Maintainable Software: Rails Logging Tips

Ruby on Rails comes prewired for logging using Logger from the Ruby Standard Library. This article by Mike Zaberezny demonstrates how to use the Rails logger, how to create your own logs, and offers some tips for debugging with console logging.

Outside In Development With Cucumber

Another great slideshow on cucumber and behavior driven development.

The LAZY Developer’s Guide to BDD (with Cucumber)

A good explanation of Behavior Driven Development with Cucumber

Don’t Stop Supporting IE6

Just don't work too hard at it - send them the printer stylesheet or something!

Ruby on Rails Code Quality Checklist – Matthew Paul Moore

Rails best practices. There's a growing need to ensure that code and design strategies maintain an extremely high level of quality across different projects. Ruby has hugely different (and better!) ways of OO design, and the Rails framework has a lot of opinions to be understood and remembered.

Tutorial on ruby-debug

A useful cheat sheet for ruby debugging using the ruby-debug gem.

Massive Regular Expressions Toolbox | tripwire magazine

One of the best articles on regular expressions that I've found.

Send photos from iPhoto to Wordpress using Ruby : RubyFlow

A cool little Ruby command line script to send selected photos from iPhoto to a draft post in a WordPress blog. Uses AppleScript and XMLRPC

Generate Random Passwords

I wrote an article on the Sustainable Websites Blog on a quick program to Generate Random Passwords.

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Summer 2009 Photos

I got a DSLR camera! Thanks Nicole! I am super excited to use it. Not all of these photos are from it, just the last ones.

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