August 2010
How Does Solar Power Work?
fakescience:
WatchTransformers 3 shooting
WatchObtiva interview with Gary Levitt
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Working with Heroku gem and multiple environments
Quick tip: When using the same repo on multiple Heroku apps, such as staging, qa, production, you can pass a flag to heroku gem commands so that they are specific to the environment you want.
ie: heroku logs --app staging
Just pass the —app flag along with the name of your app on heroku (in this case the name of the app would be ‘staging’)… there you go. App specific...
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Don't get mad, get glad
As a software developer there are many different realms of knowledge that are necessary to be perceived as successful. There is so much information, even in one particular aspect, to be processed that even super brained comic book characters couldn’t keep up. So why do some feel it necessary to know everything? Not only that but get upset at themselves for not knowing. I understand...
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Besides not liking the syntax, yet another reason to not use #update_attribute.
It doesn’t run validations. This is news to me… anyone else?
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rspec-rails 2 Generators and Rake Tasks →
This has actually been tripping me up a bunch lately on new rails3 projects. I’m glad I stumbled across this because it does make everything easier. As in I don’t have to root around for that rspec.rake file I had in another project.
I’m sure someone out there has had this problem too… hope this helps.