Category Archives: Development

Deploying Rails 3.1 applications with Capistrano

I’m currently working on an application using the latest RC of Rails 3.1 (rc5, which is actually quite stable). In Continue Reading →

By Matthew Savage Posted on August 11, 2011 – 5:41 pm | Also posted in General |
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Problems logging in to Snow Leopard domain after install OS X Lion

TL;DR Just installed Lion and can’t log in? Boot into recovery, open terminal, enter resetpassword, reset root password, reboot, login Continue Reading →

By Matthew Savage Posted on July 24, 2011 – 9:20 pm | Also posted in General, IT Consulting, User Experience |
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Params Filtering in Rails the custom way – masking the content

Want to filter out parameters in your rails logs, but don’t want to just replace it with [FILTERED]? Its not as hard as you think…

By Matthew Savage Posted on November 23, 2010 – 9:13 pm | Also posted in General |
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The Giant Automagical ImageMagick and Fonts install script

A script to install ImageMagick, and its dependencies, without the fuss.

By Matthew Savage Posted on July 31, 2010 – 8:52 pm | Also posted in General |
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‘Did you mean….’ style searching in your database

I bet this has happened to everyone, you are in a rush, you mis-type something and instead of writing ‘polka-dotted Continue Reading →

By Matthew Savage Posted on May 11, 2010 – 7:40 pm | Also posted in Business, General, User Experience | Comments (0)

The 'hidden' costs of a Rails website

I need to get something out on the ‘internets’ – running a website isn’t cheap. Don’t get me wrong – Continue Reading →

By Matthew Savage Posted on April 29, 2010 – 9:38 am | Also posted in Business, IT Consulting |
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Managing your unruly javascript files

With any large web project there is always a lot of javascript following along. There are always some exception to Continue Reading →

By Matthew Savage Posted on March 28, 2010 – 4:33 am | Also posted in General, Home |
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Grand Central Dispatch and MacRuby

I recently put together a little utility application to bundle some repetitive tasks within a project I’ve been working on Continue Reading →

By Matthew Savage Posted on January 26, 2010 – 12:32 am | Also posted in Home |
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Keeping the day moving on.

Ohhh, something shiny!

By Matthew Savage Posted on December 1, 2009 – 12:56 pm | Also posted in Business, General, Home |
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The reason why I charge extra for sites that work on IE6

IE6 is dead – please move along. The AU Government is doing its self a disservice by holding on to such a relic.

By Matthew Savage Posted on November 13, 2009 – 9:15 am | Also posted in Business, Home |
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