While implementing an awesome design, I needed to dynamically create a mirror effect on some thumbnails. Since I’m more or less dedicated to Paperclip, I decided to see if it could be done, without any monkeypatching. Here’s what I came up with.
Being a new decade and all, I got some inspiration to do a little work on my blog again. This time I wanted to get up to speed with things, and make my markup valid HTML5. I also polished up the design a bit, adding some icons and stuff.
Tonight I decided to try making NGINX handle my zip generating, to save the server some work, and the user of some frustration waiting for background jobs to finish. Here’s what I came up with.
After playing around with wave in the developer preview, and giving it some thought, we tried the new beta version of Google Wave in a real-life scenario at the office today. Four of us were doing a sales effort (new experience), and found it to be a great tool for this purpose.
After some drooling over the recent macbooks that have been popping up all over the office during the summer, I finally got my own little shiny toy today. Thought I’d write a few words about my experience so far.
When applying a new design to one of our projects, we were in a need of a Paperclip style with rounded corners. Luckily for us we had Paperclip’s :convert_options and strong ImageMagick-fu.
I decided to sit down and try to make my own little useless Google Wave robot tonight, and check out the current state of Ruby on Wave.
I’ve been playing around with Google Wave since last night, and would like to share some of my first impressions.
I got invited to participate in the Google Wave Sandbox test today!
Ever had a “oh-sh*t” moment when doing something related to mailing in development mode? This little plugin for rails prevents you from having any more of those moments, in a very clever way.
Exif data is a must-have for browsing through your photos. Adobe Bridge has it, F-Spot has it, and so does about every filebrowser out there, so why not include it in your own database when uploading these photos to your app?
Image resizing, or other post-processing of Paperclip attachments, can be a long running task in some scenarios. Luckily for us, it’s pretty simple to hook on to Paperclip and run the heavy parts as a background job. This example goes through a normal photo upload.