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.
Discrimination Based on Appearance
Why workplace discrimination over tattoos, piercings, and hairstyles is wrong
Rails Sweetness
Using single-table inheritance in Rails to model different address types for users and businesses
Almost Beta-worthy
Six weeks in, the startup prototype is nearly ready for private beta testers
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