Author Archives: Bill Burcham
Eastern US is Fertile Ground for Ruby Development
As I was perusing jobs on Rubynow I thought I was seeing a concentration of jobs in Florida, New England, and the Washington DC area. To test the idea a little, I decided to throw a sampling of the recent … Continue reading
Ive on Focus Groups
I was going to tell you about Jonathan Ive’s recent pithy pronouncement on focus groups to wit: “We don’t do focus groups,” he said firmly, explaining that they resulted in bland products designed not to offend anyone. But I won’t … Continue reading
OOCSS + SASS = Fewer Classes On Your Elements
update 3/29/2009 8:23 AM: Turns out Chris Eppstein is way ahead of me. Check out Compass. It’s a project that delivers your favorite CSS frameworks as SASS mix-ins. Oh and also it integrated with your favorite Ruby web development framework. Stubbornella … Continue reading
Design Hope
Veerle is one of my favorite Web designers. She came clean recently and republished her first website circa 1996! She cited Jason Santamaria’s recent post about his own earliest Web work. OK so now I have another new favorite Web … Continue reading
Secular Manger
My daughter Mia just gave me the best Christmas present ever!
Promiscuous Power
I was the beneficiary of a new social norm at iPhone Tech Talk here in Seattle today. Unsurprisingly just about everybody’s got an Apple laptop and power outlets are scarce. What’s interesting is that since all our power connectors are … Continue reading
wordpress.com Migration Hang-up: OpenID Delegation
The first issue I’ve run into with my migration from wordpress.org (self-hosted) to wordpress.com is that I see no way to insert OpenID delegation links into my template.
Home Again
Wherein Bill recovers his domain and says bye-bye to manual WordPress upgrades. Continue reading
Are Ruby Session ID’s Secure?
The question of the security of cookie-based session storage in Rails has pretty much been settled it seems to me. Out of the box, Rails uses cookie-based session storage. When you generate a new Rails app you get a nice … Continue reading
Thought Propulsion™ is Go For Burn
The Thought Propulsion™ corporate site is up and running. For the technically inclined, here are some interesting facts: hosted on Amazon EC2 using the extremely slick EC2 On Rails Ubuntu/Ruby on Rails virtual appliance there’s a tasty microformatted hcard on … Continue reading
