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Re: Rails to_json or as_json?

jjulian — Mon, 09 Jul 2018 22:37:45 -0000

Yes, I approve.

Re: How I sped up our Rails Test Suite by 267%

jjulian — Thu, 27 Nov 2014 15:52:01 -0000

But seriously, great write-up Nick, and great job building a safety-net gem.

Re: How I sped up our Rails Test Suite by 267%

jjulian — Thu, 27 Nov 2014 15:51:08 -0000

This only found one issue in my test suite. I want my money back!

Re: How to get Developers and Designers to go to your Hackathon

jjulian — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 13:07:18 -0000

I can't agree more with you Shawn! It was my first hackathon too, but I wasn't able to fully experience it from the attendee point of view since I was one of the four organizers. I think back to the key tenants of that event: Meet People, Build Stuff, Have Fun. My expectations of every other event are driven by those. We had great people, excellent projects, and we all had a fantastic weekend.

Re: How to get Developers and Designers to go to your Hackathon

jjulian — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 13:02:00 -0000

Ah yes, Groundwork should be on the list. Are there any other events I've missed?

Re: How to get Developers and Designers to go to your Hackathon

jjulian — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 13:01:01 -0000

That's a great point, Kate. Not every event can be inviting to youth (I'm thinking Startup Weekend), but the more exploratory and "fun" events should definitely make children welcome. The kids at ArtBytes seemed to have fun exploring the museum and 3D printing.

Re: Stadium Authority Plans Direction Signs to Bike Parking

jjulian — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 14:32:43 -0000

Signs could be placed along Ostend St (east and west of the stadium for a few blocks), Hamburg St (east and west), and around OPACY on Camden St and near Russel St. I personally would love to see some big huge purple bike racks in the middle of all the concrete surrounding the stadium - a prominent lock-up location would show everyone that biking to these events is safe and encouraged.

Re: Stadium Authority Plans Direction Signs to Bike Parking

jjulian — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 14:23:30 -0000

There are a couple bike racks near the south end of the warehouse, in the plaza where the tickets are sold.

Re: var self = lame

jjulian — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 14:42:26 -0000

I agree with your "suck it up" underscore comment, but those who don't want to add another dependency can use the built-in `bind` function: https://developer.mozilla.o...

Re: MicroGems: five minute RubyGems - Jeff Kreeftmeijer

jjulian — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 13:12:34 -0000

Great micro-post! :) I think "MicroGem" is a great way to describe this gem-in-a-gist, but we've always been able to publish our own gems (public or private) _without_ pushing to RubyGems. Just use the :git option in your Gemfile, as you described, to point to your git project.

Re: Shortmail Introduces “Shortmail Me!”

jjulian — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 10:49:33 -0000

We *are* considering adding a delete feature, it just hasn't yet made it to the top of the priority list.

Send a message to jonathanjulian@shortmail.com with the details of your Sparrow problems - maybe I can help you fix your issues. FWIW, I use Sparrow every day, and love how it works with Shortmail IMAP.

Re: Shortmail Introduces “Shortmail Me!”

jjulian — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 10:44:36 -0000

Not yet. But we're considering how we'd implement the feature - submit your opinion and upvote the feature here: http://getsatisfaction.com/...

Re: Shortmail Introduces “Shortmail Me!”

jjulian — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 11:38:08 -0000

Hey Thomas, we've been working on both features concurrently. We have a sophisticated back-end designed to filter out spam, and we'll soon be rolling out a way to allow users to Flag questionable messages.

Re: CreativeJS Visual Effects

jjulian — Sat, 09 Jul 2011 20:51:08 -0000

Can't wait to download and play with the examples!

Re: Wrapping a div around will_paginate page_entries_info

jjulian — Sat, 11 Jun 2011 15:45:00 -0000

That initializer works for Rails 2.3.x - since you're on Rails 3, try a newer pagination gem: https://github.com/amatsuda...

Re: Why not use bash? - naildrivin5.com

jjulian — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 19:55:40 -0000

There are lots of good answers to this debate on both sides, but I think I agree with yours the most. I've written countless sh, ksh and bash scripts in my career, and the problem for me was always (a) knowing my target shell, and (b) portability. Years ago, I chose ksh to write quite a few (what I thought were) elegant scripts, because ksh had so many more features than sh. But then ksh went out of style and I was stuck. So I learned the hard way to stick with sh - but that's no fun. Ruby puts the "fun" back in - giving me rich tools and syntax, without drifting too far above shell scripting. And keeping it low-level is the key.

Re: Drop Everything and Pay Attention to Firesheep Now

jjulian — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 13:58:50 -0000

Note that this exploit - session cookie hijacking - has been around for years, but has always required a great deal of technical expertise to pull off. Now that FireSheep has put that power into the hands of every 12 year old, the only real solution is the one you mentioned: don't access non-SSL (https) sites on an open network.

In my case, I'm "forgetting" all open networks on my laptop and mobile phone, and hoping for a new feature called "never connect to open networks".

Re: The Mechanics of Web Design

jjulian — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 11:42:24 -0000

I sometimes use "The Non-Designer's Design Book" by Robin Williams to inspire me to remember things like layout, contrast, and typeface choosing. The book is about general graphic design.

But, "The Mechanics of Web Design" that you describe is a more technical topic - and unfortunately, one that I've learned "on the job" as well.

Re: Rails to_json or as_json?

jjulian — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 00:10:19 -0000

As mentioned above, "Watch out for a bug in Rails 3.0". I haven't found it reported yet.

Re: I don’t care about your corporate perks

jjulian — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 17:08:25 -0000

Very well put, Avdi! The big one for me was always "time" - before freelancing, I was never satisfied fulfilling the factory-worker mentality of Monday-Friday core hours. I'm most productive a few hours into my day, so starting at 9am and quitting at 5pm doesn't really make sense. Sometimes I need a morning off; other times, I may work late into the night on an interesting problem. Freelancing (and now my new direct employer) allows me to tick just about all the boxes you've listed above.

Re: Landing a Rails Job with No Experience is just silly talk

jjulian — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 16:45:50 -0000

This is fantastic, Bryan! I hope you help many folks get some Ruby experience and get that new job they want and need!

Oh, by the way - I landed a gig with no Rails experience once. I temporarily lowered my rates to show my desire, and made sure I had high-quality references that had worked with me before. And of course I interviewed to show my enthusiasm to learn something new. So...it can be done.

Re: Five steps to live by Bryan Liles

jjulian — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 18:21:33 -0000

Let me rank these:
(1) Be happy
(2) Have passion
(3) Smell the roses
(4) Get some sleep
(5) Have an enemy (optional for Jonathan)

Re: Rails to_json or as_json?

jjulian — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 17:02:54 -0000

Try @people.first.as_json. The options passed to as_json only take :only and :except.

Re: Rails to_json or as_json?

jjulian — Tue, 18 May 2010 09:35:43 -0000

It doesn't look like Array is properly overridden in ActiveSupport 2.3.5 to pass the 'options' to each element. Try this:

[{"Title" => "title1", "Url" => "url1"}, {"Title" => "title2", "Url" => "url2"}].as_json(:only => "Title")

(which is broken), vs

{"Title" => "title2", "Url" => "url2"}.as_json(:only => "Title")

(which works fine). Please add a comment to ticket 3087!
https://rails.lighthouseapp...

Re: Rails to_json or as_json?

jjulian — Fri, 07 May 2010 10:07:54 -0000

If you are overriding as_json, make sure you are accepting an options hash and passing it along to super.