Not Geekly Correct

Nathalie’s (now my fiancee) temporary position has ended last week, and she is looking for a new position in or around Bristol.
Currently working in marketing/web marketing, it’s not the best season/time to search for a new position.
With an average of 1 new job per day, I don’t think she’ll find something quickly.
I’d say that it’s [...]

Loosing data can be quite … annoying. (Photo on Flickr)
The last thing you want is to have a disaster on your server and being unable to recover your data.
I run all my projects and different blogs on one server, hosted by OVH. So I have multiple databases, gems, websites and configurations that I want to [...]

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, [...]