Last weekend, I joined Webgeek Devcup but did not present anything as I was not ready. It was a really fun experience to join a hackathon for the first time. Great to have met some people there.
Continue reading »There's a reason why I bought and read this book apart from its rather catchy title: Engineering Long-Lasting Software: An Agile Approach Using SaaS and Cloud Computing, Alpha Edition.
Continue reading »The past few weeks have been unbelievably great. One of the reasons why is I attended the WebGeek PH 3rd Year Anniversay in Makati. It may be one of the last ones I'd attend this year. I could travel as far as Japan for the Ruby Conference or attend the next Geekcamp in Singapore. I've yet to decide.
Continue reading »Not sure if I'm the only one experiencing this but installing Ruby 1.8.7 using these commands don't work:
rvm install 1.8.7 or CC=/usr/bin/gcc-4.2 rvm install 1.8.7
This worked for me:
Continue reading »This is yet another guide.So much have been written. Probably replicates other guides which I have not checked. But this is updated for Rails 3.1.1.
This guide will constantly be updated as needed.
Continue reading »Been working on Rails 3.1 apps. There is a good reason to use it even if there are existing issues.
All of my current projects (for clients and personal projects) have already been upgraded to Rails 3.1 RC4. This includes www.33voices.com.
Continue reading »Realized nearly all of my projects involved logging user actions and having news feeds similar to Facebook. Two years ago, it didn't seem sensible to use a gem for just that because all you need is to create a module and helpers to log actions (on your model of course). A common mistake is adding code for logging actions, sending emails on controllers. Sometimes when you are young, you do stupid things.
Continue reading »First of all thank you for reading. Thanks to those who thanked me for blogging. Been very busy and hardly found time to blog.
In the past few years, Ruby's send method saved me from having to write several lines of code. Don't you ever forget about it.
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