As mentioned in a recent article1, I’ve been diving deep into Google Analytics lately while working on a few client projects. We’re aiming to use much more of the features of Google Analytics and have been hitting some roadblocks with the development versus production application environments. Once you begin to dive into event...
Planet Argon Podcast, Episode 1: Shin Splints
We’re currently waiting to get our new podcast approved by Apple, but have uploaded episode 1 to tumblr in the meantime.
In this short episode, we cover the following topics:
We’re planning to keep this short and focused to a few topics. Once it’s posted...
Email twice. Four months later
It’s been just over four months since I posted about my experiment, Email. Twice daily. No more, no less. where I shared my plans to restrict myself to checking email only twice a day at designated times. In the post, I had hinted at sharing my lessons months later. So, it’s time to throw...
RailsOnPg released
Hello fellow PostgreSQL and Ruby on Rails geeks,
Alexander Tretyakov (twitter) recently released a plugin for Ruby on Rails, which extends migrations and provides you with the ability to create.
While you can already do something like this with execute in your migrations:
execute("CREATE VIEW...Tracking AJAX-driven events in Ruby on Rails for Google Analytics conversion goals
Tracking your KPI’s is extremely important in your online venture. At a minimum, you should be using something like Google Analytics to track conversions in your application. Setting up goals is actually quite simple, especially if you’re just tracking that specific pages are loaded. However, if some of your conversion points occur through...
The 8-Hour Rails Code Audit
While our team is typically focused on larger client and internal projects, we do get an opportunity to assist businesses on a much smaller scale. Whether this be through retainer-based consulting or through code audits, we have seen a lot of Ruby on Rails code over what has nearly been… five years!? We’ve been able...
Flash Message Conductor now a Gem
We’ve been doing some early (or late… if you’re a half-full kind of person) spring cleaning on some of our projects. One of the small projects, flash_message_conductor, which we released last year as a plugin is now a gem. We’ve been moving away from using plugins in favor of gems as we...
Oh My Zsh gets an auto-updater
I wanted to publically thank everyone for helping me get Oh My Zsh out there and continue to improve it. Many of us spend a lot of time in our terminals throughout the day and I firmly believe that having a well-working shell is nearly as important as having a well-working texteditor.
While Oh My...
Planting the seeds
Yesterday, the Rails team released 2.3.4, which includes standardized way for loading seed data into your application so that you didn’t have to clutter your database migrations.
I noticed a few comments on some blogs where people were asking how to use this new feature, so here is a quick runthrough a few ways that you...
Oh My Zsh gets theme support
I just pushed a small change to Oh My Zsh, which gives it rudimentary support for themes. What I’m hoping to do is collect prompts from tons of people and make it simple for others to find a PROMPT that works well for them.
As of...
..and on the seventh day, Science created zsh
Inspired by some recent posts from Tom on zsh, I decided that I’d do my part to help people give it a whirl. I’ve been using zsh for a few years now and haven’t found myself missing bash.
If you’re interested in taking a few minutes to give zsh a while, you’re in luck. I...
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