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Witold Rugowski on web20 wave with Ruby on Rails

Did I just cross Rubicon?

Posted on July 25, 2008 - Filed Under RubyOnRails | Leave a Comment

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. You can also get updates by email Thanks for visiting!First time I did write test first, then code for that. Revision 543, Run-N-Share. Usually I wrote tests after I have working piece of code, as a mean to provide some sanity check [...]

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Ups and downs with samba

Posted on July 9, 2008 - Filed Under FreeBSD | Leave a Comment

Using Windows as development environment for Ruby applications is not very good idea. So I have moved to setup with FreeBSD on VMWare and access via samba to files. Far away from perfect but better than before. When I have changed VMWare player to VMWare server I made decision to create new virtual machine, since [...]

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Web application that has changed my life

Posted on July 8, 2008 - Filed Under Personal, Uncategorized | 2 Comments

Soon it will be two years since I was exposed to web application, which had probably most impact on me since AJAX was born. I have checked old time entries and it was August 2006 when I found SlimTimer. You ask – time tracking application had most impact on my life? Yes, exactly. (c) Brenda [...]

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When timeout hit You with Amazon SQS on FreeBSD/VMWare

Posted on July 7, 2008 - Filed Under FreeBSD, RubyOnRails, tips | 2 Comments

I become fan of Amazon’s SQS and ActiveMessaging plugin recently. Great technology, make separating user interface and time consuming operations super easy. I will write about my experiences more, but now simple tip if You are running development environment on FreeBSD inside VMWare. Often when doing publish to some queue I got timeout, which results [...]

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Rails filters

Posted on July 3, 2008 - Filed Under RubyOnRails, tips | Leave a Comment

For those who have missed it, since Rails 2.0 just returning false does not break filter chain (read – action gets executed). Filter chain is broken only when filter render something or redirects. Just short reminder :) Popularity: 4% [?]

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