Rich Manalang
About: Oracle Web 2.0 lab dude. Ruby/JRuby on Rails app dev ninja. Responsible for mix.oracle.com. My boys and I blog at http://oracleappslab.com. Find me on FriendFeed (http://friendfeed.com/manalang)
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De-Friend Sounds Better than Remove
--Photo by signalstation used under Creative Commons Mashable had a highly entertaining post earlier in the week called “12 Great Tales of De-F...
Thanks
--It’s Thanksgiving here in the States. So, if you’re celebrating, have a good one. If you’re not, be glad we’re not at work ...
Do You Have Cyberchondria?
--Photo by Julie70 used under Creative Commons Do you, or someone you love, suffer from that rare form of prostate cancer that only affects women? Or...
All a Twitter
--Hot on the heals of news that Facebook and Twitter couldn’t agree on an acquisition deal, news broke yesterday that Twitter had purchased Val...
I Still Heart Data Visualizations
--If you haven’t seen this already, it’s worth a look. If you have, it’s worth another look. Thanks to Mashable for the YouTube ver...
An iPhone App Your Holiday Shopping and Wishlist
--Last week, I found a perfect iPhone app for the year-end holidays, thanks to Paul’s Google Reader Shared Items feed. SnapTell Explorer (by wa...
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“Looks Good, Works Well”
[cross posted from http://theappslab.com/2008/11/19/looks-good-works-well/] Last night, I was lucky enough to see Bill Scott (of Yahoo Design Pattern Library, YUI, OpenRico, Netflix fame) present at my local Ruby user group. He shared his thoughts about the successful design patterns that have defined today’s web. As someone who enjoys brilliantly designed “things” including web apps [...]
Multi-Model Solr Search in Rails
A few of the JRuby on Rails apps I run use acts_as_solr. Turns out that the prefered search solutions in Rails today are Thinking Sphinx and Xapian, neither of which I’ve ever tried before… maybe on my next project. Anyway, acts_as_solr is pretty useable, however, I’ve always been stumped with how to perform queries across [...]
Rails: Excluding plugins from loading
I’m doing some refactoring of one of our Rails apps and saw something like this: if RAILS_ENV == 'test' config.load_paths << "#{RAILS_ROOT}/vendor/mocha-0.5.4/lib" config.load_paths << "#{RAILS_ROOT}/vendor/dust-0.1.4/lib" config.load_paths << "#{RAILS_ROOT}/vendor/unit_record-0.3.0/lib" config.plugins = Dir[ "#{RAILS_ROOT}/vendor/plugins/*" ].map { |p| File.basename p [...]
Job scheduling with JRuby and Rails
Job scheduling with JRuby and Rails. For the past year, I’ve looked at several background schedulers for JRuby on Rails apps (Bj, BackgroundRB, Rufus Scheduler, etc.) and have come up with solutions that have been sub-optimal. Looks like I missed this post from Jens Krämer running down some other options including using the popular Quartz [...]
Twine: “We Organize That Shit.”
Twine: “We Organize That Shit.” “You use Twine to collect, find some shit, and share that shit with people you know. Twine ties it all together by topic, so you can have that shit in one place and it is easy for you to find it. You know what I’m sayin’?”
Jason Fried’s talk at the Business of Software conference (September 2008) - (37signals)
Jason Fried’s talk at the Business of Software conference (September 2008) - (37signals). Excellent talk about how to build apps, a strong brand, and a good company from Jason Fried at 37Signals.
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