Ouch! You broke my site

When James asked me if he could send RefactorMyCode to Digg, I said: sure. After all I spent lot of time on caching parts of the site so it would be fast. Ben and Fred also helped me spread the word with their networking ninja skills. By the time I went home that day it [...]

Refactor my Code

If there’s one thing that current blogs suck at it’s sharing code. Ok, some have plugins to highlight code in your post, but what about the comments? Blogging is all about having conversations! How many times have you seen on blogs the author asking to replace > and < with something else. Oh! and forget [...]

The Migrations for .NET project is not dead yet!

I know, I know, since I got the chance to work full-time with Ruby I pretty much abandoned all of my .NET projects. Most of them died silently, in piece. They are now gone to a better world, with full coverage and never failing tests, clean and usable design, fast and beautiful code, funny and [...]

A day in the life of a Standout Jobs hacker

In case you don’t know it yet, we’re hiring more Ruby hackers at Standout Jobs!
Instead of trying to convince you that this is the best place to work, I’ll describe my typical day of work and let you judge if this is the right thing for you.
7 AM
Sleeping
7:30 AM
Sleeping
8 AM
Wake up!
8:15 AM
Back to sleep
8:30 AM
All [...]

Ruby to Javascript in 100 LOC, is it possible ?

The goal of this tutorial is to show you how, with Ruby, we can turn this:

if ($(‘a’).value == ‘a’) {
doThis(true, ‘maybe’);
andThis($(‘a’).innerHTML);
}
var MyClass = Class.create();
MyClass.prototype = {
myMethod: function(arg1, arg2) {
cool();
},
anotherOne: function() {
say(‘hi’);
},
};

Into Ruby code, with a [...]

The Secret of Happiness : Constraint

If you have one video to watch today, this week, this month or even this year, make it this one. Both enlightening and funny, it’s a scientific proof that the way to acheive happiness is not the one you think.

Defensio on Rails

I know what you’re thinking: what kind of lazy ass are your Marc ? Did you get a life, lost your computer, your girlfriend went into labour ? More then a month since I released a project! Wow, I must have been pretty busy…
While talking with Carl at the last Montreal on Rails meeting, it [...]

Montreal on Rails 2

Montreal on Rails was yesterday. It was the place to be for Rails and even web people in general. 3 great presentations with really useful stuff, you can actually use. How’s that ?
Ext on Rails
Chris Scott showed the Ext Javascript framework. Lots of cool stuff, really crowd pleaser and exciting. Fancy javascript dialog closing the [...]