Ok…If you really love SQL, this is not the article for you. I’m going to share a little trick I’ve learned that will let you do really complex queries without writing a lick of SQL.
Track Pageviews
Now, mongo isn’t the solution to every problem. But for some things, like action tracking, it is close to perfect.
How to Extract Font Names From TTF Files Using Python and Our Old Friend ‘the Command Line’
So you’re given an archive containing 10,000,000 .ttf files, most of which are named things like “bs019dfk.ttf”. How do you extract human readable names from these things?
Customize the Google Voice Call Widget With Rails & jQuery
So I have a client who needed a google voice widget embedded in their site.
If you’re not familiar with it, it’s a little widget that your site’s visitors
can use to call you.
Making a Million Little Color Swatches With Imagemagick and Rake
Yesterday I was working on a project, and found myself needing to create a bunch of color swatches. CSS wasn’t an option. No. They had to be little 16x16 images.
How to Use Rjs Templates With Uploadify: A Rails Multiple File Upload Extravaganza!
Warping Vector Text With Ruby & Cairo
I recently needed to create arched text in an application that uses Cairo. Unfortunately, Cairo doesn’t support warping text out of the box.