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.

Arizona's First Ruby Conference - SunnyConf 2010

SunnyConf 2010 is Arizona's first Ruby conference. With a great lineup of speakers, lightning talks and hacking, you won't want to miss it!

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IE tries to be helpful when using JavaScript to set the href attribute

When using JavaScript to set the href attribute of an anchor tag, IE sometimes updates the inner HTML. Why does this happen and what are some solutions?

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IE7 resize window problem

I describe a problem encountered in IE7 when dealing with a centered body and relatively positioned elements that appeared to have a fixed position.

javascript how-to

Honeypot Captchas for Rails

A simple, unobtrusive way to try to combat automated form spam.

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Quick Tip: Rails Named Bind Variables

How to use named bind variables in a Ruby on Rails query to increase readability and reduce duplication.

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Quick Tip: Cucumber Works-in-Progress

How to use the Cucumber tagging feature to tag scenarios.

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Quick Tip: Rails Singularization of -ess

How to handle singularization of words like 'business' and 'address' through custom inflection rules in Ruby on Rails.

rails how-to

Fixing Multipart Uploads in Rack for Ruby 1.9

Patch your Rack installation after seeing an 'invalid byte sequence in US-ASCII' error.

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Trimming the Fat from your Social Media Diet

Keep relevant people close while removing the irrelevant ones. Start trimming.

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Challenge Yourself to Create Better Relationships... Offline

I challenge you to spend some time building relationships in real life instead of focusing solely on virtual relationships.

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