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Using Amiok to quickly check if configured sites on a shared Apache server respond properly

3 months ago by Manfred Stienstra on Fingertips.
Every time I make a change on a shared host I get a weird sense of doom. I know that it might break something in one of the 50 sites on that box. Usually...

February 4th: ‘Morning coffee’ meeting in Amsterdam

~2 years ago by Manfred Stienstra on Fingertips.
It’s time for another ‘Morning coffee’ meeting. You’re invited to come chat with your fellow designers and developers over a nice cup of coffee...

Ruby 1.9 character encoding field notes

~2 years ago by Manfred Stienstra on Fingertips.
As you probably already know the String class became encoding aware in Ruby 1.9. This makes it possible to manipulate strings on the character level instead...

Ordering and comparing text in Rails and MySQL

~2 years ago by Manfred Stienstra on Fingertips.
Ordering and comparing text is a lot trickier than a lot of people expect, computer scientists even came up with a complicated name for it: collation. There...

Broach: a Campfire API implementation for Ruby

~2 years ago by Manfred Stienstra on Fingertips.
Today we released a lightweight implementation of the web API for 37signal’s Campfire called Broach. It’s really handy to use in your notification scripts...

Mocha loading order

~2 years ago by Manfred Stienstra on Fingertips.
From version 0.9.8 onwards Mocha wants to be loaded after the test framework. I suspect this has something to do with detecting how to hook into the framework...

Apprise

over 2 years ago by Manfred Stienstra on Fingertips.
Last friday Eloy and I participated in the Ruby en Rails Rails Rumble 2009, we had 8 hours to write an application which helped developers find out more...

Say hi to Jonno Riekwel

over 2 years ago by Manfred Stienstra on Fingertips.
Jonno has been with us for almost four months now, so it’s about time we welcome him to the team. Earlier this year, our good friend Justin Halsall recommended...

Fingertips Rails Template

over 2 years ago by Manfred Stienstra on Fingertips.
People are always curious how we build our applications, what gems we use, and how we do authorization. We’ve posted bits and pieces in the past but with...

Highly interactive JavaScript widgets

over 2 years ago by Manfred Stienstra on Fingertips.
For a project we worked on recently the user needed to categorize works of art into disciplines and movements and tag them. We developed a little control...