Installing Facebooker for Rails
WARNING: These instructions are for Facebook version 1 (not Facebooker2). Since last year, I have moved toward using a different…
Advanced CSS techniques
A few CSS techniques used by the pros.
“XML file does not appear to have any style information” when loading RSS in Firefox
Getting RSS feeds to work right; Firefox error message “This XML file does not appear to have any style information…
Ruby Debugger Primer
Very quick rdebug primer for using the debugger in Mongrel. <h1>Setting Up your Environment for Debugging</h1> gem install ruby-debug If…
Singular or Plural in Rails
Quick cheet-sheet to help you remember when to type a singular entity or a plural.
Firefox plug-ins I use
Web Developer — adds a robust set of tools to peek under the hood. Adds a toolbar to your windows…
Boolean OR operators evaluate left to right, and stops evaluating once it finds something that is true.
All programming languages work this way, but still it is nice to remember that Ruby does this. >> n =…
Coercion operations affect which order you might evaluate variables in
In trying to write code to give me the full name of “next” month (in my case, November, as today…
Configure git so that it shows green & red in my terminal
Create a file in your home directory here: ~/.gitconfig (The dot makes it invisible of course) In this file, you…
Object Equality & States in Ruby
A good area to spend some time for someone new to Ruby is to understand about objects. This serves as…