Can this designer also write?

More or less a quick reference for myself on how to set this up as it took me quite a few Google searches to figure out exactly the best method to get Mongoid cooperating with Heroku.

It’s almost been a year since my last post (which is kind of depressing), but life has been busy. I figured I would share a similar post as last, but utilizing Sinatra!

Amazing how little there is out there on this and most of which is old. Thanks to Facebook, what little there is, all of it has changed and here is some help.

How much of your life is consumed by digital technology? I found out the other day that pretty much everything of mine is.

Recently, I developed a project for a Cee Lo Green and Absolut Facebook application that required HTML5 video to be served. S3 decided to make my life complicated…sort of.

Posting from a form in Rails 3 using the new UJS structure is easy, but what happens when there is user error in saving the data?

A good developer understands that in order to make the product useful, it is always a good practice to find out what works best.

With the official new Rails 3 just released a couple of months ago, writing unobtrusive javascript with Rails actions has never been easier.

After completely wiping out a branch prematurely before a merge, more so than ever I love using Git to manage my project repositories.

There seems to be a split amongst Rails enthusiasts when it comes to using HAML in projects. Honestly, I am not sure what the big deal is about.

At first I was like, then I was like, and now I am like…

I am pretty comfortable with using git for my project repositories, but sometimes I slip up when executing commands. Hey, we all can be lazy at points.

Forms are the bread and butter of a website. From collecting information for accounts or posting comments on your friend’s Facebook profile. Too bad many web developers only worry about the pretty aspect and not the underlying semantics of forms.

I am a structured organization freak. Being a web designer and developer — both full time and freelance, can almost drive me nuts with the multiple email address and calendars that I have to manage. Luckily, Google has helped save my sanity.

When a branch of your code base needs to be shared to other team members, but currently resides only on your local repository, making it remote is a breeze.

Well at least like it has been released. Tagging a released code base is easy as pie and pretty dang helpful when a bug arises.

Working as a team and sharing code can easily bring up conflicts. Luckily there is a cool tool out there that is gaining strength in the developer community to ease this issue.

Sometimes I am plagued by fits of moods that take me to the design world and others to the coding. Just last week, I was hit by the must develop in Ruby bug.

I am not completely sure what the deal is with Internet Explorer and Javascript. I am not sure if it’s oblivious or just plain scared about using what would seem to be common programming methods.

About a month ago, Real Travel converted over to Rails from ASP.Net. Rails is packaged with the Prototype and Script.aculo.us javascript frameworks, but after in-depth research, they turn out to be very slow on the client side.

This is a look into the process and decisions behind not only a redesign of a top rated travel website, but a complete code base switch. It’s been a long time coming for Real Travel and it is definitely a change for the best.