Archive for February, 2009

Hiivelogic: My Video and Slides from Acts as Conference 2009

Hiivelogic: My Video and Slides from Acts as Conference 2009
Slides have a great quote from Steve Jobs and the talk is really great.
Saying no to features is really difficult, but hugely important. It’s nice to see Dan Benjamin pushing developers to push back on requirements. It’s hard sometimes, but the end-product is really […]

Broken gets fixed…

DesignAday - Truism
“Broken gets fixed. Shoddy lasts forever.”
One of the developers I work with said this after I complained about a lingering issue in one of our products. It rings true. When deadlines are tight, and there is more work to get done[…]

I know this is true for any website I’ve ever worked on (except […]

Deploying a rails app on a suburi

I followed the instructions at the phusion passenger site and couldn't exactly get my app to run in a suburi - it kept trying to use that suburi when looking up routes.
I had found this:
WRONG!
PLAIN TEXT
RUBY:

ActionController::AbstractRequest.relative_url_root = "/rails"

However, there was a deprecation warning - and it seemed not to work at all. I then [...]