Over the past few months my little side projects haven't made it off the starting blocs. They have all had the same downfall of trying to achieve too much.. make a React app using Phoenix as the backend but spend...
I recently joined the Happiness squad at LostMyName and after a few days I was alerted by our customer service team that some of our customers were not receiving emails. ## The Problem At first I thought it was just...
I recently started a new full time job which is a little daunting, for the first time in a long while I am going to be owning this code not just for 3/6 months but for possibly years to come....
I am currently spending a month climbing in Spain before I start looking for a new job and in the process decided to setup up my old MacBook Pro for the journey. While I was moving my files over I...
I often find that the dependent parameter gets forgotten on projects. This is easy to do if you're new to Rails. When dependent is not set, nothing terrible happens at first… but once you get further into a project you...
On Ruby Rogues a few weeks back, Ben Orenstein mentioned he tries to spend 15 minutes a day improving his workflow and tools. I decided to take this onboard and this week I looked into how to paste...
My primary toolkit is the Ruby on Rails framework, and I mainly work with applications that have been in production for a while, which usually means they’re in need of a little pick-me-up. I thought it would be good to write...
I regularly work on projects where there are default pending specs and helpers/assets that are empty. This is bad for two reasons: firstly RSpec and the Asset pipeline still check/load these files which slows things down, and secondly they make...
I thought I would share this quick guide to setting up sending yesterdays logs without needing to install Sendmail or another heavy weight email client. Step 1. Install our lightweight SMTP client. sudo apt-get install ssmtp Step 2. Configure our client...
I pair with quite a lot of developers and one thing I have noticed is most of them only use one SSH keypair for all of their services/servers. This isn’t the worst security threat out there but it does pose...
