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A random collection of infrequently-updated mostly-tech-related howtos, updates and what-nots.

1. 2009

   1. September

      1. The WDS09 Tee

   2. June

      1. LAN hacking with Bananajour

   3. January

      1. I'm a little teapot

      2. Refreshed, realigned and ready for 2009

2. 2008

   1. December

      1. How to start building a website for your business

      2. Geekery catchup

   2. October

      1. Fixtureless datas with Machinist and Sham

   3. August

      1. RORO August meetup roundup and my preso slides

   4. July

      1. Why things have been a little quiet…

   5. May

      1. Merb → Mongrel, not Mongrel → Merb

   6. April

      1. HAML + Merb Helpers? Very noice.

      2. To Fork or Branch

      3. Github vs Gitorious and centralised development revisited

   7. March

      1. Moving on from centralised-decentralised development, or: what’s after github and gitorious?

   8. February

      1. Presentation: Rails Two Dot Oh

   9. January

      1. Sydney Rubinius Sprint

      2. Different validations for the same ActiveRecord model

      3. Merb Routing in 0.5

      4. Multiple file selection with a :)

3. 2007

   1. December

      1. Keeping the keys to your OpenID identity using delegation

      2. Anti-Santa

      3. Sharing git repositories via OS X’s built-in web sharing

      4. Setting up a new remote git repository

      5. Setting up a new Rails app with Git

      6. Comment spammers currently at zero

      7. Mocking OpenID authentication for offline development

      8. Rollin your own attachment_fu messages evil twin stylee

      9. Core Animation Menu Application sample code

   2. November

      1. Cap deploy via SCP

      2. Simple step-based validation with ActiveRecord

      3. DropShots

   3. October

      1. Jelly in Sydney

      2. Presentation: Supporting Time Zones

      3. Old-skool Ajax zoop Box

      4. SMSes on Rails – u r hot! I wnt u 2nite.

   4. September

      1. 1 <3 parallel.rb

      2. Per-hamster ActionMailer template paths

   5. August

      1. First FB app: Which Artist Are You?

      2. New Flickr Set SMS Notifications

      3. The new Backpack: a shinier engine but a dull paint job

      4. I can has faces API

      5. New RORO site and first video

   6. July

      1. A “DHH Approved” Logo?

      2. Geek Trivia Night in Sydney

      3. RORO Sydney August Meetup

      4. First rails-oceania gem released: goto_string

      5. Lachie’s hax day

      6. RORO July Meetup

      7. Rails Camp 07 Rundown

      8. Blog resources for Rails newcomers?

   7. June

      1. Logging Rails to SysLog with SyslogLogger

      2. Integration testing with RSpec and Doogie

      3. RedAnt

   8. May

      1. New Inventors Google gadget

      2. 2007’s Mad Month of Events

      3. Consolidating your app’s constants

      4. Breaking hearts

      5. Railscamp photos: Camp Chapman

      6. RDoc preso at Rails Sydney May meetup

      7. Getting Rails talking to SQLServer on OSX via ODBC

      8. Customising autotest

      9. Railscamp day passes

   9. April

      1. Rails Oceania coding powa

      2. ical feed in 5 minutes

      3. Introduction to RDoc

      4. Peepswag

   10. March

       1. Lookin for a new team member

       2. If you’ve been ignoring mocking

       3. bangbang your nil is dead

       4. Capistrano for (gasp) non-rails apps

       5. Announcing RailsCamp07

       6. DIY field validation reflection

       7. tumble me too

       8. Detecting subversion changes with rexml

       9. CruiseControl.rb

       10. and the licking continues

       11. The first Bar Camp Sydney

       12. timwouldlickit.com

       13. Idol Jamming

   11. February

       1. A new jobfutures.com.au and my BDD/RSpec preso

       2. Full-blown APIs with respond_to?

       3. AR::Base#attributes = nil

       4. Getting up-and-running with RSpec

       5. HTML encoding your flash in your controller

       6. System-wide script/console logging

       7. Creating Rake::TestTasks on-the-fly

   12. January

       1. Skinny user activation

       2. Logging Rails activity in script/console

       3. Interviewed on the Rails podcast

       4. Automating new user creation on new slices

       5. Super-simple mocking

4. 2006

   1. December

      1. Environments and the Rails initialisation process

      2. Peek inside the Googleplex

      3. Colour-in your tests

      4. So what is Rails, anyway?

      5. Ruby Mutants

      6. RedBubble: another Aussie startup

      7. WebConserve

      8. Rails Aus Sydney Christmas Bash

      9. Avoid DB calls when setting up your environment

      10. A clean slate, Edge Rails recipe

      11. Ales on Rails Chrissy Meetup

      12. Real world vs the Web 2.0 world

   2. November

      1. Keeping models in subdirectories

      2. instance_eval brings sexy back

      3. UnicodePrimer for Rubyists

      4. RoRA Nov 15 Debrief

      5. SmugMug CEO on serving 100M photos using Amazon S3

      6. Rails generators and TextMate integration

      7. Measure Map vapourware?

      8. Aussie web design hotting up

   3. October

      1. JSON-P at RoRA

      2. Flexible contracting work available

      3. How to output JSON-P with Rails

      4. Disabling Rails sessions for JS and XML output

   4. September

      1. How to use ActiveRecord eager loading to raise your blood pressure

      2. Uncovering bugs with DB unique constraints

      3. Web Connections

      4. Safari, URLs, the semi-colon and one night in Paris

      5. Roll your own dispatch reaper

      6. Resource feeder rocks

      7. Generating cropped thumbnails with acts_as_attachment

      8. Syntactic fantastic

   5. August

      1. Correct HTTP status codes and responses?

      2. Handling 404s in your Rails app

   6. July

      1. Comment spam and my OpenPublish presentation

      2. Securing your production log

      3. Installing and managing edge Rails

      4. AUC Cocoa training course

      5. Using AR::Associations to limit find() scope

   7. June

      1. Streamlined to provide Rails with Django-like features

      2. Montastically free site monitoring

      3. to_proc we go!

      4. DRY your Migrations

      5. South by Inner West

      6. Reset CSS accused of crime: Form control styling

      7. Bureau of Metereology Redesigns

   8. May

      1. Installing Django on OSX

      2. Calling all Aussie web folk: Snow Web 06

      3. Hacking St George Bank

      4. Setting up Capistrano on Segpub

      5. Blogging for Sitepoint

      6. Web Directions site launches

      7. Yellow pants and racks of plastic

      8. toolmantim.com Email Subscriptions

   9. April

      1. S5 on Rails: A simple presentation application

   10. March

       1. The Podcast Pickle

       2. Why the Lucky Stiff!

       3. Javascriptin like a rock star

       4. Mollio: A set of CSS Building Blocks

       5. Rails webDU talk

   11. February

       1. Migrating with Models

       2. Only 7 days left until Sydney Rails Workshop

       3. Abusing err.. Using AR::Associations

       4. Site error notification in Farcry 3

       5. For the love of Gates!

       6. Upgrading your v2 PLPs for Farcry 3

       7. Aussie’s first Rails workshop

       8. Long articles look crap on the homepage

       9. The purpose of a standardised conference powerpoint template

       10. New tech stream

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