http://productive.dk Ruby on Rails Consulting and Application Development Mon, 08 Nov 2010 13:55:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en "About five weeks ago":http://twitter.com/hvirring/status/12035555530 I launched a new version of "scrum.dk":http://scrum.dk/. The site was rebuilt from the ground up using several bits and pieces of technology that I had wanted to try out for some time: * Refinery CMS * ThemeForest * Heroku "Refinery CMS":http://refinerycms.com/: There are currently three Rails based CMSs that I ... http://productive.dk/2010/05/18/relaunching-scrum-dk.html Problem: You need to use attachment_fu for uploads in Rails, and would like to store your uploads in an Amazon S3 EU bucket. Amazon updated their API long ago, when they made EU buckets available, but for some reason the defacto standard library for working with S3 from Ruby, AWS::S3, ... http://productive.dk/2010/04/06/make-attachment_fu-and-refinery-cms-work-with-amazon-s3-eu-buckets.html Last week Scrum.org launced a redesigned homepage. As part of the redesign I assisted with the development and customization of courses.scrum.org. Founded by Ken Schwaber, the co-creator of Scrum, and other leading international Agile experts, Scrum.org provides a complete solution for companies seeking high-impact results from Scrum and Agile development. One of ... http://productive.dk/2010/03/20/scrum-org-launches-course-registration-site.html Just found this draft post, that I had almost forgotten about. If you need to monitor POST requests to your Rails application for whatever reason, here is an easy way of doing it: class HomeController < ApplicationController skip_before_filter :verify_authenticity_token, :only => :post_up def index end ... http://productive.dk/2010/03/19/monitoring-rails-post-requests.html This week I launched a new site for The Scrum Training Institute at "scrumtraininginstitute.com":http://scrumtraininginstitute.com. If you're getting started with Scrum or Agile these are the experts you want to learn from! Currently their team consists of Jeff Sutherland (co-creator of Scrum), Jens Østergaard (a fellow dane), Gabrielle Benefield and Pete ... http://productive.dk/2008/09/18/scrum-training-institute-on-rails.html If you are running the just released Rails 2.1.0 and have disabled ActiveRecord, you will likely run into problems launching script/server. The culprit is the new config/initializers/new_rails_defaults.rb, which should test to see if ActiveRecord is loaded. The "bug report is here":http://rails.lighthouseapp.com/projects/8994/tickets/303-configs-initializers-new_rails_defaults-rb-should-check-for-disabled-frameworks#ticket-303-2 and the patch "AR can be disabled, new_rails_defaults.rb should check" has ... http://productive.dk/2008/06/03/rails-210-without-a-database.html I don't usually work on "plain old websites", but I had an itch to try out "Radiant CMS":http://radiantcms.org, and so I decided to take a small gig building a showcase site for a real estate developer (or property developer, depending on which side of the pond you're on). So far Radiant ... http://productive.dk/2008/02/06/my-latest-radiant-project-is-now-live.html "Pragmatic Dave on Passion, Skill and 'Having A Blast'":http://www.infoq.com/interviews/dave-thomas-agile-passion: bq. ... you should be investigating your tools set and you should be trying different techniques and different ways of doing things. And maybe then, more and more it looks back into practices. And that's not just to make you better at ... http://productive.dk/2008/01/29/java-programmer-equals-maintenance.html David "just announced":http://weblog.rubyonrails.com/2008/1/20/railsconf-europe-08-get-your-proposals-in "RailsConf Europe '08":http://www.railsconfeurope.com/: bq. The conference is returning to Berlin and the conference will happen between the 2nd and 4th of September. Registration will open in May 2008. Hope to see you there. http://productive.dk/2008/01/21/railsconf-2008-europe-announced.html You can now "submit your proposal":http://en.oreilly.com/rails2008/public/cfp/6 for "RailsConf 2008":http://en.oreilly.com/rails2008/ taking place May 29-June 1, in Portland. With that off my chest, I can move on to the real purpose for this post: The photo, taken at RailsConf 2007 and featured on the frontpage of the RailsConf 2008 site, has yours truly ... http://productive.dk/2007/10/30/railsconf-2008-submit-your-proposals.html *Exploits of a Mom* Now why didn't I think of that? Naming your kids Magnus and Frida suddenly seems very unoriginal. From "xkcd":http://xkcd.com. http://productive.dk/2007/10/11/sanitize-your-database-inputs.html Just got in. Looking forward to lots of fun in the coming days. I'll be tumbling my notes at "railsconf07.productive.dk":http://railsconf07.productive.dk/. *If you need a freelancer for your (next) project, come find me and lets talk*. If you don't need a freelancer, come have a chat anyway ;) http://productive.dk/2007/09/17/at-railsconf-europe-in-berlin.html Or as "Joel Spolsky puts it":http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2007/08/18.html: bq. I've been using Vista on my home laptop since it shipped, and can say with some conviction that nobody should be using it as their primary operating system -- it simply has no redeeming merits to overcome the compatibility headaches it causes. Whenever anyone ... http://productive.dk/2007/08/20/its-official-vista-blows.html As described in the "Calling TextMate from Other Applications":http://macromates.com/textmate/manual/using_textmate_from_terminal chapter in the "TextMate Manual":http://macromates.com/textmate/manual/ bq. There is one command which does not support giving arguments in the EDITOR variable, it is crontab (which is sort of obsoleted by launchd). If you need to use it, you can create a symbolic link ... http://productive.dk/2007/08/17/making-textmate-and-sqlplus-play-nice.html Apple released a bunch of new and updated products today: * "New iMacs":http://www.apple.com/imac/. I would buy one today if I had the slightest use for it. It looks absolutely gorgeous. * "Updated Mac minis":http://www.apple.com/macmini/. Yay! We can still get cheap Mac servers. * "New wired and wireless keyboards":http://www.apple.com/keyboard/. I love the wireless without ... http://productive.dk/2007/08/07/apple-updates-today.html