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More Rails Speed with asset_packager Plugin 3 Feb 2009 | 05:05 am
One of the many strategies for speeding up your Rails application is to serve exactly one CSS file and exactly one Javascript file. It is often more convenient to have multiple files in development an...
A Simple Class Based Logger in Rails 2 Feb 2009 | 09:56 pm
In a project I was working on there were several classes that were involved in a lot of background processing. In order to monitor the behavior of this background processing I wanted a separate log fi...
Screencast: Hover Content in Rails and Prototype (Part 1) 23 Jan 2009 | 09:58 pm
Screencast: Hover Content in Rails and Prototype from Erik Andrejko on Vimeo. It is often a good idea to show content when the user hovers the mouse above a link or an element in a page. This techniq...
User Testing Exposes Hidden Assumptions 23 Jan 2009 | 12:35 am
Design is all about assumptions. If you don't assume anything how can you get started? Good design means getting those assumptions correct. Often times these assumptions will be wrong, and many of tho...
Blazing Fast Speeds with Sinatra and Memcached 20 Jan 2009 | 03:26 am
Sinatra is a wonderful small Ruby web framework built on top of the Rack interface. Sinatra is very fast out of the box making it perfect for light weight tasks. Sinatra does not come with support for...
