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Not Geekly Correct Hi, my name is Nicolas Alpi Web developer freelance, specialised in Ruby on Rails and Jquery languages. You can contact me at nicolas.alpi@gmail.com or by phone at 0782 640 3019. You can also follow me on Twitter @spyou or consult my LinkedIn profile.

19 October 2009 ~ 2 Comments

In web we trust, but how much?

Since September, I’ve been developing tweetcetera on my spare time. And I’m on the point to release a beta soon (end of the month or earlier)..
What is tweetcetera?
Tweetcetera is a web application I’m working on the spare time. Basically, you login in with you Twitter account, and it reproduce the Twitter web interface with smarter [...]

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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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06 October 2009 ~ 0 Comments

5 Web Resources to master Git

Git is a free distributed revision control, or software source code management project with an emphasis on being fast. Git was initially designed and developed by Linus Torvalds for Linux kernel development.
Every Git working directory is a full-fledged repository with complete history and full revision tracking capabilities, not dependent on network access or a central [...]

30 September 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Babyonce

I know that this video is everywhere on the web, but, I just find it so cute!

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 [...]

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 [...]

05 August 2009 ~ 0 Comments

I’ll become a Ruby on Rails full time freelancer

This is the good news of the day. I’m leaving HP in one month now, for going full time Ruby On Rails / Jquery / Other stuffs full time freelancing.
I’ll start on projects for a company called Jiva in south Bristol for several months which is an ideal position!.
On these kind words, I’ll leave you [...]

04 August 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Holidays D-1, I’ll do my homeworks for the Railsrumble

Haa, holidays are coming. I’ll be ending in North of France, enjoying Belgium beer, Nathalie’s grand parents fresh vegetables and … will be a bit disconnected. This will be the occasion for me to put some order in remaining/waiting projects.
But, as last year, I’ll compete at the RailsRumble this year. My app? PlanetToaster.

So I’ll do [...]

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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14 July 2009 ~ 8 Comments

10 things I’ve learned developing in rails

I’ve started learning Rails and Ruby 3 years ago now, and now all my side projects are made in RoR.
I’ll be ready soon to release my third rails application, but having launched earlier this year serialcooking.com I’ve learn a lot on good RoR good practice in terms of development, deployment and maintenance.
I just wanted to [...]

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