Nearest Cineworld project
A web app using HTML5 geolocation and the Cineworld API to find your closest cinema and browse showtimes with TMDb film data.
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My top 10 most useful Ruby Gems
A curated list of ten essential Ruby gems for web development, from Devise and CanCan to Formtastic and Thinking Sphinx.
Current git branch in bash prompt
A quick bash prompt tweak that displays your current Git branch, helping you avoid committing and pushing from the wrong branch.
Ruby Date format gotcha
A date parsing gotcha between Ruby 1.8.7 and 1.9.2 where the same date string is interpreted with swapped month and day values.
Gowalla - where's my ROI?
A critical look at Gowalla after months of use — questioning whether location-based social services offer any real value in return.
Google map api with ym4r
Fixing a ym4r plugin bug in Rails where multiple domain configs caused Google Maps API key lookups to fail on deployment.
Nginx rewrite rule
A simple Nginx config snippet to redirect www to non-www domain.
jQuery Ajax Queue
Using jQuery's queue function to run AJAX requests sequentially without blocking the browser, a better alternative to async false.
New fangled technologies
A short reminder that excitement about new tools is a poor indicator of their production readiness — experiment and ship are different things.
Crafting Appropriate URLs with the Token API
Using Drupal's Token API with custom hooks to build dynamic URL patterns based on taxonomy terms, beyond what Pathauto provides.