Peer Pressure Video
Blazing Cloud and Lucky Knives are excited to announce the official release of PeerPressure, an iPhone application that creates a virtual support group to help you meet your goals.
Choose from over 250 goal templates ranging from “Be Happier” to “Write a Book” or create your very own. PeerPressure draws in your friends via Twitter, [...]
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Peer Pressure Available Now on the App Store!
October 22, 2010 - 4:09 pm
Understanding git submodule
September 27, 2010 - 1:15 am
We recently upgrade & add some little features to our extension carousel based on “Infinite Carousel” by CatchMyFame.com. We were working in our extension repository, focusing just in javascript implementation within a test app. When we integrated to our radiant project and run it locally, it worked just fine. But after deploy I got:
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Rails 3: ActiveRecord
September 25, 2010 - 7:36 am
Rails 3 cheat sheet Part 2: ActiveRecord
Everything you know from Rails 2 still works and will for some time, but there is new cool stuff AND some of the Rails 2 syntax is deprecated and will eventually go away, so you should be aware.
1) Use first, last, all (not find(:first), find(:last) and find(:all)
2) New query [...]
Multiline document.write
September 24, 2010 - 3:34 pm
I was just refactoring some HTML and needed to move some of my markup out of the HTML file and into a JavaScript method so I can re-use it in multiple HTML files. Using document.write, I didn’t want to put all of the HTML on one line, and also didn’t want to have to add [...]
Test First SEO: Pretty Urls with Rails and to_slug Plugin
September 23, 2010 - 3:19 pm
I used to do search engine marketing before making the career switch to software engineering and I’ve been doing some work on classes.blazingcloud.net to help Google figure out what we are all about. The contents of the url is one of the many ways to improve Google’s understanding of a webpage. ‘Pretty Urls’ [...]
Rails 3: getting started
September 19, 2010 - 11:52 pm
Rails 3 Cliff Notes, Part 1: getting started
Requires Ruby 1.8.7 or higher, but Ruby 1.9.2 is very stable and you should use it for new projects (unless you deploy on Heroku). Use rvm to remain sane when switching between new and old projects. By creating a .rvmrc file, rvm will automatically switch you [...]
Peer Pressure for Rails 3
September 18, 2010 - 7:39 am
Blazing Cloud is working on a new iPhone application, called Peer Pressure. The idea is that you get your friends to help you achieve your goals. We’re beta testing it and it is at the point where I feel ready to try a public goal.
I’ve have been working on updating my class curriculum for the [...]
SVG Scripting with JavaScript Part 1: Simple Circle
September 17, 2010 - 9:57 pm
I recently embarked on the task of converting an interactive Flash widget to SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) and DHTML. The incentive for this project is primarily to make this widget work on the iPad which does not support the Flash player. SVG has been supported in all major browsers except for IE including mobile browsers [...]
guidlines for open source
September 17, 2010 - 10:20 am
Evan Phoenix (@evanphx), lead developer for Rubinius, spoke today at the Golden Gate Ruby Conference about how to effectively run or contribute to an open source project. Awesome talk. Great information that is pretty slow to figure out by osmosis.
Evan presented 4 guidelines:
Contributors are a privilege: sometimes they feel like a burden. They are providing [...]