June 2009
23 posts
validation_clusters
A tiny Rails plugin that lets you use block syntax to specify multiple validations for a given field:
class Person < AR::Base
validates_presence_of :name
validates_field :bio do |of|
of.presence :on => :update
of.length :on => :update, :maximum => 140
end
# The above block is functionally identical to writing:
validates_presence_of :bio, :on => :update
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5 minute usability study
caterpillarcowboy:
Hey folks,
A friend of mine is a Product Manager over at Answers.com, and she’s looking for people to do a quick usability study. The study is super easy (and the technology is neat, I’ll have to try this myself): you are given a task and shown a mockup of a web page. You then click on the part of the web page that would bring you closer to solving your task. That’s it.
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YES. Got the green light today to port a PHP project for a client over to Ruby/Rails. This officially marks the end of my days where PHP plays a regular role.
Have a big idea but aren't a developer?
I will design + build it for you at half my normal hourly rate.
[to andy - I can’t email you if I don’t have your email address!]
HIRE ME.
Tumblr's Directory Is Broken
joelaz:
Of the 50 most recent posts from each of the top 25 blogs in the Music Directory, only 4% are actually audio posts. I checked. The Tumblr Directory is ranked by Tumblarity. Tumblarity encourages quantity over quality. The one possible benefit I saw from Tumblarity is that it could potentially provide a valuable way to surface sites in the directory, but that doesn’t seem to be the...
Disabling auto-bucket creation for Paperclip
If you’re using Paperclip with S3 storage and getting a BucketAlreadyExists exception, it’s because the default behavior is to attempt to auto-create your bucket if it doesn’t exist. For me at least, 99% of the time I’ve already created the bucket(s) I’ll need, which results in this exception when trying to upload a file. To disable this behavior, around line 161 in...
Running PHP 5.2.9 on CentOS 5.2 - Why aren’t posix_*() functions defined in PHP, even though I have posix and pcntl (and CLI) support compiled in? What the hell?
Tumblr sucks today
caterpillarcowboy:
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Food Food (yay!)
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Funny, reminds me of Twitter today, too. Except replace food with “look what I just blogged about.”
Wanted: Dev for small (~$5k) ecommerce project
Need someone who can do HTML/CSS build out of designs, then build small store (you know, with a cart and products and all of that) using Drupal (or maybe Shopify, depending on client decision). Budget is around $5k. Email for more info.
Thanks.
Domain Names
innonate:
schlomo:
nickdouglas:
rickyv:
Naming a new company. Anybody have any great domain names they’d want to sell? Preferably one word?
I own whoamg.com. No one has yet agreed that this name is brilliant.
I have moneythong.com, which could only make someone bucketloads of skrilla.
I own “etrosexual.com” — which, of course, would let you have m.etrosexual.com and r.etrosexual.com on...
lickystickypickyme:
Anger? ‘Tis safe never. Bar it! Use love.
Spell that backward and you get:
Evoles ut ira breve nefas sit; regna!
Which is Latin for:
Rise up, in order that your anger may be but a brief madness; control it!
My old roommate made this enjoyable video film. →
