Julien Desrosiers A freelance Web developer based in Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:01:37 http://juliendesrosiers.com Build an Automator script to upload images to your server

The problem

I always need to send people screenshots. For this, i used to use LittleSnapper to publish the screenshots on my server (at http://s.juliendesrosiers.ca/*) for other people to see them.

It worked great, but for the sake of learning …

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The renowned cellist Yegor Dyachkov came to us asking for a CMS for his new website. So we created a simple, Sinatra-based (programmed in Ruby), CMS that makes it possible for him to manage all of his site’s content.

The excellent graphic …

]]> Sun, 18 Sep 2011 00:00:00 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JulienDesrosiers/~3/pDa417-duXo/yegordyachkov-com http://juliendesrosiers.com/2011/09/18/yegordyachkov-com Run Gollum on Pow Ever wanted your own Github-style wiki on your own mac server? Read on…

Gollum is the Git-powered wiki that is used in the Github’s wiki system. This tutorial will show you how to run it on Pow’s zero-configuration server on your mac.

Step …

]]> Wed, 20 Jul 2011 00:00:00 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JulienDesrosiers/~3/nIz4oXX4i24/run-gollum-on-pow http://juliendesrosiers.com/2011/07/20/run-gollum-on-pow JulienMP3Player: an MP3 Player jQuery plugin (Yes, in JavaScript!) These days i’m creating a website for a musician. And he needed an MP3 player for his website. So my first thought was to use an open source MP3 in flash . But since i need to extend it, i looked at the AS2 code and i thought about the possibility …

]]> Sat, 02 Apr 2011 00:00:00 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JulienDesrosiers/~3/u6WMDAP1Lc4/julienmp3player http://juliendesrosiers.com/2011/04/02/julienmp3player Auto-Generating CRUDs in Sinatra, for fun and profit I’m currently building yet another CMS, this time with Sinatra. And i was having a lot of code duplication in my controllers where i created the usual CRUD (Create Read Update Delete) actions.

Here’s how it works: I have this base class …

]]> Mon, 21 Mar 2011 00:00:00 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JulienDesrosiers/~3/U01oxWGYcBg/auto-generating-cruds-in-sinatra-for-fun-and-profit http://juliendesrosiers.com/2011/03/21/auto-generating-cruds-in-sinatra-for-fun-and-profit Fixing the “bundled mysql.rb driver has been removed from Rails 2.2″ error I’m migrating dumpyourtime.com to my new VPS at Linode and i had a hard time getting this rails (2.3.8) app to work on my setup (REE, Passenger 3/Apache2, MySQL, Ubuntu 10.04) because of the mysql gem.

I was getting this error on my apache …

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KahnwawakeVoices.com is a project commissioned by Studio XX for the Mohawk community of Kahnawake. There is a custom CMS which is coded with Ruby on Rails. The front-end is in HTML, CSS (by Julie Desforges), some Flash and a bit of JavaScript.

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]]> Fri, 19 Nov 2010 00:00:00 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JulienDesrosiers/~3/9jnDywA02J8/kahnawakevoices-com http://juliendesrosiers.com/2010/11/19/kahnawakevoices-com Saving hours with Anemone and Nokogiri Today, i’ve been working on a WordPress site that needed to be moved to another server and also another domain. This site had quite a few (absolute) internal links in its content — that had URLs like http://oldsite.com — and i needed to …

]]> Mon, 08 Nov 2010 00:00:00 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JulienDesrosiers/~3/5RBIXOTN9SE/saving-hours-with-anemone-and-nokogiri http://juliendesrosiers.com/2010/11/08/saving-hours-with-anemone-and-nokogiri Announcing my first jQuery plugin: JulienRSSWidget Recently, i created a jQuery plugin to easily grab and display RSS feeds in your website.

You can see it in action here.

You can download/fork it here.

Let me know what you think!

]]> Fri, 22 Oct 2010 00:00:00 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JulienDesrosiers/~3/d4Zg6dIFgQA/announcing-my-first-jquery-plugin-julienrsswidget http://juliendesrosiers.com/2010/10/22/announcing-my-first-jquery-plugin-julienrsswidget howto bootstrap your own server at home (with a dynamic IP) Warning: running a server of any kind at home is a security risk. Security problems are sometimes found in server software, and these can be exploited to gain access to or damage your files. Your computer must be kept absolutely up to date with …

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MontrealHackers.com is a feed aggregator that is built with Ruby on Rails. It also has a Twitter bot that tweets the latest posts.

]]> Fri, 10 Sep 2010 00:00:00 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JulienDesrosiers/~3/DMyuch2UehI/montrealhackers-com http://juliendesrosiers.com/2010/09/10/montrealhackers-com Fixing ActionView::SafeBuffer deprecation warning with Ckeditor in Rails 2.3 I’m currently building a small CMS for a client, with Ruby on Rails 2.3.8 and i’m using the rails-ckeditor plugin. I had a lot of these deprecation warnings :

DEPRECATION WARNING: ActionView::SafeBuffer is deprecated! Use …

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