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I had lots of WiFi issues until I turned off bluetooth. Give it a go!

There's nothing stopping you from creating extra folders under /app to contain various types of service objects. Personally I have: /app/factories - for classes which create active…

You say: "Hey that must suck, is there anything I can do to help?" or if you genuinely can't figure it out ask a question about the bit you don't understand: "Let me get this right…

Ignorance my be applied equally but thanks to privilege as a male you can afford to ignore or dismiss those ignorant comments in a way that a person with less privilege may not be …

And this common refrain is the shrill cry of someone who hasn't had to manage a Ruby on Rails application. Application libraries are the domain of the developer, not operations. Yo…

Generally a weasel apology would be: "I'm sorry If I made someone feel bad" Not "I am sorry. I feel terrible that I made someone else feel terrible." Corey's apology did feel nicer…

Why are you thinking about this when you're not even sure that your app will need to run on multiple EC2 regions? This smells like premature optimisation to me.

No, it isn't bad advice just overly simplified and generalised. The vast majority of companies won't need to face scaling or big data issues, they're too busy going after that next…

I wrote a slightly different article: http://bottledup.net/2013/01/10/bundler-and-gemfile/ It focuses on Bundler and your Gemfiles so that people understand not only how to update …

Actually it depends on what your Gemfile looks like. If you've specified the exact version in your Gemfile you'll need to edit it before running `bundle update rails`. This means y…

If you're running a relatively new version of Rails (hopefully 3.2.10) you can just goto your app on your dev machine and type: bundle update rails Then commit and deploy in the us…

If you have an invite you're able to play in Australia. I don't own an Android but a couple of my friends are playing already. There was an article in the Sydney Morning Herald abo…

One of the biggest reasons to switch is that Slim supports streaming and Haml doesn't, or at least won't until the next major version. Sources: https://github.com/stonean/slim#slim…

There's a pretty nice transport app called TripView that replaces the horrible cityrail.info and sydneybuses.info timetabling information. Available on Android and iPhone it's pret…

He presented at the recent SydStart event/convention here in Sydney. The crowd was largely skeptical of him and his patents, and he had to cajole the audience into agreeing with hi…

Part of Rails 4.0 will be further pushing the "Russian Doll" caching that 37signals/DHH talks about here: http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3112-how-basecamp-next-got-to... One of the…

At Airtasker (an Australian competitor) we take the approach that it'ds an open marketplace and both sides need to confirm that the task is complete before money exchanges hands. W…

I'd say that it's better to start off with installing vundle ( https://github.com/gmarik/vundle/ ) and then whenever you feel like you're having problems doing something like file/…

In slight defense of that horrible password practice: You can't really do much with a realestate.com.au account unless you are an Agent (which is a separate account). There's no pa…

From which ISP? The quality fluctuates wildly. If its $60 unlimited from a good ISP like iinet then it's a good deal, if it's with TPG or Dodo then it's not worth the hassle.

This doesn't stop lots of people getting some really cool stuff done. Everyone who has completed something cool presents on the Sunday evening and it's awesome. Generally it's a re…

I read that point more as: "You end up being like the people you hang out with". So if you want to be a successful programmer, hang out with other successful programmers. If you wa…

This is measurably untrue. In Australia, for example, the level of playback, or time-shift, viewing is a very low, but increasing, percentage of total TV. Here in Australia we meas…

In chrome you can easily view the current source by opening the elements section of Developer Tools.