http://www.thedreamshed.com Thoughts from Mick Hollins, Software Geek Mon, 31 Aug 2009 14:28:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Every now and again I hear a song lyric that really resonates with me for some reason or another. In particular, for many years I've had a couple of lyrics that I've called my "life mottos". The first one is from John Lennon: Life is what happens to you while you're ... http://www.thedreamshed.com/?p=52 I was scratching my head today (and doing a bit of swearing) when a web page that should have been centered no longer was on Internet Explorer. The page was still correctly centered in Safari and Firefox. The CSS for the centered element looked something like: width: 960px; ... http://www.thedreamshed.com/?p=29 RMagick is a ruby library for performing image manipulation. Whenever I use it I'm amazed at what can be achieved with just a few lines of code, so I thought I'd share my latest experience. The context was that I was working on the website for 2WayFitness and I wanted to ... http://www.thedreamshed.com/?p=15 Today I wrote a very simple functional test that had a line as follows: assert_redirected_to new_session_url When I ran it I got the following error: Missing host to link to! Please provide :host parameter or set default_url_options[:host] The fix was simple. Instead of using a url helper, I should have ... http://www.thedreamshed.com/?p=12 I've been running into a problem lately where my attempts to deploy new versions of my rail app were hanging. Specifically, when I ran: cap deploy Capistrano would hang executing the svn export command. It took me a while to work out what was happening, but it turned out that the ssh ... http://www.thedreamshed.com/?p=11 I tore my hair out tracking down a problem last week and figured I should share my solution. I'm currently experimenting with using the "Ext Javascript library":http://extjs.com to create much of the front end of a Ruby on Rails application. I hit a problem where using Rails' @page.replace@ was failing on ... http://www.thedreamshed.com/?p=7 This is a place to hold the musings of me, Mick Hollins. I've recently started my own company and so hopefully I'll get some time to write about some of my experiences. I'm a software developer. I've spent most of my adult life coding in C++/Java, and could never understand how these ... http://www.thedreamshed.com/?p=3