Musings of a startup junkie and Ruby on Rails nerd.
Welcome to Millarian! I write about web development, Ruby on Rails, consulting, and the occasional startup lesson learned the hard way.
Creative Commons
A look at the Creative Commons movement and Google's donation to their annual fundraiser
Thumbnails with RMagick
Generating proportionally scaled image thumbnails in Rails using ImageMagick and RMagick
Rails link_to and HTML options
How to pass HTML attributes like title to the Rails link_to helper method
Life outside the Valley
You don't need to be in Silicon Valley to build a successful tech startup
Rocking the Vote!
Inspired by Danah Boyd's talk on cynicism and the importance of young voters registering
Self-Referential, Many-to-Many Relationships
Modeling a friends list in Rails using has_and_belongs_to_many with a self-referencing join table
Salted Hash Login Generator
Tips for getting the Rails SaltedHashLoginGenerator working properly
Second Draft of Executive Summary
Lessons learned from refining a startup executive summary using Garage Technology Ventures resources
Stop me if you've heard this one...
How a failed first startup led me to start over and launch a new company