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Integrating SMS into your Rails app with Textmarks

over 5 years ago by Yan Pritzker on skwpspace.
The new service Textmarks offers free keywords on the sms shortcode 41411 which can be forwarded as requests to any url on your website. I recently integrated...

Multi column list Rails helper

over 5 years ago by Yan Pritzker on skwpspace.
Of course once you’ve noticed the multi column list pattern is prevalent in your app, it only makes sense to turn it into a helper! Here’s the...

Multi column lists using in_groups_of

over 5 years ago by Yan Pritzker on skwpspace.
This code uses the basic technique outlined in this article to split the list up into several lists of a fixed size and then use css to float them into...

Rants on google & software dev

over 5 years ago by Yan Pritzker on skwpspace.
I just finished an insanely long post by Steve Yegge about working for Google and bashing Agile (the big A religious kind) and showing how Google does agile...

Five ways to get insane productivity boosts

over 5 years ago by Yan Pritzker on skwpspace.
It is said that really good programmers are orders of magnitude more productive than the average ones. What makes this the case? And why isn’t this...

Productivity Part II: RSS

over 5 years ago by Yan Pritzker on skwpspace.
As a follow up to my earlier productivity post for programmers, I realized that I had completely forgotten to talk about “RSS”:http://www.xml...

Recruiters are bad netizens

over 5 years ago by Yan Pritzker on skwpspace.
That’s right, I said it. Ever since I’ve been on LinkedIn, which I joined primarily to keep tabs on old colleagues, I’ve somehow opened...

Pretty tree display for all your Rails view partials

over 5 years ago by Yan Pritzker on skwpspace.
If you’re developing an app of significant complexity in Rails, you may start getting lost in a sea of partials. Inspired by an idea by my friend...

Tesly Jr.: free pretty reports of your rails test run

over 5 years ago by Yan Pritzker on skwpspace.
A new service called Tesly Jr is an amazingly clean and easy to use way to put your test results on the web. You download the tesly junior plugin, dump...

Quick mongrel load testing trick

over 5 years ago by Yan Pritzker on skwpspace.
Zed’s How many mongrels tutorial gives a good idea on how to load test mongrels to determine how many mongrels you should run on your box. Here’...