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Rails IE Conditional Tag Plugin

over 1 year ago by Bruce Williams on Codefluency.
There are a number of ways to support defining different CSS styles for specific versions of Internet Explorer: Known CSS Hacks (ie, tricking the parser...

Riak: A friendly key/value store for the web

almost 2 years ago by Bruce Williams on Codefluency.
A few days ago I had the opportunity to speak at DevNation Portland on Riak — a fun NoSQL system I’ve become interested in lately. Here are...

Speaking at DevNation Portland

almost 2 years ago by Bruce Williams on Codefluency.
Just a quick note — a rare spike of activity in my [sadly] dwindling ability to write anything on my blog… I’ll be speaking at DevNation...

A bandaid for Rcov on Ruby 1.9

~2 years ago by Bruce Williams on Codefluency.
If you’re running into issues with this encoding-related error using RCov 0.9.8 & Ruby 1.9.X: in `block in is_code?': invalid byte sequence in...

Checking Executables with Spex

~2 years ago by Bruce Williams on Codefluency.
If you’ve ever built (or configured) tools for system administration, you know the frustration of not being able to easily verify the effects of running...

RSpecfully, I disagree

~2 years ago by Bruce Williams on Codefluency.
RSpec has a very, very strong following in the Ruby community, and for a lot of good reasons. It’s fairly easy to use once you grok it, it’...

Constrain Yourself

~2 years ago by Bruce Williams on Codefluency.
I’ve been traveling a lot lately. After wrapping up two very successful weeks in the U.K. — a fun trip to Edinburgh, where I spoke at the Scottish...

A Child is Born (again)

over 5 years ago by Bruce Williams on Codefluency.
My second child (and son), Jamis Peter Williams, was born at 8:46pm MST yesterday, the 11th of September. We’re tired, and excited, and happy...

Hotkey Plugin

over 5 years ago by Bruce Williams on Codefluency.
Recently I needed to add hotkeys to our application for quick navigation. The result of this work is the Hotkey plugin, which I’m releasing today...

Rails Views: Rails Edge

almost 6 years ago by Bruce Williams on Codefluency.
Recently I accepted an invitation to be a speaker at The Rails Edge, a series of unique Rails-related conferences brought to you by the folks at The Pragmatic...