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Practical patterns for safely using git worktrees with multiple concurrent agents without hitting Git lock errors.

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A brief overview of the new berry.sh and what to expect in the future

A recount of my experience at the Rails SaaS conference, a "next-generation" conference dedicated to the intersection of business and software development.

Note: The opinions expressed in this post are not necessarily representative of all employees or their experiences. Unlike my other posts of the past …

Sharing JavaScript via JSBin, JSFiddle, etc. is great but it can be hard to keep track of them. Here is a list of useful Ember code examples. …

GitHub recently replaced the copy and paste functionality with ZeroClipboard, a library for copying text to the clipboard that uses an invisible …

If you have not yet gone through Part 1 and Part 2, I recommend you do. You can check out the code up to this point with the following: $ git clone …

If you have not yet gone through Part 1, I recommend you do. You can check out the code up to this point with the following: $ git clone https:// …

Updated Feb 20, 2014 to use Ember v1.4.1 Authentication with Ember is difficult. I have spent a couple of weeks trying out different approaches and …

Have you been frustrated at all with Ember because of a lack of common functionality? Well, if you are you are probably like how I was and forgot to …

In a recent app I have written in Ember, I found that the need to display flash messages came up. This has always been given to me for free with …

Let’s pick up where we left off. If you haven’t already, make sure you go through Part 1 to create your base Rails app with the API setup …

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RubyMine has become awesomer and awesomer over the years and is now my primary development tool for Rails development. One thing I&rsquo;ve found &hellip;

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As a Rails guy, I always perform my table pagination using mislav&rsquo;s will paginate gem. However, when I use it combined with Twitter Bootstrap, &hellip;

Airbrake has a Java library that can be used in your Grails application fairly easily. A couple of items that the library doesn&rsquo;t do is make it &hellip;

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I was frustrated as hell today finding examples on how to use HTTPBuilder to perform a simple POST and GET request in my Grails application. I now &hellip;

Source code for the example project can be found at https://github.com/cavneb/grails-shiro-example. Shiro is a security framework that is meant to &hellip;

The Rails asset pipeline is very powerful, but often misunderstood. At the Utah Ruby User Group, most of the attendees aren&rsquo;t sure how to use &hellip;

For a long time, I have been creating static int values to represent states in domain classes. For example, I would have something like the following &hellip;

For those who are new to Groovy and Grails, here are a list of screencasts I created a while ago, along with a couple of slideshare presentations.

Recently I was asked to implement Redis/Resque into an existing project that already had Redis up and running with another Redis server. This ended &hellip;

Google+ vs. Facebook If you're like me, most of your family, if not all, communicates with each other via Facebook. For some reason, it has just become easier to post a quick message online.

This post was copied from exceptions.wordpress.com with minor updates. So you are working with RVM / Rails 3 / Ruby 1.9.2 and you keep on getting the &hellip;

I have three domain classes: Lead, Submission and BuyerLog: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 class Lead { static hasMany = [ &hellip;

Our company has been using PostgreSQL for a very long time and has found it a very solid product for our needs. One thing that we&rsquo;ve run into &hellip;

Grails Screencasts Here are several screencasts that I did for TeachMeToCode.com Introduction to Grails – Part 1 Are you new to Grails? Grails is an excellent alternative to Ruby on Rails,.

Recently, I was asked to come up with a better solution to our captcha needs. We have been using ReCaptcha, which is great but difficult to read at &hellip;

Here&rsquo;s the slides from a presentation I did at the UGGUG in May 2010. I found that I needed to use it again today so I posted it. Here is the &hellip;

I am writing a new Grails application which uses the website template Admintasia. Part of the layout gsp file has a section for the header and sub- &hellip;

So let&rsquo;s say you want to utilize the standard grails tag lib of formatNumber within your domain class, controller or service. How would you go &hellip;

Something I had to dig around for today was how to perform a sum on a table using Criteria Builder. It seems that it is treated a bit different than &hellip;

One thing that I like to do with my logger output is allow for multi-line output. It makes it much easier to read and keeps my code cleaner. Instead &hellip;

Recently I ran into a problem where I needed to be able to send emails via two different SMTP accounts within the same Rails application. I scoured &hellip;

I interviewed at a company a while ago and one of the questions they asked me was the familiar &ldquo;You have 8 golf balls and a justice scale. One &hellip;

I spent a good 3 hours today trying to figure out exactly how to get NSTables working while using RubyCocoa. Now that I finally figured it out (to a &hellip;

Another feature that is often added to Web 2.0 sites is tabbed content. I&rsquo;m not talking about tabbed navigation. Tabbed content is when &hellip;