Disqus - Friends of currane

Re: Peel me a Grape :: We make things work

darraghcurran — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 04:20:19 -0000

lol - you sure did - better get myself an abacus.

Re: Peel me a Grape :: We make things work

darraghcurran — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 11:32:07 -0000

Cheers Jerry.

Re: Tuesday Push - 1time time tracking - Peel me a Grape :: We make things work

darraghcurran — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 04:19:57 -0000

Cheers, I like it too!

Re: Tuesday Push - 1time time tracking - Peel me a Grape :: We make things work

darraghcurran — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 07:53:42 -0000

rescue time looks good - i'd probably use that myself - but it is aimed slightly differently to 1time - 1time is more about tracking time for invoicing. There's also a few that work over im - like http://www.rallyclock.com/.

Re: Collabnet fail irony - Peel me a Grape :: We make things work

darraghcurran — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 15:57:04 -0000

Thanks C. Michael, your comment does clarify for me a little bit about
CollabNet's role in subversion project. I appreciate that you guys do
great things for the project - thanks for that. I like subversion.

My post was merely an observation about how it's become harder to
download windows binary subversion client. I know open != anonymous -
however - when it comes to downloading a build of an open source
project - having to register to a commercial website to download - is
not in the spirit of openness.

Don't you think it should be easier for people to use the
latest/greatest build?

Darragh

Re: time_ago_in_words javascript part 1 - Peel me a Grape :: We make things work

darraghcurran — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 06:39:35 -0000

Nice. 99designs rocks by the way. it's a great resource for the community.

Re: Collabnet fail irony - Peel me a Grape :: We make things work

darraghcurran — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 16:22:05 -0000

Cool - I guess I over reacted slightly ;) I noticed the download page
had changed - overall it's clearer now. It seems like Collabnet
provide the only build of the latest release (at least from the links
I can see) which is a good service.

What got me is that I felt it was unnecessary to have to register and
login to download the binary. Take Eclipse for example, I search for
'eclipse download' and I'm 3 clicks away from downloading a build for
any platform.

In the grand scheme of things - it's not a big deal - it's not that
often that one has to download a new release, and in between releases
you get months of use out with a great tool.

I think I could have made my point a little clearer originally,
apologies for causing any insult or annoyance.

Cheers,
Darragh

Re: hosting365 follow trends... in the wrong direction - Peel me a Grape :: We make things work

darraghcurran — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 16:38:05 -0000

Thanks for answering back - you've been very informative. Hosting 365
are still cheaper than any Irish competitors that I know of. I imagine
that per server, collocation must have one of the tightest margins of
all your business. I did have a look at your cloud platform options -
http://www.hosting365.com/h..., it's great to see
you offering a service like this. It's nice when practical to be able
to host stuff in Ireland, and deal with friendly local sales, and
support.

Do you predict the cost of your cloud platform to drop as you become
more established in that space?

Cheers,
Darragh

Re: hosting365 follow trends... in the wrong direction - Peel me a Grape :: We make things work

darraghcurran — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 06:50:05 -0000

Sounds like interesting times for you. Perhaps you guys could write
something on your blog about the cool stuff you're doing with your
cloud platform? I'd certainly look forward to reading it.
Darragh

Re: hosting365 follow trends... in the wrong direction - Peel me a Grape :: We make things work

darraghcurran — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 07:29:18 -0000

cool - thanks for those links,

Re: http://blog.peelmeagrape.net/2008/8/14/pre-generating-rails-404-and-500-pages-using-layouts-and-rake

darraghcurran — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 04:26:08 -0000

Cheers Mark, nuts that the easiest way seems to be using integration
test stuff, anyways thanks for original tip.

Re: Google javascript api location information - Peel me a Grape :: We make things work

darraghcurran — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:09:08 -0000

Nice! Thanks for the link - that's very useful to know about. I'd been using something similar to WIP-Base http://www.wipmania.com/en/... to determine location based on request ip address on the server side.

Re: Careful who you send mail to from staging environment - Peel me a Grape :: We make things work

darraghcurran — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 09:44:05 -0000

Glad you like it.
I've created a small patch to make this even easier.
http://rails.lighthouseapp....

allowing you to do this in your staging.rb for example.

ActionMailer::Base.perform_deliveries = lambda {|mail| mail.header['to'].to_s =~ /@example.com$/}

Re: Careful who you send mail to from staging environment - Peel me a Grape :: We make things work

darraghcurran — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 04:26:59 -0000

Mike Mangino pointed me to another approach:

http://www.elevatedrails.co...

Add a new delivery method - where you have full control to modify and decide whether to send an email. Nice! Thanks Mike.

Re: URL Shortener Etiquette - Peel me a Grape :: We make things work

darraghcurran — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 09:04:11 -0000

Good point - some of the shortener services allow custom aliases. Your example gives a meaningful url, without need for describing the link separately.

Re: Peel me a Grape :: We make things work

darraghcurran — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:07:39 -0000

Hey Lucy - I'm not into that kind of thing. Your class mates seem better than you at attacking moves - try and make yourself less attackable. You should be able to stop them executing code on your machine remotely. Don't log onto messenger during class!

Re: Long Urls please

darraghcurran — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 12:59:53 -0000

Thanks for the link Aidan. I'd love to hear if you've any ideas on how to make it even better.
Cheers,
Darragh

Re: URL Shortener Etiquette - Peel me a Grape :: We make things work

darraghcurran — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 13:08:29 -0000

Aidan Finn (http://aidanf.disqus.com) has also written about how tiny urls bug him http://www.aidanf.net/blog/... and about how a service I just released can help fight back. http://www.aidanf.net/posts...

Re: Long Urls please

darraghcurran — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 07:06:34 -0000

Thanks Aidan, I'll consider putting together a blog to announce updates etc. For the moment I'll make announcements on twitter - http://twitter.com/longurlp... (low volume)

Re: Peel me a Grape :: We make things work

darraghcurran — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 07:15:03 -0000

Does this work?

grails install-plugin http://blog.peelmeagrape.ne...

http://docs.huihoo.com/grai...

Re: Long Urls please

darraghcurran — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 06:13:10 -0000

Hey Aidan,
I've set up a blog (http://longurlplease.blogsp..., moved the add-on to mozilla add-on site (https://addons.mozilla.org/... and added a bookmarklet so that users of any browsers can benefit from longurlplease.
Perhaps you'd like to do a guest post to the blog (something along the lines of your misusing-tinyurls post)?

Cheers,
Darragh

Re: Long URL Please, Ajaxian Thank You! - Peel me a Grape :: We make things work

darraghcurran — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 21:32:41 -0000

Thanks Tamas - I hope it's useful for you. Happy New Year to you too!
Darragh

Re: Using longurlplease with flXHR

darraghcurran — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 20:16:34 -0000

Nice one - I just made that change.
Cheers for pointing it out,
Darragh

Re: How's longurlplease doing so far?

darraghcurran — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 13:19:17 -0000

Tav, Michael - thanks a million for getting in touch. Sorry for not getting back sooner - I was away on holidays.
It's great to hear you want to use the service - fire ahead!
Get in touch if you've any problems or ideas/suggestions to improve it.
Cheers,
Darragh

Re: URL Shortener Etiquette - Peel me a Grape :: We make things work

darraghcurran — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 13:56:38 -0000

Another unfortunate thing I'm starting to see is URL shortener services that instead of just redirecting you to the target - bring you to an intermediate page - so you can look at the long url before you visit it - or wrap your target page in an iframe so they can show you some ads.

If I don't trust you I wont click your links, and if I do trust you but you link me to ads you'll erode that trust - both are no nos in my book.