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.

Ethan's Dance Recital

Video of Ethan's hip-hop and tap dance recital performance

personal community

TwitterBot Gem Released

Announcing a Ruby gem for accessing Twitter via XMPP, plus the TwitterProps app built on it

ruby code

RailsConf 2008

Heading to Portland for RailsConf with the Integrum team

events rails

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