Developmentastic

  1. Needed to search lists of keywords in JS. Trying a simpler approach, but kept the liquid metal theme: http://bit.ly/9NjEOZ

  2. 1 phone call, a trip to the customer service center, and 3 additional phone calls to go from Comcast basic cable to the next step up.

  3. Spent the morning trying to figure out pricing to simply charge credit cards. I can see why people use PayPal. One signup, no middlemen.

  4. Use Ruby modules and focused classes to make your code cleaner and test suite peppier. Let Them Code Cake! http://bit.ly/9sI7gG

  5. @lof Another option is acts_as_archive: http://github.com/winton/acts_as_archive

  6. @jnunemaker You should present at 10gen’s NoSQL conference on how @harmonyapp is utilizing MongoDB. http://10gen.com/events

  7. @pengwynn I did! A friend of mine, Nigel Soladu, sent me an internet letter offering me a business opportunity and I went with it.

  8. @pengwynn Unfortunately I just had to open a Bank of America account for the sole purpose of accepting international wire transfers.

  9. Fixing N+1 queries like it’s my job.

  10. @DDrDark Hi, person I’ve never met but have heard a lot about.

  11. @bylinebreak’s portfolio site running on @harmonyapp just went live: http://bylinebreak.com

  12. @jnunemaker Do you have any experience serving files from GridFS? Is it fast? Ready for production? Is S3 a better option?

  13. That’s a first. Previous dev wanted to call #link_to in a controller so he wrote a partial and called #render_to_string. Not a pretty sight.

  14. I must be doing something wrong. Here’s the code I came up with to stub file uploads to Cloud Files: http://gist.github.com/262919

  15. Doing work on a project rescue where the previous developer used AMQP to run slow, unindexed database queries in the background.

  16. Finally got around to uninstalling MacPorts and using Homebrew exclusively. A package manager using git and ruby seems too good to be true.

  17. My new toy: Using slime to execute cucumber features http://cld.ly/bfqxu

  18. @rsoule You like 30 Seconds to Mars too?! I love the new Our Lady Peace - Spiritual Machines. It was so intriguing, I also bought the book.

  19. @alobodig I’ve been using @harvest for a few months now and love it. Great time tracking with their dashboard widget and simple invoicing.

  20. @daverobertson I love how you tweaked your avatar! Nice job.