Jamie van Dyke News Feed

Twitter + World of Warcraft Announcements

2009-05-03T12:03:42+01:00

It’s been a while since I posted anything, and I intend to fix that with smaller posts that describe things I’m doing. So let’s start off this new regime with a little post about a tiny script I wrote the other day for my WoW guild. We are now using a twitter account to post...

May

2009-05-03T12:03:42+01:00

May Twitter + World of Warcraft Announcements(2009-05-03) It’s been a while since I posted anything, and I intend to fix that with smaller posts that describe things I’m doing. So let’s start off this new regime with a little post about a tiny script I wrote the...

Building a Gem Using BDD

2009-01-09T15:28:01+00:00

I wrote this article for the first edition of “The Rubyist”, and having left it a good set of months, I’m posting it here for your perusal. The internet is full of tutorials and blogs on Rails, but lacking in the Ruby Gem building department, and as part of my work for Engine...

Filtering Passwords in the Rails Log

2008-01-13T14:57:46+00:00

Every time a user logs on to your Rails site, they enter a username or password. The login form you’ve created no doubt POST’s that value to your Rails application, which it then kindly logs in your production.log. This is fine for development, but what about when you deploy your site...

Red and Yellow And...

2008-12-06T23:29:09+00:00

One of my last projects required me to spend a ridiculous amount of time categorising images into groups of colour. What a pain in the gluteus maximus. So bollocks to that, let’s see if we can’t automate it a little to cut down on the flak. Prepare So, the tools for today’s...

Oh, the Memories

2008-05-03T02:20:11+01:00

Let’s pretend that you’re busy making a kick ass template maker, and you’d like to keep backups of the file you generate. You certainly don’t want to write over it every time, in case there’s customer changes that have been made since the last time you did. What if you...

Simple AJAX and Inline Javascript With Rails

2008-02-02T14:12:10+00:00

I’ve noticed a lot of people asking questions about ajax, rjs, scriptaculous and other whizzy cool effects lately. So I thought I’d document a couple here so there’s less confusion about some of the simpler effects. I’ve included an element toggle on a hyper link, a simple...

Apple Leopard REXML Bug

2007-12-28T17:12:29+00:00

Just in case any of you wonder why when you use REXML's write method on ruby 1.8.6 (2007-09-24 patchlevel 111) [universal-darwin9.0] and possibly other versions, you get errors, it's a bug in Apple's REXML library. See this: 1 def write(writer=$stdout, indent=-1, transitive=false,...

2009

2009-01-09T15:28:01+00:00

2009 Twitter + World of Warcraft Announcements(2009-05-03) It’s been a while since I posted anything, and I intend to fix that with smaller posts that describe things I’m doing. So let’s start off this new regime with a little post about a tiny script I wrote the...

January

2009-01-09T15:28:01+00:00

January Building a Gem Using BDD(2009-01-09) I wrote this article for the first edition of “The Rubyist”, and having left it a good set of months, I’m posting it here for your perusal. The internet is full of tutorials and blogs on Rails, but lacking in the Ruby...