Archive | Web Development

21 January 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Easy rounded corners working in IE7/IE8

This afternoon I was looking for a solution to (easily) add rounded corners into some elements of a website we are developing.
After having tried Curvycorners, jQuery Corners without any success (it was completely breaking the design under IE) I finally came to DD_roundies, which use Microsoft VML.
DD_roundies
DD_roundies is a really lightweight piece of code that will [...]

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29 October 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Tweetcetera is live today!

\o/ \o/ Tweetcetera is now live! After several development weeks, it’s finally out!.
What’s Tweetcetera …
Tweetcetera is meant to look similar to Twitter web interface, so that you don’t need to learn how to use a new website. But we have added some nice features, which we felt were missing from the original product.
You won’t find [...]

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14 October 2009 ~ 3 Comments

My tools of the trade

Rubyflow blog started yesterday a thread called Tools of the Trade, so to reply here is my main tools, I use everyday.

Hardware
As described in a previous post I now use a netbook as main development machine until September this year.
Machine1: Medion E1312,11.6″,Athlon 1.6 Ghz single core, 2 Gig Ram . For all task, it’s really [...]

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04 September 2009 ~ 3 Comments

Netbook for webdevelopers

I leaved HP 2 days ago, and in the same time I had to give back my laptop. This laptop was nice, powerful, but a bit heavy for my use (nearly 3 Kg).
I’m now moving into a full time freelancing position, for the first month I’ll start with a contract where I’ll work in the [...]

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25 August 2009 ~ 0 Comments

more about the railsrumble and planettoaster.com

This week was the Rails Rumble week end.
For them who don’t know, the Rails Rumble is a 48H ruby web development competition. In this period of time your team (up to 4 people) has to create the best web application possible.
As last year, I went solo this year, and came up with Planet Toaster.
What is [...]

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24 July 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Passing env variable to Ruby with Apache

I had a problem last week, while developing tweetcetera. I need to use open-uri to open the twitter search url.
BUT, when I develop/test from from my office, I needed to pass through my corporate proxy. Obviously not when I’m at home, and not on my staging/development server.
For the first days I just manage to remove [...]

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16 June 2009 ~ 0 Comments

My new moo card set arrived today

This year I’m looking to more networking and freelancing in the Uk, so I’ve made these business cards and they’ve been printed by Moo.
As alway, Moo quality is just fantastic, and I’m happy with the result. But I’ll certainly do another with Web Strategy Developer or something like that (more generic than Ruby on Rails [...]

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18 May 2009 ~ 30 Comments

Beginners guide to Jquery + Ruby On Rails

First time I wanted to use Jquery with Ruby on Rails I had some difficulties understanding how it can works.
Sure, you can easily use Jrails, that’ll brings you RJS helpers with Jquery, but I quite like the unobstrusive way, so Jrails is not (for me) the best solutions.
Let’s code together
What do we want?
We are going [...]

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15 May 2009 ~ 0 Comments

mysocialdeck.com, after few hours of development

After having released www.serialcooking.com, I needed to do something just for me (I work on serialcooking with Nathalie).
This monday, I started a web implementation of Tweetdeck, and even if it’s now finished now, it goes very quickly.
I’ve used twitter_auth, and worked on it only 2 nights currently, but I want to realease it as soon [...]

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11 May 2009 ~ 7 Comments

tutorial, how to use twitter_auth gem in development mode

It was the big things weeks ago, but I didn’t had time to test it. Twitter_auth, allows you to user the twitter authentication on you application. And it’s really sweet!.
Let’s do a small implementation together.
Step 1: Prepare your development box
Because Twitter doesn’t allow the callback parameter anymore, you’ll need to setup your workstation.
I recommend to [...]

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