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The email_preview gem has undergone a serious overhaul in the last week.

Who will win the crown for the King of Realtime Search?

Multitenant: locking down your app and making cross tenant data leaks a thing of the past…since 2011 Designing multi-tenant applications has increasingly becoming the norm for software developers.

This is your application when “MYSQL has gone away” Most developers working with long running background processes will eventually run into the infamous “MySQL server has gone away” error.

This is what life was like before backgrounded_mail… Don’t tie up your precious resources blocking on a synchronous call to sendmail or SMTP!

Anyone that calls themself an engineer knows “the look”.

Nesting contexts and assertions is a more advanced and incredibly powerful aspect of several modern unit test frameworks (shoulda, jspec, etc).

Writing an effective and expressive unit test is just as important as writing clean application code.

Stay “Class-y” Backgrounded!

If you’re writing a rails app, you’re already using new relic to monitor your app right?

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After an extended rest, Backgrounded is back in action with support for Resque.

As a developer, working with email pretty much sucks.

Incase you haven’t heard, I love me some Google Chrome extensions.

Rails is bit like a dirty old man.

If you’re using Rails and integrate with Apple Push Notifications, you are more than likely familiar with the apn_on_rails gem.

Have you ever visited a website that required an email registration form, but you really didn’t want to give out your primary email address?

Opinions on ADOBE AIR Incase you haven’t heard, Adobe AIR is a complete and utter failure for developing desktop applications with HTML/CSS/Javascript technologies.

User notifications have been a standard feature of our modern software applications for quite some time now.

Lightweight windows are intended for AIR applications to show simple popup windows and notifications (like my emulated growl notification system).

I use Delicious.

Let’s say you’re in a bit of a mess with the performance of your fancy web application’s Javascript.

Since the release of the Google Closure library, I’ve spent several weeks going through their source code and giving it a fair shake with some small demos.

Over the years, I’ve used a number of source repositories for my published projects.

Everyone says that “avoiding DOM manipulation” is a key to improve javascript performance, but their understanding of the root issue is slightly skewed.

ActiveRecord callbacks are pretty amazing.

How to break nearly any Rails app using JSON in 3 simple steps Store unicode characters in the database (\020 or \221 or pretty much any other unicode character) Request JSON representation of data Watch your clients crash and burn (IE7 and PHP parsers in…

Twitter has a very elegant solution for user feedback messages.

Trimming Text In Style It’s a very common request to have text elements truncated to prevent breaking your layout.

Using Rails layouts is a great way to abstract away commonly rendered elements.

It’s literally been months since I’ve manually typed “cap production deploy”.

The initial release of Backgrounded seems to have struck a chord with the Ruby community and it appears to be gaining momentum.

Incase you missed the announcement, today we unveiled the official release of our Socialcast Developer API.

HTML Select inputs are notorious for being difficult to style.

I have a dream where our developer children will hear the name “Adobe” and not cringe.

I’m going to come right out and say it… Every ruby background job solution sucks.

Rails does a great job at making some of the headaches of building stateful webapps go away.

I’ve talked about migrating off of JRoller for a long time, and the time has finally come.

Testing are vital part of any development process for a lot of reasons.

In my experience, it’s very common for web frameworks to automatically strip extra whitespace from posted forms.

CSS psuedo selectors are pretty awesome and on my current project I’ve been able to take advantage of them for a fairly complex task, creating a humane sentence out of a list of items.

Everyone knows that there’s no decent ruby solution for monitoring server side processes.

How do you ensure that hacker developers like myself don’t check in invalid SASS?

SASS is an amazing library to have in your toolbox.

Let’s face it.

How Darwinistic Evolution has survived any amount of scientific scrutiny is beyond me.

Truly have to believe that you’re making the right choicegiven the options and information at hand.

A old man and woman have been married for fifty years and love each other very much.

Attachment Fu is a kick ass rails plugin for handling file uploads within your rails application.