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Designers make things look good, developers make things work - at least that's how we traditionally think of things, right? Ok, I hear a low rumble of disagreement from some of you out there... but unless you're one of those people who really does bridge that divide, this is really is how we go about our daily business of making the internets.
Who Dug that Big Hole?
As a developer you may write some XHTML or dabble in CSS from time to time, but how often have you really taken the time to delve into what makes great design? Or do you relegate this to something for someone else to know? As a designer you may also code XHTML and even write CSS on a daily basis, but how much...
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Git is has become the new cool kid on the block, and for good reason. Git not only makes branching (and more specifically merging) much easier, but it also promotes good code management practices making it much easier to work with large numbers of commits over the course of months and years.
So let's get Git working for us! These instructions will work for most distro's but you may need to modify a command or two for your system.Installation
First we need to install git on our server. This site in hosted on Slicehost, and I am using Ubuntu so I run the following command,sudo apt-get install git-core
You should be able to run
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A couple of months ago I wrote another post about how much I value the Rails production log. Well once again, the production log once again came bearing more gifts... the story goes something like this: I am fascinated by tools that parse the information in the logs and present it in some unique way. One of the tools that I like to play with is the Rails Log Visualizer. The Visualizer is an Adobe AIR application that allows you to load a log and then displays the number of requests for each controller by day, month, or year. There are not a lot of features in the ap...
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I have been a Media Temple customer for a number of years and have been very satisfied with their product. However the longer I work with Rails the more I realize that they just are not yet Rails people. What do I mean by that? Well simply, I mean that the majority of the people at MT do not use Rails on a regular basis and thus are not in a position to provide some of the basic support I believe they should. There are exceptions of course, but given the fact that Media Temple charges more than other hosting companies, I expect a little more.
So after attempting to upgrade to Media Temples new dv 3.5 server this week and repeatedly having problems getting the latest versions of the Ru...
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If you have any sort of site where you are posting code as examples or for others to copy, you most likely are going to want an easy way to display that code in a distinguishable holder and if you can add syntax highlighting and maybe some line numbers you'd have a pretty nice system.
This is exactly where CodeRay comes in. There are a number of plugins for Rails that do similar things but I've found this one to be the easiest to install and most flexible to use. So let's take a look.Install
First you are going to want to install the CodeRay gemsudo gem install coderay
Once you have the gem insta...