February 15, 2009 10:01
RMagick is a Ruby interface that allows access to the ImageMagick image processing library. When I started out developing in Ruby on Rails, installing RMagick was quite an endeavor, which was one o...
February 15, 2009 10:01
I couldn’t find a tutorial that took me through this process successfully, in the end I combined information from several other articles to provide these simple steps. Prerequisites I used a...
December 02, 2008 21:42
Whilst i was writing a recent article it was necessary for me to take some dialog screenshots from OS X Leopard. There are several ways of doing this: Using the grab utility that comes with OS ...
December 15, 2007 11:19
I recently upgraded to OS x Leopard, and afterwards noticed that spotlight was failing to find certain applications. It was necessary to delete the index database in order to force reindexing. This...
June 22, 2007 10:11
Like over a million others (at time of writing) i have upgraded to Safari 3. There are some great new features which are covered in other blog posts, but i am also encountering a few problems... Ap...
May 24, 2007 11:42
Lets start with the basics..... What are GET and POST? GET and POST specify the two main ways by which the browser sends a form's data to the server for processing. The Get method contacts the s...
May 01, 2007 14:41
It can get quite confusing when it comes to using the different select helpers, select, select_tag and collection_select and in my opinion there is a lack of adequate documentation. For my own use ...
April 24, 2007 11:37
I often find while writing a ruby on rails applications that i need to display the contents of a variable quickly and easily, this is straight forward in a view, but not so easy in a controller or ...
April 18, 2007 15:56
My first blog post! and i am quite pleased with myself. I wrote this blog application from scratch using Ruby on Rails, its kind of an experiment, i get to try out new features, and generally use t...
