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Monthly Archives: April 2012
HTTP forwarding services for local Facebook development
I’m working on Facebook Open Graph features for a client, and developing these features requires enabling Facebook to somehow crawl my locally-served pages. I asked around for solutions to this problem, and got a pretty long list of replies. I’m … Continue reading
Watch me write an app, starting from nothing. Part 1 now available!
A couple weeks ago I created cowsays.com, in an effort to introduce the joy of Cowsay to more people. In the announcement I talked about how I created the site over a 24-hour period (not counting some UI tweaks). What … Continue reading
New maintainer needed for NullDB
NullDB, for those who don’t know, is a null backend for ActiveRecord. Unlike RSpec’s stub_object, rather than raise an exception on DB access, will NullDB DB interactions simply become no-ops. This is handy for things like testing after_save hooks in … Continue reading
Assistants: Not just for the boss anymore.
This is not strictly software-development-related, but a number of developers have asked me about my experience finding and working with a remote assistant. I’ve had my assistant for a few months now and I thought I’d jot down some notes … Continue reading
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