Brian Wigginton

I’ver recently begun diving into Electronics and Circuitry and wanted to pick up a book to become more acquainted with the concepts.

I was writing a spec for a method that used a built-in Rails helper method, image_path.

While using the autotest gem on a project, I found that my tests would run regardless of if a file was saved or not.

I have some decorator logic that needs to generate a url using the request object.

Lot’s of great stuff in this terrific set of slides by Bryan Cantrill at Joyent presenting how to scale up your engineering teams without bringing in a bunch of extraneous process and middle management.

Ross Anderson has released the Second Edition of his book Security Engineering: A Guide to Building Distributed Dependable Systems and it’s free to read online, each chapter is released seperately in PDF format.

There’s been a lot of services released lately that aim to assist developers share their local development environments over the internet. localtunnel, showoff.io and pagekite come to mind, just to name a few.

I was getting a new machine up and running and decided to play with zsh.

Prerequisite You need to have some form of jshint installed on your server.

We has some files that were being tracked in SVN that we needed to be untracked and ignored, specifically a web.config file, which was being dynamically generated.

This assumes you’re using CakePHP 2.x CakePHP let’s you use timestamp based cache busting on your assets by enabling Asset.timestamp in your core.php file.

Content Switching Content-switching is an OSI layer 7 application switching technique, which in lamans terms means that it has access to the HTTP requests and responses of your application.

On an MVC.NET project at work, we came across the need to be able to override the web.config’s appSettings uniquely on each of our local environments.

After installing the latest version of Ubuntu Server with VMWare Fusion, I wasn’t able to get to a terminal.

Came across an issue with Django Fixtures using the JSON format.

Javascript closures can be confusing at first.

In trying to connect to a Google api using the builtin AccountManager API for android, I could not figure out what values to use for the authTokenType.

What is it and how can you use it to create new objects from constructor functions?

This WordPress blog is running on a 256MB Slicehost VPS.

Here is a quick run down of the tools and applications I user pretty much everyday.

For those of you looking for my Gentoo Wallpapers, they can be found here. 1440x900 - Click for More Sizes

The following will display a list of categories in your store in your right sidebar.

This tutorial will explain how to add a featured product to the sidebar.

What does it mean to be a pragmatic programmer, or to program pragmatically?

Going through an interview can be a rather daunting experience, however this is a good time for a candidate to find out more in depth information about the company, it’s culture, processes and many other aspects that may not be immediately realized.

Abstract This tutorial explains how to update a staging site whenever there is a commit to the SVN repository.

This is a tutorial on how to setup a Subversion repository on a subdomain with Apache.

This is a tutorial on how to setup Subversion to email a team when there is a commit to the repository.

To customize the paths and urls of paperclip objects in your rails app you need to modify both the :path and :url options for has_attached_file in your models.

Recently, I’ve been looking around for scripts to check the availability of websites I’m hosting, then email me a status message if there is anything I should be worrying about.

While writing a Ruby GUI app I kept seeing an empty console window.

Firefox 3 was having some font rendering issues on my machine.

Larry O’Brien over at knowing.net has a great series called 15 Exercises to Know a Programming Language, It’s an older article but after going through parts 1-3, theres really nothing in there that changes often enough to warrant any kind of an update.

Is it possible to make it so that I laptop running synaptic drivers can make it so that you can scroll pages with two fingers on the pad?