I realized a couple of days ago that it was January of 2007 when I dove into the crazy world of freelancing full-time. It has been quite an adventure. In that time I've worked on a number of fun projects with an amazing assortment of awesome clients, launched two different products (Catch the Best in 2007 and Rails Kits in 2008), and learned a whole lot about how to (and how not to) run a business. It's been a blast.
More …For some reason I find myself starting new projects on holidays. Perhaps it's mental decompression, or just an excuse to have some fun. Either way, today's holiday project was a little smaller than usual -- I'm already done!
More …If you'd like to get a 404 response when you encounter a MongoMapper::DocumentNotFound error, which is the default response for ActiveRecord::RecordNotFound, simply toss this in your initializer where you set up your Mongo connection (I use config/initializers/mongo.rb):
More …If you'd like to go to RubyConf next week, but you don't have a ticket, you're in luck! Sadly, I can't go, so I have a ticket available for sale for $250. Drop me a line at ben at this domain if you're interested.
More …I'm still loving the EngineYard Cloud for my client deployments. I encountered one snag today, though, when cloning an environment for staging: Custom chef recipes do not get cloned along with the rest of the environment.
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