Old Switcheroo - Swap Your Stuff
The latest and (I dare-say) greatest thing I’ve been working on is Old Switcheroo.
Continue Reading…Posted by Steve on Mar 21, 2009
Old Switcheroo Released!
Should have done this about a week ago, but better late than never. Old Switcheroo has been officially released to the public! Right now we have over 100 users and over 300 items for trade, which isn’t too bad for one weeks time. So tell your friends, and have them tell their cousins, and so on. Tell them it is eco-friendly (2nd ‘R’ in reduce-reuse-recycle). Tell them it’s like using ‘teh’ instead of ‘the’, it’s so cool. Enjoy!
Continue Reading…Posted by Steve on May 14, 2009
Restful Authentication Woes
I recently started a new project (details forthcoming) and of course needed the restful_authentication plugin for getting users logged in. Unfortunately I ran into some problems right out of the box.
Continue Reading…Posted by Steve on Jan 22, 2009
Ruby battleship tournament
So I’ve been diligently working away on an entry for the upcoming battleship sparring tournament on Dec 1. It has been extremely fun. I think I’m almost done (just like every other project, eh?), and I thought I would share some insight into what I have learned, mainly about targeting strategies.
Continue Reading…Posted by Steve on Nov 15, 2008
Memoizing with arguments
At RubyConf right now and just finished the talk about Scaling Ruby (put on by the Rails Envy guys). At the end of the talk someone asked about how to roll your own memoization when your method takes arguments. It just so happens that the app I’m working had to handle this, and here is how we did it.
Continue Reading…Posted by Steve on Nov 06, 2008
