idea after I invested quite some time on it even before it was released. This morning I had a good talk with my wife on where I should go with this project. It’s always hard to call it quit after spending quite...
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UsageReport Downloader for Amazon Web ServicesTM is a simple tool to download all you usage reports with one click.

Install UsageReport Downloader

The files are download in your documents folder. You can change the default folder. You selection is kept for the next time.

Click the Download XML or Download CSV...
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I’ve been loving Rails BDD with Cucumber for the past year or so—it helps me focus on the next required step to build a feature in my application, and better focus equals better development velocity. However, one thing I found tedious in starting with Cucumber was defining route matchers in paths.rb.

The stock path_to...
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I’ve cross posted this call for help on the Amazon Web Service Discussion Forum.

I need your help understanding your usage reports logs for a visualization tool I’m currently developing.

I’ve been reading this forum for a while and found great information on it. The tool in question is for all Amazon services not just...
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