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.

GoRuCo 2008 Wrap-up

Highlights from the Gotham Ruby Conference, including story-driven development and code quality talks

events ruby code

Caching Locale-specific Dynamic JavaScript Files

Using ERB-rendered JavaScript with per-locale page caching in Rails

rails javascript how-to

GoRuCo 2008

Heading to New York for the Gotham Ruby Conference

events ruby

Rails Tip: Precision and scale for decimals

How to specify precision and scale for decimal columns in Rails migrations using BigDecimal

rails how-to

Rails counter_cache problem

Why counter_cache only updates one parent when creating through an association, and how to fix it

rails how-to

Integrum and me

How I left a stable defense job, taught myself Rails, and found a home at Integrum Technologies

business startups personal

Minor TextMate Annoyance

Customizing the TextMate do snippet to omit the block variable by default

code how-to

The Tip of the Ruby #1

Understanding the difference between or and || operator precedence in Ruby

ruby how-to

Search Engine Optimization for Coders

Notes from a Desert Code Camp talk on practical SEO tips for developers

seo code how-to

Discover your missing specs

A rake task that finds app files without corresponding RSpec test files and generates them

rails testing how-to