Reindex spotlight in OS X Leopard (2)

December 15, 2007 11:19

I recently upgraded to OS x Leopard, and afterwards noticed that spotlight was failing to find certain applications. It was necessary to delete the index database in order to force reindexing. This...

Safari 3 bugs (5)

June 22, 2007 10:11

Like over a million others (at time of writing) i have upgraded to Safari 3. There are some great new features which are covered in other blog posts, but i am also encountering a few problems... Ap...

GET and POST in Ruby on Rails (5)

May 24, 2007 11:42

Lets start with the basics..... What are GET and POST? GET and POST specify the two main ways by which the browser sends a form's data to the server for processing. The Get method contacts the s...

Select helper methods in Ruby on Rails (50)

May 01, 2007 14:41

It can get quite confusing when it comes to using the different select helpers, select, select_tag and collection_select and in my opinion there is a lack of adequate documentation. For my own use ...

Simple debugging in ruby on rails (3)

April 24, 2007 11:37

I often find while writing a ruby on rails applications that i need to display the contents of a variable quickly and easily, this is straight forward in a view, but not so easy in a controller or ...

My first post! (10)

April 18, 2007 15:56

My first blog post! and i am quite pleased with myself. I wrote this blog application from scratch using Ruby on Rails, its kind of an experiment, i get to try out new features, and generally use t...