20061122 Mongrel! Mongrel! Mongrel!

And once you understand what is Mongrel you’ll have the strong desire to shout it loudly – as many times as possible, just like I’m feeling now! Like “how come I hadn’t found this before!? where have I been for the last months?”. For those of you which do not understand my sudden explosion of [...]

20061112 Bricks and ruled paper (a short story)

Two authors were discussing about their writing methods and specially, about the paper they used to write in. The first writer (let’s call him Phil) used to prepare himself ruled paper sheets, because -he argued- it was the only method to know exactly how the rules were spread across each sheet, so he could control [...]

20060914 Pizza On Rails september 2006

As usual, I write about great events with one day of delay (as I did with Jeff Barr’s web services’ speech past May). And the great event, in this case, was Pizza On Rails! After two failed attempts, it was the first POR that I managed to attend, and it was really funny, although I [...]

20060506 Do you want to resize and crop images in RoR? RMagick is your friend

In the last iteration of my photoapp, I still wasn’t able to update the pictures once updated. I also didn’t know how to configure the file_column plug-in for creating different types of resized images. So I finally decided to get rid of file_column, after having tried to find some kind of answer in forums, mailing [...]

20060501 My first application in Ruby On Rails

It’s time to get serious with RoR! I finally decided that I would do some useful application to really learn how it works, and as I’m quite bored of doing applications for managing text (whether they are intranets, cms’s, etc), I opted for recreating my old gallery script (which I did in php) in RoR. [...]