In the process of building a Rails app for my day job, I found myself actually needing 2 independent forms of authentication primarily because I’ve 2 independent models that “users” authenticate as. To explain a bit more, my application has 2 points of entry: “Applicant” – enters the system and does things like applicants do (fill out forms, check history, etc. “User”...

The very first time I installed Rails on my PowerBook I used the instructions from nanorails.com, “Installing Rails on Mac OS X Tiger” which proved to be invaluable for getting me started with understanding Rails, and Darwin Ports (now, MacPorts) as a package manager. Well, I just got another MacBook Pro and had to install Rails again, but this time I came across a set of instructions from paulsturgess.co.uk...

I’m amazed at the amount of people giving Apple flac for the Apple iPhone adds. You hear stories about the deceptivenes of Apple not showing the delay time between switching from the different applications and accessing the internet. Please … so the videos are perfect – so what! I’ve seen the same kind of ads with other cell phones and providers, just as well; not to mention the wireless...

The last 2 days have been quite revolutional and revelational now that I’m using Basecamp for managing my projects. <% :note => “to self” %> write about that in the future<% end %> Well I wanted to use a post commit hook type functionality when checking in code. I did not however want to use an automatic update but one I could control manually. Thanks so much to TeamAskins...

(original link from QJ.NET and gizmodo)