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Mustach Rails3 If your UI needs to hold state and do a little more then just returning a html string and updating a dom element(not that cool); then json is the way to go. Javascript is powerful so it can just receive the json and it can handle the state of the UI. We wanted [...]

Here’s a quick howto guide on installing Ruby 1.9.1, Rubygems 1.3.5 and dependencies on Ubuntu. The apt-sources version of Ruby is not the latest version, as such it is better to compile everything from source. First make sure your package sources are up to date and you have build essential and zlib1g-dev installed: sudo apt-get [...]

These are the slides of my presentation at LRUG lightening talks 2010. The talk was about a brief introduction of our latest application birdpie.com. Birdpie View more presentations from anupnarkhede. Here are few random snaps from the evening.

With the recent launch of Firefox 3.6, Firefox finally got support for CSS3 gradients (albeit vendor-specific). Safari (and other webkit based browsers) have had support for CSS gradients for a wee while now, and I will hopefully post about those in more detail in the near future. Today though is going to be exploring the [...]

Tonight the London Twitter Developer Nest #6 is happening at the Sun Microsystems building. We will be showcasing our new twitter application from the Dynamic50 labs: Birdpie. Birdpie is an automated bookmarking service that looks through your twitter feed and stores the URLs you tweet. Entrance is free and there are over 100 people attending. [...]

MongoMapper Active Model State Machine So you want a state machine for you mongo mapper? Active model now comes with a nice looking state machine; I really like the multi parameters you can send to the on_transition methods; class StateMachineSubject state_machine :chetan_patil, :initial => :sleeping do state :sleeping state :showering state :working state :dating event [...]

Follow these steps if you wish to add a sitemap.xml generator to a rails application. The idea is to generate a sitemap.xml for selected records from the database, in this case they are Articles and Categories. This sitemap is pinged to popular search engines like google, yahoo, bing and ask. Step 1: Add a sitemap.rb [...]

We have just released Birdpie, a small twitter application for storing and managing the urls that you tweet. Birdpie utilises Twitter auth in order to simplify the sign up process and is Dynamic50′s first experimentation with Rails 3.0 pre.Once a user is signed up, Birdpie fetches all previous bookmarks (or as many allowed by Twitter). [...]

Introduction What is 3D secure? 3D Secure is a latest initiative for fraud prevention launched by Visa and MasterCard. 3D Secure adds additional password authentication step to complete the online transactions. A detailed introduction is available at http://www.sagepay.com/developers/industry_knowledge/3d_secure.asp. This tutorial is a guide to set up a Ruby on Rails test environment for 3D Secure [...]

Ever since installing Snow Leopard on my machine, I’ve had problems using some of the commands with the Git bundle on Textmate. One of the more annoying ones was with ‘Pull’, whereby it would spit out some error message along the lines of… /Library/Application Support/TextMate/Bundles/Git.tmbundle/Support/tmvc/lib/ruby_tm_helpers.rb:70:in `basename’: can’t convert nil into String plus a whole load [...]