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.
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 [...]
6 months ago, I decided to change my commute habits, to become greener. My bike became my principal mode of transport. And it’s really pleasant. Even in winter, you fell alive, you arrive earlier to work and at home, your not stuck in traffic. Honestly I didn’t see any inconvenient. Well, I didn’t.
I’d already realized [...]
So that’s it, you want to start development with Ruby on Rails, but you don’t know where to start.
The good thing is Ruby on Rails has a very clever and smart community, and you can find lots of documentation on the web.
Here is quick summary on where to start.
Books
If you really want to learn Ruby [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Today I’ve played with twitter_auth, and I must admit it’s really sweet.
As I leave for a camping trip this afternoon, I’ll not be able to write a tutorial on how to setup you development box, but I’ll do it on Monday.
You can just check my source code on github. (You’ll need to add the database.yml [...]
This morning I needed to transform some Textmate snippets to Gedit format.
I’ve wrote a quick and dirty code for that (tmsnippets2gedit on github)
You just need to copy the script to the textmate bumdle root directory, and run it.
You’ll have a new file call result.xml that you need to edit to specify the language format (JS,Ruby,XSL, [...]
After resintalling my workstation on Ubuntu Jaunty (for using EXT4), I had to reinstall my development softwares.
Using Giantrobot 2009 Rubyit’s guide to Mac Os development as a guideline for this post, I’ll present here my current Linux configutation for Ruby development.
Also opinionated (Gedit over Netbeans), this configuration suit all my need for developing everyday. (And [...]
Just a quick update to inform you that the brand new public version is now available at http://www.serialcooking.com
The main work was done on the design, but we added the possibility to upload your blog post recipe, so it display in the website keeping the ability to save and plan the recipe.
I just think it’s awsome. [...]
