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Re: Polymorphic Associations and Interfaces In Ruby/Rails

Muhamad Akbar Bin Widayat — Fri, 31 May 2013 02:17:46 -0000

Nice article, this article is useful and I learn a lot of the polymorphic on rails.

Re: HabitualApp: Making Habits that Stick

Laurie Young — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 05:33:51 -0000

Hi Dennis,

No, I took the site down, as it wasn't getting much use, and there are a few alternatives. I will write a post on this blog sometime soon giving you some alternate options

Re: HabitualApp: Making Habits that Stick

dennis — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 18:35:22 -0000

Is it still onli ? Links are dead.

Re: Best Practice work-flow with git

murdocj — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 07:24:58 -0000

I think the latest version of subversion does remember merge points between branches, but we were using an older version that didn't.

The merging did work most of the time. There were conflicts where two people edited the same line in the file, but I don't see how you can get around that sort of thing.

BTW, we're trying to settle on a workflow for using Git, which is why I was interested in this page. I'm used to the flow of committing to a main line or trunk, and when a release is done, branching at that point to support the release (e.g. fixes made on the branch and merged to trunk). Do people work that work that way with Git? For a small group with a release cycle of every month or so that seems more straightforward than the flow of having a gatekeeper merge my branch to master and then master to stable. We're small enough that the gatekeeper is likely to be the person making the change.

Re: Best Practice work-flow with git

Laurie Young — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 06:39:36 -0000

The real problem comes with merging, and consists of two parts:

* You need to remember what the last merge point was, and provide it as command line option when doing the merge. Other tools like git work even if you can't remember the last point you did a merge at
* The conflict resolution algorithm in SVN is not as advanced as with most other tools. That means you spend more time having to resolve the conflicts after a merge

Re: Best Practice work-flow with git

murdocj — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 21:08:02 -0000

I don't understand why people think branches are a problem in subversion. Branches are cheap and quick to create and easy to use in subversion. We used them quite successfully, including doing some major development for about a year on a branch while we released several times from trunk.

Re: The best way to become a great photographer – Practice

Rvaughan — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 19:03:49 -0000

Thank you so much for giving a lot of tips intaking pictures. love your article.

Re: Deploying with Foreman in multiple environments

Lukáš Konarovský — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 10:50:07 -0000

Foreman decides which working path it will use based on path to procfile, so it will be set to config/procfiles and that is something you probably do not want.

Excerpt from Foreman source code:
@directory = File.expand_path(File.dirname(procfile))

Quick hacky fix:

+ run "cd #{current_path} && sudo sed -i 's/\\/config\\/procfiles//' /etc/init/#{application}-*-*.conf"

Re: The best way to become a great photographer – Practice

dd — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 08:56:17 -0000

Hey, I saw you commented on electrictoolbox.com/jquery-... saying you found a way to make google maps v3 and facebox work together.
Could you please spare a few minutes to show me the code (javascript + html) ? I'd really appreciate it..

Re: Kanban Check – A daily overview of Kanban

Laurie Young — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 05:29:07 -0000

Yup, and underneath you find the clean shining clear waters of a well run taskboard :-)

(thanks for pointing out the typo - fixed it now)

Re: Kanban Check – A daily overview of Kanban

John @ Lunar Logic Polska — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 04:47:48 -0000

Does 'the scum process' involve scraping off a layer of murk and filth to gaze at clear pure waters below, I wonder...?

Re: Deploying with Foreman in multiple environments

Ismael Celis — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 08:27:45 -0000

This is very useful Laurie, thanks!

Re: Capistrano Task Graph and 3 reasons why it sucks

Andy Stewart — Thu, 12 May 2011 04:55:56 -0000

I couldn't agree more. In fact I always have to come back to your diagram when I'm adding Capistrano before/after callbacks to figure out where to attach them; it's impossible to remember.

Re: Getting stuck in Commitment Debt

Laurie Young — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 06:03:19 -0000

I was thinking of ideas I hear for dealing with financial debt.

You can do:
* the mathematically optimal strategy of paying all spare money into one debt with the highest interest rate
* the psychological trick of paying all spare money into the smallest debt, so reduce the count of the debts
* Balancing the payments over all debts, which often increases total repayments, and maintains the count of debts as quite high

Re: Getting stuck in Commitment Debt

Jim Benson — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 10:57:14 -0000

I like that you grabbed a pet project of the week and just pounded away at it. I have a blog post in the queue about this very thing - visualizing the projects you've signed up for and figuring out ways to achieve them rationally. We often feel like we need to do bring an entire project to completion when we start it, but there can be phases.

For example, my friend Tony just did a preliminary strike on his garden. He got rid of an old pond, leveled ground and created new planters. In a few months, he'll actually get in and start planting.

Some commitment debts need a balanced payment plan.

Re: Getting stuck in Commitment Debt

xtremobyte — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 07:28:37 -0000

Simple to write, difficult to ride. great post

Re: Practice daily tactical decision making

søgemaskineoptimering — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 19:17:44 -0000

You want to be successful I don't know what you want to do with your day, week or life. However I am sure that whatever it is, ..

Re: Influencer Number

Angus Finlayson — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 10:39:32 -0000

That's a very difficult question to answer! I think less in numbers and more in personal action. I would say it is nigh on impossible to add up how many people you have influenced and because of this I think it's more important to ensure you are influencing people positively rather negatively. And to acheive this making sure you are as positive as you can be, in as many interactions with people as possible. :)

Re: HabitualApp: Making Habits that Stick

Nickcro — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 08:06:18 -0000

Done. Thanks

Re: HabitualApp: Making Habits that Stick

Nickcro — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 03:16:27 -0000

Hmm I'm not sure what the deal is, I haven't clicked on the button yet so it's not that but yea even while pressing shift click it's still doing the same deal. Ah well, better luck next time I guess

Re: HabitualApp: Making Habits that Stick

Laurie Young — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 11:09:24 -0000

If that doesn't work, drop me an email at laurie at habitualapp dot com. I'm just preparing the app as a chrome extension, and I can add you to the beta-tester list

Re: HabitualApp: Making Habits that Stick

Laurie Young — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 11:08:30 -0000

Can you try reloading the page while forcing a cache-update. (Hold down shift when clicking on reload I believe) I only experienced this while the "Like this page on facebook" link was shown, and that is currently not on the site.

Re: HabitualApp: Making Habits that Stick

Nickcro — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 08:06:37 -0000

Yes I'm still getting the problem, in chrome and firefox it seems to just refresh the page constantly without showing any gui. After testing it in Internet explorer the Login button is just completely missing so I don't have the chance to login, please keep working on it though. This seems like something which could be amazingly helpful to many people.

Re: HabitualApp: Making Habits that Stick

Laurie Young — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 09:24:23 -0000

Are you still getting this? I have had this a few times, but pretty sure I have found and removed the offending bit of code

Re: HabitualApp: Making Habits that Stick

Nickcro — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 19:22:36 -0000

I'm really looking forward to seeing this application up and running. I was going to post about it
on my blog - http://www.difficultventure... but at the moment the login seems to just keep refreshing the page in a loop. I've tried it in Chrome and Firefox. I'm also looking forward to when you make
an option to login without facebook. Either way it looks great, can't wait