http://www.andhapp.com/blog Victory is mine Thu, 08 Jul 2010 23:26:37 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Just started another blog to talk about programming related stuff using Publisha. And the best thing is it will be on iPhone straight-away. I don't have to even move my finger. Cool. http://www.andhapp.com/blog/2010/07/09/publisha-the-one-stop-publishing-platform/ In my previous post, I mentioned a way of validating the size of the attachment and I did warn readers that it is a monkey-patch and it needs serious refactoring. Big refactoring is a result of several small ones and that's exactly what I have done here. I have extracted the ... http://www.andhapp.com/blog/2010/07/07/extend-paperclip-to-retrieve-images-dimensions/ Paperclip is an easy-to-use file upload gem released by Thoughtbot. It provides several validations out of the box like validation on size (as in file size) of the attachment, if the attachment is present or not and so on. However, it does not have any validations on the dimensions of ... http://www.andhapp.com/blog/2010/07/07/paperclip-and-validate-the-attachment-dimension/ Majority of us have seen this dreadful error after running rake:gems:unpack or a similar command to register gems with the application. config.gem: Unpacked gem clearance-0.8.8 in vendor/gems has no specification file. Run 'rake gems:refresh_specs' to fix this. I was under the impression that this happens due to some bug in rails ... http://www.andhapp.com/blog/2010/06/20/bundler-0925-rails-238-and-vendorgems-has-no-specification-file-error/ Safari 5 is awesome and one thing that sticks out is the Reader feature. It basically identifies some pages, for example: news pages on BBC, and allows user to produce a better, enhanced page with same text but much readable than before and devoid of any ads or pictures. But ... http://www.andhapp.com/blog/2010/06/20/when-safari-5s-reader-feature-fails/ Time selection via web has always been those grey areas where one does not really find good solutions. With the advent of Jquery, there are plethora of date selection javascripts out there. However, time selection has not received similar treatment. After much searching I found two solutions. The first one ... http://www.andhapp.com/blog/2010/06/12/jquery-jsspec-and-an-elegant-timepicker/ Life as a "Rails Developer" is a pretty smooth sailing and Bundler just makes it ever better. Rails 2.3.8 is the newest version from the Rails team. Don't get me wrong, I love to hack my way through Rails3 but time is a big constraint for the project I am ... http://www.andhapp.com/blog/2010/06/03/bundler-and-rails-238/ "If Rails is a smart organised businessman then PHP is a homeless bum." - an individual who spent hours looking at old skool PHP code http://www.andhapp.com/blog/2010/06/02/quote-of-the-day-18/ From Bob Sutton's blog . http://www.andhapp.com/blog/2010/05/29/pecking-order/ Taken from StackOverflow podcast #85, and it is beautiful. "Even very smart people have to be in the right place at the right time to be successful. The best success strategy is probably dogged, bullheaded persistence, because there are so many variables that you can't control or even predict." Very nice. http://www.andhapp.com/blog/2010/04/18/quote-of-the-day-17/