Ruby on Rails Basic Devise and Mass Assignment – Am I Missing Something? What's the best way to handle mass assignment protection of the password field and still use Devise's built in controllers?
Web Apps window.location as a Global Variable Why I've chosen to avoid setting window.location directly, and how I've avoided it using Backbone's structures.
jRuby Be Aware of jruby.launch.inproc Heads up for those not aware: it's not hard to get burned when you're executing other Ruby processes from within a JRuby process.
Web Apps namespace: a CoffeeScript Nugget I recently stumbled upon the namespace function in CoffeeScript’s FAQ.
Ruby Odd Warbler + Compass Gem Interaction Here's the short version: If this looks familiar... make sure you don’t compile config/compass.rb. There's a longer version, too.
Ruby RSpec Backtrace Filtering Recently I ran into some trouble with the way I was trying to use the Mongoid gem. Eventually I realized that RSpec was filtering out parts of my backtrace.
Android Development New Safe Methods Added to kSOAP2 Lately I have been using the kSOAP2 library for SOAP communications on Android. The library is not particularly elegant, but it gets the job done.
Presenter First Presenter First in GTK and C I created a small GTK application to demonstrate Presenter First and Model-View-Presenter. And here it is: the aptly named PF Calculator.
jRuby Easy Data Visualization with JFreeChart The next time you’re looking to visualize data in your JRuby or Java application, don’t overlook JFreeChart.
