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Incentivizing Innovation

~3 years ago by wycats on Katz Got Your Tongue?.
One of the things I love the most about the Ruby community is how easy it is to try out small mutations in practices, which leads to very rapid evolution...

Evented Programming With jQuery

~3 years ago by wycats on Katz Got Your Tongue?.
Over the past several years, I’ve been actively using jQuery for a variety of things. Early on, I shared the frustration that people had around using...

Better Module Organization

~3 years ago by wycats on Katz Got Your Tongue?.
As I said in my last post, Carl and I have been working on a more modular version of ActionController. As we fleshed out the feature set, we had a few needs...

Another Dispatch: AbstractController

~3 years ago by wycats on Katz Got Your Tongue?.
On Monday, Carl started pairing with me on Rails 3. This week, we worked on further fleshing out the AbstractController. A few principles we’re following...

alias_method_chain in models

~3 years ago by wycats on Katz Got Your Tongue?.
As people know, there’s been a fair bit of back-and-forth between me, the apparent foe of alias_method_chain, and folks who feel that alias_method_chain...

Rack as a Transformative Figure

~3 years ago by wycats on Katz Got Your Tongue?.
I had occasion to think about Rack a few times today. First of all, I was writing some proposals to a few conferences about Rails, which always gets me...

S3 Moneta Store (also, a Rails update)

~3 years ago by wycats on Katz Got Your Tongue?.
As I had hoped, moneta has been encouraging various members of the community to play with using a unified key/value abstraction where they would typically...

What’s the Point?

over 3 years ago by wycats on Katz Got Your Tongue?.
So after my announcement about moneta yesterday, a very common question was “what’s the point of this?” There are basically two targets: If you are...

Initial Release of Moneta: Unified Key/Value Store API

over 3 years ago by wycats on Katz Got Your Tongue?.
I’m happy to announce the (very) initial release of a new library called moneta, which aims to provide a unified interface for key/value stores. The interface...

Some Days…

over 3 years ago by wycats on Katz Got Your Tongue?.
I started today with a (I thought) pretty simple task that I expected to be able to dispense with in an hour or two. The task was to modify param parsing...