Adding flash message capability to your render calls in Rails
Ruby on Rails 3.x has given us a lot of syntactical sugar. Most of it are pretty small things, things you might not even discover unless someone told…
Heroku Nightly Database Backups with Cron
I thought I’d share a quick tip how to do nightly database backups with Cron at Heroku.
Cron tasks for your Rails application with Resque
The most common way to have cron tasks with your Rails application is to have a Rake task and configure it’s periodic execution in the crontab. This allows…
Rails 3.1 and asset pipeline
When we heard the announcement of Ruby on Rails 3.1 RC, we agreed that we upgrade one of our internal applications and check out all of the new…
Adobe Reader Protected Mode
Adobe Reader Protected mode is a new security sandbox feature in Adobe Reader 10. For Reader plugin maintainers it’s can be a huge nightmare, I just wanted to…
Optimizing Ruby on Rails applications with NodeJS
Last week we had an interesting problem to solve in one of our projects. And as the result of this solution, we unexpectedly ended up using NodeJS. In…
Proj4js, L-EST and GeoPoint
This post is about converting Estonian coordinates (L-EST 97, L-EST 92) to the common lon/lat format that probably everyone is familiar with (EPSG4326 or WGS84).
OAuth Disco – No fluff, just code
OAuth is really nice, but it can be quite confusing to get started with. If you’re the sort of person who likes to look at code instead of…
Correct PayPal IPN handling with Rails
While working with different PayPal payment APIs, I have read a lot of tutorials, library code and documentation about the given matter. While there are several quite competent…
Embedding long SQL queries in Objective-C source code
Thought I’d share a tip with you guys how to embed long queries in Objective-C source code. I think I found a pretty neat solution involving a couple…