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Deploying Rails in Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud

over 5 years ago by Peter Krantz on Peter Krantz.
Here is a cool thing which I didn’t hear of until today. Amazon provides a service where you can upload a machine image (think VMWare), deploy it...

Optimizing Rails template helper methods

almost 6 years ago by Peter Krantz on Peter Krantz.
Stefan Kaes is at it again with some interesting code to optimize Rails template helper methods. I have always wondered about some of the helper methods...

Multiple annoyances with Rails (more than one security issue)

almost 6 years ago by Peter Krantz on Peter Krantz.
There have been a number of issues with Rails popping up yesterday and today. First there was the announcement that Rails 1.1.4 had a security issue. Discussions...

Speaking at RailsConf Europe

almost 6 years ago by Peter Krantz on Peter Krantz.
I received an interesting email from the organizers of the european Rails conference yesterday. My talk proposal “Building Accessible Web Sites on...

Testing Google’s Accessible Search with the Ruby Accessibility Analysis Kit

almost 6 years ago by Peter Krantz on Peter Krantz.
Recently Google Labs released Google Accessible Search - Accessible Web Search for the Visually Challenged. Running the search page (http://labs.google...

Languages Influence Your Thought Process

almost 6 years ago by Peter Krantz on Peter Krantz.
When I studied social antropology a couple of years ago I never thought that it would influence my future programming endeavours. At that time we looked...

Automated accessibility tests in Ruby on Rails

almost 6 years ago by Peter Krantz on Peter Krantz.
A couple of days ago I released RAAKT - The Ruby Accessibility Analysis Kit gem (I know, it really needs a better name). RAAKT is a gem that can be used...

Porting the Python Accessibility Analysis Kit to Ruby

almost 6 years ago by Peter Krantz on Peter Krantz.
At RailsConf in Chicago I realized that it would be a good idea to port PAAKT to Ruby and make sure it can be used for automatic accessibility tests in...

Rapid prototyping makes usability testing easier

almost 6 years ago by Peter Krantz on Peter Krantz.
In an article over at Dancingmango Marc McNeill writes about how new web development frameworks such as Ruby on Rails will have an impact on usability testing...

Two additional problems for Rails: eat SOAP and connect to MSSQL

almost 6 years ago by Peter Krantz on Peter Krantz.
At the opening keynote here at RailsConf in Chicago Dave Thomas (of Pragmatic Programmer fame) presented three problems for the Rails community to solve...