jRuby JRuby and vlcj – A Simple Full-Screen Media Player A simple JRuby script showing how to use the vlcj library to playback video full screen on a Linux machine.
jRuby Preventing JRuby Concurrency Errors with Hamster How using Hamster's efficient, immutable, thread-safe collections can prevent ConcurrencyError exceptions in JRuby.
Web Apps ExtJS Unit Testing Using Jasmine Tips on configuring the Jasmine unit testing (BDD) framwork for use with Ext JS 4 components and classes.
Web Apps Auto Login During Development with dotjs How to use the dotjs browser extension to write simple user scripts, specifically one to automatically log in to a site under development.
Web Apps Rendering Templates in Ext JS – So Many Choices Ext JS 4.0.x provides many ways of rendering content: autoEl, html, tpl/data, renderTpl/renderData. Here are my suggestions on which to use when.
Web Apps Getting Live Updates when Changing Stores in Ext JS I recently had a live updating problem when moving an Ext JS model from one Ext.data.Store to another. Here's the solution I found.
Web Apps Safely Parsing Parameters from a Rails Log A technique to parse the request parameters from a Rails log back into a Ruby hash.
Web Apps These Intermittent Test Failures Will Not Stand, Man I rid a large test suite of intermittent failures. Here are some of the causes of the random failures and what I did to prevent them from failing.
Developer Tools Learn Vim with Spaced Repetition Resources for using a spaced repetition algorithm to learn Vim and its commands.
Web Apps Given I Am Signed in Using capybara-webkit Directly authenticate a user from a Cucumber step by setting a cookie using capybara-webkit.
Developer Tools Highlight Strings in Cucumber Features with Vim An "after" syntax file that adds highlighting to double quoted strings in Cucumber feature files when using tpope's vim-cucumber plugin.
DevOps & System Admin. Authentication and CouchDB This post collects some of the articles and code snippets I tracked down while researching how to secure a CouchDB server.
