Archive for April, 2008

Overrated, April 2008

Juno
Pitchfork recommendations
CSS frameworks
Javascript libraries
Insisting on always “rolling your own” (there’s a balance).
Tagging
A lot of Rails Plugins
Most social networks
Being a programmer
Being a manager of programmers
Being consistent
Being right
Having a strong opinion to blog about
What else?

Visualizing Your Next Domain Name


Trouble with acts_as_taggable_on_steroids

The tag_counts instance method appears broken. I don’t have time to submit a patch right now, so I figured I’d write a quick post for others running into this issue. What I’m seeing is that if you try to access the tag_counts instance method (ie: @post.tag_counts), you’ll see a good times SQL exception much [...]

Mandarin Mishima

Once you leave your blog idle for awhile, it can be surprisingly difficult to want to go back.

Rails Plugin for MailChimp

A plugin that beats the monkey metaphors to death:
script/plugin install git://github.com/matthewjcarlson/acts_as_chimp .
Let me know if it does or doesn’t work. It’s less a library then an implementation of a use case I’ve encountered a few times recently. As such, while plugins are falling out of favor a bit, I felt like a [...]