http://mikekrisher.com Covers topics ranging from Web Applications and Mobile Devices to Fort Wayne, IN Sat, 06 Feb 2010 19:12:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We're looking to add to our team again. If you are passionate about Ruby and Rails, come join me and the team: http://jobs.barefootproximity.com/2010/01/27/senior-rails-developer/ http://mikekrisher.com/?p=566 Going through the update process today on a site built over a year ago. It had an older version of Rails frozen and I was simply trying to update to a newer version of the gem. Issuing the rake rails:freeze:gems command didn't work. Got the following: rake aborted! undefined method `manage_gems' for Gem:Module I ... http://mikekrisher.com/?p=564 I'll be giving a presentation on Git and Github tonight at the local Web professionals meeting. Details here: http://www.screamingmonkeys.org/ Join us if you are here. We'll start off on beginner and work our way to more advanced topics should people want that. http://mikekrisher.com/?p=562 I've been fortunate enough to work on the Mickey's beer site for three years now. And each year the pieces we add on are recognized and awarded. This year was no exception. The Mickey's site received the following at the regional ADDYS and are moving on to nationals: 3 GOLDS Mickey's Puzzle ... http://mikekrisher.com/?p=557 A client at Barefoot wanted to preserve their old Typepad blog posts in the new site we were building for them in Rails. I figured this might be a common task that others go through, so I wrote a Rake task and it's hosted at Github. It uses the TP ... http://mikekrisher.com/?p=554 I was tasked with moving a CakePHP based site from Dreamhost to a Grid Server at MediaTemple, and while doing so thought it would be a good time to get the site into Git and deploy with Capistrano. Turned out to be a little bit of headache. Last night I ... http://mikekrisher.com/?p=551 More of a note to self, but others may benefit. Keep in mind when doing a delete_all on your model to empty the table, that you may want to reset the auto_increment value if you are using mySQL. Reason being, if you are completely reloading data into a table, you may ... http://mikekrisher.com/?p=547 I'm a wannabe GTD geek (http://www.43folders.com/2004/09/08/getting-started-with-getting-things-done), trying to make todo lists and stay organized, etc... I have inbox zero down at this point. BUT, there were always two aspects of GTD that I have been looking for a good solution for. The first is keeping track of my time throughout the ... http://mikekrisher.com/?p=538 Rails Edge introduces Rails Metal, based on Rack. Think of it as a way to bypass the Rails framework on certain requests. DHH gives the example of the Campfire chat application. I'm thinking about Flash Remoting (AMF). No reason to really call a controller, walk through the Rails stack, just ... http://mikekrisher.com/?p=536 Scott Chacon has posted an entry using the new Github pages on how to edit commit messages in Git. Really handy and not necessarily the most intuitive thing. Great to have instruction. schacon FTW! By the way, the new Jeckyll based Github pages are sweet for developers working on open source ... http://mikekrisher.com/?p=534