24th May 2009 - Ch..ch..ch..changes
Now that I've got Uni out of the way and I've had a few weeks to settle my brain, I need to make some changes to my blog.
The first change is simply to truncate the blog index (there's just too much text on the screen to make it easy to scroll through the blogs) and update the About Me section at the side, both of which I've done.
Next up I plan on tidying the place up and archiving the ... [more]
5th May 2009 - Community Spirit
Well it's been a while since my last post! I've been distracted for the last month or so getting my uni project finished and I'm now up to my eyes getting my final year exams out of the way. As soon as I get finished at Uni I'm going to spend some time getting the blog etc. back in shape. Until then, there will probably be very few new posts (if any).
Anyway, blah blah blah! The reason I'm breaking away ... [more]
9th Mar 2009 - Get thee behind me fixtures!
I've been hearing a lot of bad things recently about fixtures but it wasn't until a couple of days ago that I started hitting that particular wall myself. In the app that I'm creating for my honours project I need to have some standard data set up at the start. So I set up some fixtures and run a rake db:fixtures:load everytime I migrate. So far so very lazy. Before you start throwing rocks and chasing me with pitchforks though (assuming ... [more]