Fixing Firefox 3.6
Recently I became very frustrated with my long time browser of choice: Firefox. Version 3.6.3 on OS X Snow Leopard became the biggest memory hog on my system. After leaving the browser open for a while...
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A Few Days With Google Chrome
Recently more than one web developing friend told me that they had switched from Firefox to Google Chrome for their everyday browsing and work needs. That’s saying a lot because Firefox has some great...
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Mighty Nice Lessons From ChicagoRuby Hack Night
Last night I attended a ChicagoRuby Hack Night. It was my first one, and well worth going to. The topic was Ruby 1.9 and how it differs from 1.8. The format was very casual. There was a written...
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The Mighty Nice March To Ruby On Rails 3 And Ruby 1.9.2
I’ve been working with Ruby On Rails 2.2.2 and Ruby 1.8.7 for a little over a year now. The Mightyvites site is built on that foundation, as is the Mighty Nice site, and a few of our client sites....
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Ubuntu Upstart Gotcha When Monitoring MySQL With God
I recently upgraded our two Slicehost VPSs from Ubuntu Hardy Heron (8.04) to Lucid Lynx (10.04). That’s from one LTS to another, and the process, overall, went very smoothly. To pull it off I followed...
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Ruby On Rails Transactional Email Using MailChimp And SendGrid
Since launch mightyvites.com has sent email through Gmail using very basic HTML/ERB templates. There have been no graphics, little styling, and zero email client testing. In other words our emails have...
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Upgrade To Rails 3.0.10 And Ruby 1.9.2 Reviewed
Over a year ago (!) I announced my intention to upgrade mightyvites.com from Ruby 1.8.7 and Rails 2.2.2 to Ruby 1.9.2 and Rails 3. Took me long enough but I’m now finally following up on the issue. No,...
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A Nginx Maintenance Configuration That Works
We use the lightening fast Nginx web server to handle our mightyvites.com requests. Like most sites we need to go offline once in awhile to deploy new code, address server issues, etc. When we take the...
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Ruby On Rails 3.1: Upgrading To The Asset Pipeline
Shortly after making the big leap from Rails 2.2.2 to 3.0.10 Rails 3.1 came out. Feeling defeated in my quest to have mightyvites.com on the latest stable release I started down the path of upgrading...
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Hybrid Invitations Powered By Rails 3.2 and Ruby 1.9.3
Since the push to Rails 3.1.3 I’ve actually upgraded mightyvites.com to use Rails 3.2.3 and Ruby 1.9.3. This was an easy move forward with little to write home about. The upgrade was significant,...
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