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OpenID for Wordpress

over 4 years ago by Dr Nic on Dr Nic.
This blog - nay, this InterTubes HomePage - runs on Wordpress. This website allows you to comment. Like a blog. Let’s call it a blog. That’s...

Dr Nic Academy - sneak peak at the logo

over 4 years ago by Dr Nic on Dr Nic.
Yummy....

Where oh where are my rails plugins?

over 4 years ago by Dr Nic on Dr Nic.
I can’t be the only person to notice the disappearance of old faithful plugins like simply_helpful and others. They got deprecated. Enough of their...

I Still Call Australia Home

over 4 years ago by Dr Nic on Dr Nic.
On the 25th of September I’m doing a one-day workshop for Beginning Ruby on Rails (announcement) at the uber-cool Web Directions South [1]. Which...

One App, One User Account and Multiple OpenIDs

over 4 years ago by Dr Nic on Dr Nic.
Summary: Its the future, and its not Facebook. Learn it. I’ve just implemented OpenID sign-ons for a client site, as a compliment for the standard...

Magic Wiggly Lines => GuessMethod, by Chris Shea

over 4 years ago by Dr Nic on Dr Nic.
If you ever make time to code just for pleasure, then method_missing and const_missing are just begging for abuse. Chris Shea has come up with GuessMethod...

Sample Rails app: multi-OpenIDs per user

over 4 years ago by Dr Nic on Dr Nic. [Linked from: BenCurtis.com]
Last time, on “Dr Nic loves OpenID”… Dr Nic had watched a video by Simon Willison glorifying the delights of OpenID to some GooglersDr...

Rails on the Fairway - Matt Allen

over 4 years ago by Dr Nic on Dr Nic.
Matt Allen works at iseekgolf.com which was ported from PHP to Rails. It has 130 models. It does lots of caching. And Matt did a talk on it, and its been...

One year on the InterTubes

over 4 years ago by Dr Nic on Dr Nic.
Dumping thoughts onto the InterTubes, aka blogging, is fun. And I’ve been doing it 1 year now. Its also challenging. Its like inviting people over...

map_by_method now works with ActiveRecord associations

over 4 years ago by Dr Nic on Dr Nic.
I was always annoyed that map_by_method was broken for ActiveRecord has_many associations. 6 mths later I finally fixed it. That’s the magic of Open...