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IE doesn't let us REST

over 4 years ago by Jonathan on BlogFish - Blog.
The reason why wrote up my rant about not getting too exited about REST is that I had some fun time paying for my blind usage of REST. While developing...

Webistrano 1.1 released

over 4 years ago by Jonathan on BlogFish - Blog.
Webistrano 1.1 is finally out. Webistrano is a Web UI for managing Capistrano deployments. It lets you manage projects and their stages like test, production...

Don't get too RESTful

over 4 years ago by Jonathan on BlogFish - Blog.
REST is a nice theoretical concept and Rails is pushing hard in this direction. We all heard about RESTful Rails and map.resources but at least in my surrounding...

Name or service not known

over 4 years ago by Jonathan on BlogFish - Blog.
If you ever get such a wonderful verbose error message like this while running a Ruby script that uses sockets: /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/drb/drb.rb:837...

Capturing Output in Capistrano

over 4 years ago by Jonathan on BlogFish - Blog.
A common question about Capistrano tasks is how to capture the output of a task. By default Capistrano will just execute your command and ignore any output...

Suggestions for Rails Patterns

almost 4 years ago by Jonathan on BlogFish - Blog.
Next week I'm going to present Rails Patterns at the Scotland on Rails conference. The idea is to talk about common pitfalls and problems that I've encountered...

back home again

almost 4 years ago by Jonathan on BlogFish - Blog.
After being one week on the road, I'm finally back home again. Last week I presented at RubyFools Copenhagen and Scotland on Rails and therefore traveled...

Webistrano 1.3 released

almost 4 years ago by Jonathan on BlogFish - Blog.
I'm proud to announce Webistrano 1.3! Webistrano is a Web UI for managing Capistrano deployments. It lets you manage projects and their stages like test...

Upcoming events and talks in May

almost 4 years ago by Jonathan on BlogFish - Blog.
May is going to be a busy month, with several conferences and events lined up. On May 14 I will be giving a lecture on Web 2.0 technologies for the Web...

Performance implications of block&capture helpers

over 3 years ago by Jonathan on BlogFish - Blog.
Recently there have been again some articles on block and capture helpers in Rails (e.g. this one). A block/capture lets you write nicer looking helper...