While scanning through Allison’s copy of Designing for the Digital Age: How to Create Human-Centered Products and Services
The problem with software prototypes
It seems to be widely understood that industrial design and mechanical engineering prototypes—from paperclips and tape to polished...Zsh versus Bash. Fight!
...because we need another religious war in the developer community. ;-)
(skitch via Gary)
I asked on twitter but only got a small handful of responses. So, I’m taking it here.
Show me yours and I’ll show you mine. Your terminal prompt that you’re using. Inspire me with new ideas for my prompt.
Here is mine.
Now… show me yours.
We recently switched our default builds of Rails Boxcar to leverage the benefits of using Passenger (mod_rails) for deployment of your Ruby on Rails applications and it’s been working out great for our customers. Several of our customers and colleagues mentioned that they also began using Passenger in development, which was intriguing.
But… Mongrel has...
In my last post, Subdomain accounts with Ruby on Rails explaind, I mentioned that you’d need to modify your /etc/hosts file to use custom subdomains for development/testing. Apparently, there is a much better way to handle this that I was introduced to by Nathan de Vries. Nathan suggests using a gem that I...
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In our project, not everything needs to be scoped per-account as we are building a namespace for administrators of the application and...
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We’re currently using Lighthouse as our ticketing system with clients for maintenance/bug requests. We’re also using Github for all of our major client projects. I’m sure that many of you take advantage of the Lighthouse service that Github allows you to use so that your commits can trigger actions on your tickets in Lighthouse.
If you’re...
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In the meantime, you can now start to use the...
Do you find yourself copying and pasting the same code from Rails application-to-application as new projects start? Our team has a handful of projects in development right now and we notice that some of these reusable components tend to get out of sync when we bounce between projects. So, we’re making an effort to spot...
