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Balancing Image Speed and Quality with imgix
June 18, 2024 - Properly sized and optimized images aren't just important, they're vital. They are the cornerstone of a successful online presence, directly influencing search engine ranking.
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Handling Spelling Mistakes with Postgres Full Text Search
June 25, 2024 - Handling misspelled search terms with Postgres Full Text Search and PgSearch can be tricky, depending on how your site is set up. Keep reading to find out a way to work around misspellings while using PgSearch's multisearch in a performant way!
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Where Were You? How AI and Human Instinct Built Wereabouts at Pointless Palooza 2026
March 10, 2026 - We had 12 hours, a werewolf mascot, and a wild idea. AI helped us move fast. Humans kept us from getting lost.
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Blocking Spam in Rails Applications
November 1, 2006 - Whenever you accept user-generated content, you run the risk of opening your system up to spammers. This is most well-known as a problem for blogs that allow comments; but, every relatively open site faces this challenge. There are many potential solutions to this problem -- you…
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DC’s Startup Weekend This Weekend
October 24, 2007 - In early July, about 70 people got together to try to launch a web business in one weekend. VoSnap didn't launch on time, but those involved deemed Startup Weekend a big success, so Andrew Hyde decided to take the show on the road. I was fortunate to meet Andrew in Colorado and…
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All New Viget.com and Blogging Strategy
March 6, 2008 - We last redesigned viget.com almost two years ago. As part of that effort, we launched the FourLabs blog, dedicated to sharing "insights and commentary reflecting the four key aspects of our work: strategic consulting, interactive design, application development, and online…
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Testing for HTML Tags in Rails Plugins
June 4, 2008 - When creating Rails plugins that add ActionView helpers, we often test to ensure they produce specific tags with specific attributes. When testing this type of assertion within controller tests, we have the very useful assert_tag and assert_select; but in plugin tests and…
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Introducing ActsAsMarkup: A Markdown, Textile, Wikitext, and RDoc Plugin for ActiveRecord
August 12, 2008 - On a project I’ve been working on recently, I wanted to be able to enter in Markdown text to a field and convert it into HTML in a view. Having read about BlueCloth’s performance problems though, I didn’t want to use the built in markdown helper in ActionView.…
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Multi-line Memoization
January 5, 2009 - Here’s a quick tip that came out of a code review we did last week. One easy way to add caching to your Ruby app is to memoize the results of computationally expensive methods: def foo @foo ||= expensive_method end The first time the method is called, @foo will be nil, so…
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A Gaggle Of Git Tips
January 11, 2009 - Almost a year ago, our first post about Git hit this blog. Since then, our posts about Git have been popular with you, our readers. Clinton’s overview of git-svn, for example, remains one of our most popular posts, months after he first wrote it. Like much of the Ruby and…
