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On Confidence and Real-Time Strategy Games

7 months ago by David Eisinger, Senior Developer on Viget Extend : The Development Lab.
I want to talk about confidence and how it applies to being a successful developer. But before I do that, I want to talk about Z, a real-time strategy game...

Rails Admin Interface Generators

8 months ago by David Eisinger, Senior Developer on Viget Extend : The Development Lab.
Here at Viget, we’re always looking for ways to reduce duplicated effort, and one component that nearly every single one of our applications needs...

Convert a Ruby Method to a Lambda

10 months ago by David Eisinger, Senior Developer on Viget Extend : The Development Lab.
Last week I tweeted: Convert a method to a lambda in Ruby: lambda(&method(:events_path)). OR JUST USE JAVASCRIPT. It might not be clear what I was...

Simple Command Line Deploy Scripts for Non-Rails Projects

10 months ago by Jason Garber, Senior Front-End Developer on Viget Extend : The Development Lab.
I've been working on a lot of non-Rails projects lately. At some point during the buildout process, I start spending a fair amount of time uploading my...

Static Asset Packaging for Rails 3 on Heroku

11 months ago by David Eisinger, Senior Developer on Viget Extend : The Development Lab.
Short Version: the easiest way to combine and minify static assets (CSS and Javascript) in your Rails 3 app running on Heroku is to use AssetPackager with...

MobileCampRDU Event Recap

11 months ago by Matt Henry, Senior Front-End Developer on Viget Extend : The Development Lab.
This past Saturday, we held the first-ever MobileCampRDU event here at our Durham office. We had a great group of seasoned mobile pros as well as folks...

Bundler Best Practices

12 months ago by Chris Jones, Developer on Viget Extend : The Development Lab.
Bundler is a great tool to have in the Ruby toolbox, but it's also a bit mysterious to some developers. "Oh cool, I put my gems in this file, bundle install...

Quickly Converting to HTML5 Video

~1 year ago by Blake Walters, Senior Front-End Developer on Viget Extend : The Development Lab.
With the recent announcement that Google will be dropping H.264 support from Chrome in favor of its own WebM codec, I begrudgingly assumed that I&rsquo...

Emacs 24 Rails Development Environment - From *scratch* to Productive in 5 Minutes

~1 year ago by Matt Swasey, Web Developer on Viget Extend : The Development Lab.
I'm a big fan of Emacs. My fellow employees at Viget enjoy a number of different editors including Textmate and Vim. I strongly believe that everyone...

Paperclip Custom Interpolations

~1 year ago by Brian Landau, Web Developer on Viget Extend : The Development Lab.
As web developers something we often have to implement is handling file uploads. With Rails there are a number of plugins and gems for helping with this...