• Why Rescue Nil Is Bad

    From time to time I see people write code and at the end of the line there will be: rescue nil. This is not good...

  • Switching To Sublime Text 2

    Updated – 07/16/2012 Please see my updated post for current instructions on getting Sublime Text 2 up and running on your machine. Updated – 01/12/2012...

  • Set OSX Snow Leopard to UTC

    I was recently looking into a production issue that had to do with time zones. In order to accurately debug it I had to set...

  • Engine Yard Appcloud Account Management

    If you are working on several projects that are all deployed on EngineYard AppCloud managing deployments can be a bit tricky. When you first deploy...

  • Video Encoding With Uploadify Carrierwave And Zencoder

    For a recent Rails 3.1 project one of the features requested was to allow users to painlessly upload videos and have them all look consistent....