Monthly Archives: July 2008

Kawaii – Get Your App’s script/console On The Web

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As the developers say, Kawaii is "a script/console that runs in your Web browser." Essentially, it lets you debug your app and play around with the data in your database in real-time from afar. Unlike script/console, however, Kawaii cleverly formats ActiveRecord responses (such as database objects) into an easy to read table. It also supports multiple tabs, allowing for several trains of thought to continue simultaneously.

Kawaii is open source and available on Github.

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Latest Bookmarks on Ma.gnolia.com

Here’s what I’m reading and bookmarking on the web WordPress Plugins for Comments Awesome overview of wordpress comments plugins Tags: wordpress, comments View all my bookmarks on Ma.gnolia

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The World of ‘Green Advertising’ (AdWeek)

If you recently happened to turn on the television, surf the Internet or leaf through a magazine, you’ll noticed that “green” is no longer only the favorite color of environmental groups. “Green” has become “mainstream” and turned into a big business. Continue reading

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Interviewed on Carbon Offsets Daily

originally posted here Interview: SustainableWebsites on the Soundness of Carbon Offsets to Combat Global Warming Carbon Offsets Daily: Do you think companies should use carbon offsets to mitigate their global warming emissions? SustainableWebsites: Yes. The old saying in carpentry is … Continue reading

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Organics Today: Who’s Buying and What’s Next

In 1997, The Hartman Group published its first strategic analysis of the rapidly changing organic market with the aptly titled report The Evolving Organic Marketplace. The report accurately predicted not only a fast-changing corporate game board within a vibrant subset of consumer packaged goods (where… Continue reading

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Testing from iphone

Wow, check out the WordPress app on the iTunes app store!

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Sitemap

A google sitemap plugin for rails websites. It generates dynamic sitemaps based on your models and named routes. It has a full mvc stack that you can configure.

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‘Green’ marketing loses buzz and credibility (International Herald Tribune)

Advertising industry experts say many people are growing skeptical about the proliferation of ads with an environmental message. Continue reading

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PeepCode Releases Phusion Passenger Screencast

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Quality Ruby-focused screencast publisher PeepCode has just released a screencast all about Phusion Passenger (previously well known as mod_rails), a now-common Rails deployment option. It costs $9 (as with all other PeepCode screencasts) and comes in at 54 minutes long. Of particular note is that the guys who developed Passenger were involved in the technical editing process, so you can be sure that the content is accurate.

The screencast is suited for both beginners and experts at Rails deployment, starting from the basics of simply deploying a single Rails application with Passenger and Capistrano through to the complex task of getting HTTPS/SSL to work with a Passenger deployed app.

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Will Paginate Acts As Searchable

Integrate will_paginate with acts_as_searchable

Movie.paginate_by_fulltext_search(params['q'],:page=>params[:page],:per_page=>1)

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