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Slacking

~4 years ago by Nick Plante aka nap on zerosum dirt(nap) - Home.
Like my pal bryanl over at smartic.us, I too want to apologize for being a bad blogger lately. I’ve just been stupid busy with both personal stuff...

Constraint-Driven Development

~4 years ago by Nick Plante aka nap on zerosum dirt(nap) - Home.
There was a nice writeup on ReadWriteWeb yesterday about Montreal’s upcoming Blitzweekend event. Like the Rails Rumble that we organized last September...

Reflections on *Camp

~2 years ago by Nick Plante aka nap on zerosum dirt(nap) - Home.
Last weekend I attended the first-ever New Hampshire PodCamp, organized chiefly by my friend Leslie Poston along with a crew of enthusiastic volunteer co-organizers...

ActiveRecord: Importing YAML

almost 4 years ago by Nick Plante aka nap on zerosum dirt(nap) - Home.
Backing up ActiveRecord models to YAML is easy to do, and can be convenient for creating ‘templates’ that can later be imported to restore basic...

Plugins Are Unnecessary

almost 4 years ago by Nick Plante aka nap on zerosum dirt(nap) - Home.
Plugins really are unnecessary — Jay Fields is absolutely right. RubyGems is a great package management system and there’s no reason it can...

Impressed With Comatose CMS

over 4 years ago by Nick Plante aka nap on zerosum dirt(nap) - Home.
Often after I’m finished building the bulk of a web app, I find there are some secondary pages that need to be built. These pages are largely informational...

OpenID Client Certs = Win

almost 4 years ago by Nick Plante aka nap on zerosum dirt(nap) - Home.
I’m a big fan of OpenID. Or rather, I’m a big fan of what OpenID and data portability mean for the web at large in the coming white days. Single...

Principle of Least Surprise

almost 4 years ago by Nick Plante aka nap on zerosum dirt(nap) - Home.
One of the things I love about Ruby is that it tends to follow the principle of least surprise; things just work the way you would expect them to, with...

Git Ur Radiant Extensions

almost 4 years ago by Nick Plante aka nap on zerosum dirt(nap) - Home.
I published a new Radiant extension yesterday: Database Form. It provides a new page type and tags for constructing contact and request info forms and will...

NHRuby: Django/Rails

almost 4 years ago by Nick Plante aka nap on zerosum dirt(nap) - Home.
If you’re in the ME/NH/MA area on Tuesday, make sure to stop by the NH Ruby SIG; Brian Turnbull will be presenting an in-depth talk comparing the...