Rails 4 blank page on index action
We recently had an issue where Rails 4 was giving a blank page when calling the index action on some, but not all, controllers.
After some considerable frustration the ever useful @mikespokefire managed to solve it.
Someone who shall remain nameless (but may, or may not, have been me) had configured asset pipeline to point . . .
Card Numbers with Trello and Safari
A teeny-tiny, but super-handy Safari Extension
This is a simple Safari extension that takes Trello from;
to...
This seems like a small change, but when using Trello with teams as we do working at On The Beach then we find it makes communication so much simpler.
Thanks to @mikespokefire who wrote the original Chrome version that I couldn't . . .
Large-File Hunting on Mac's and *nix
note to self: ncdu is a nifty little tool
I recently found ncdu which, excusing it's awful-to-remember name, is an awesome command line tool for quickly finding (and eliminating?!) those pesky large files hiding on your computer.
I really do keep forgetting the name, so this is here to remind me. It's available via apt-get on Ubuntu (and presumably Debian) . . .
Zed Shaw: Peddling Luck
Below is a 30 minute video of Zed Shaw on startup advice. I couldn't agree more with many of his points, and would love to see an actual this is how guide. Is there one that I'm missing?
http://vimeo.com/phusionnl/bubbleconf-2012-zed-shaw-peddling-luck
Enterprise REST
Postel's Law states that you should be liberal in what you accept and conservative in what you send. This is sage advice for service development. Unfortunately, the default behavior of some deserializers breaks this advice by throwing an exception when an unexpected field is provided by a consumer. This is unfortunate, as it could . . .
Windows 8 Store Insta-Crashing
Since I received my new work PC (the impressive Dell XPS 13) the Windows Store app has crashed every time I tried to start it. This has prevented me from really using any Metro apps ... which until the release of 8.1 via the store hadn't been an issue.
When I originally searched for help on this, nothing stood out and I presumed . . .
Git is scary
An gentle introduction to the basic git commands
Coming from the Windows world it is quite an adjustment to dealing with git's command line first attitude. Some of the commands have intimidating sounding names, and even more intimidating arguments.
rebase and reset --hard HEAD might be two of the worst offenders. Then there are the commands that sound like they do similar jobs . . .