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Software development thoughts, ideas, practices and other technology tidbits

Wednesday, September 7, 2016

Inheriting Attributes in a Tree Data Structure

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I just published a new gem, inherited-attributes , for Active Record  that works with the Ancestry gem to provide a tree data structure the...
Thursday, July 7, 2016

List EC2 Instances in Hubot

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I like slack .  I like automating things. I hate email.  Therefore, I like Hubot .  I've written Hubot scripts that integrate with our t...
Tuesday, July 5, 2016

Posting Amazon Autoscaling Notifications to Slack

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Dev-ops  has become a little bit of a buzz-word, but its something I've come to embrace and enjoy; automating our infrastructure and dep...
Friday, May 27, 2016

Popups on your Popups

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We've been using Bootstrap 3 for a lot of the newer screens in our application - particularly our internal, administrator facing s...

Capistrano Deploys without Swap

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I work on a Ruby on Rails application that is deployed with Capistrano 3 to Amazon Web Services.  We monitor our site performance with New ...
Tuesday, February 10, 2015

Labeling Rails Enums

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Rails 4.1 introduced ActiveRecord Enums , a handy little feature that lets you store an integer in a database column, but use symbols or st...
Tuesday, November 11, 2014

A fun IE9 surprise

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Every time I have to debug an IE9 (or lower) issue, a puppy dies. You don't want puppies to die do you? Browse happy: http://t.co/v4MCw...
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