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Re: Check out my new blog design ‘pivot’

Tim Riley — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 02:01:21 -0000

Hi Steve, here's my thought. Really love your writing, but I think your blog (and perhaps this is a deeper structural issue than just the theme) makes it hard to find your older posts. Right now when I go to the root of your blog, I see your latest article, a list of related articles (which could be quite old), and a link to the previous article. Are the others hidden somewhere? I think exposing this content would be even more valuable as you pick up the pace of the posting in March. Anyway, hope this is useful feedback :)

Re: Useful Rewrites for Nginx

Tim Riley — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 07:17:34 -0000

Great post, thanks Kevin. I agree that the web server is definitely the best place to have these rewrites. However, sometimes access to web server config isn't possible, like when you're deploying to platforms like Heroku. In cases like these, when your app does have to handle the rewrites, it's worth at least using middleware like rack-rewrite to handle it. FYI, I just wrote a blog post about some rack-rewrite techniques that are similar to yours: http://icelab.com.au/articl...

Cheers!

Re: http://blog.railsrumble.com/blog/2010/10/08/intridea-omniauth

Tim Riley — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 20:28:00 -0000

Firstly, Michael: OmniAuth is a great system! Thanks for you work in creating it. We've started to use it with great success for Twitter and Facebook logins in our previous year's Rumble project: Decaf Sucks (http://decafsucks.com/).

I've just extracted how we handle these logins into a Rails 3 engine called OmniSocial: http://github.com/icelab/om... & announced it here: http://icelab.com.au/s/238. OmniSocial provides an OmniAuth configuration for Twitter and Facebook logins (along with the necessary models and controllers for handling these logins and creating users) that works out-of-the-box in Rails 3. This should get you up and going in minimal time, please take a look!

Re: C.Y.L.

Tim Riley — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 20:45:13 -0000

Thanks for posting this! Great song & a nice Sunday night discovery for me. Went and bought their album right away.

Re: Accessing Basecamp's writeboards programatically with Ruby

Tim Riley — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 07:48:08 -0000

Hi Tobin, thanks for getting in touch. Shame you ran into problems on heroku. There's an alternative library that you could try: http://github.com/mhennemey.... I don't believe this calls out to system commands like mine, so you could be in luck.

Re: Cucumber steps for testing page URLs and redirects

Tim Riley — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 18:55:15 -0000

Thanks for the feedback, Dr Nic. I will investigate getting these merged upstream somewhere! Do you have any suggestions for possible improvements in the meantime?

Re: Bamboo Blog - Fixing The Web With Stylish

Tim Riley — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 22:47:29 -0000

This looks useful, thanks for the post. However, I much prefer the experience of browsing in Safari in OS X. Anyone know of a Safari equivalent of this?

Re: Blah Blah Woof Woof » God init script for Debian/Ubuntu systems | Tim Riley

Tim Riley — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 16:26:23 -0000

PJ, your /etc/default/god should look something like this:

GOD_CONFIG=/path/to/your/god/config

That is all you need!

Re: Business Cards and Hacker Groups

Tim Riley — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 21:47:49 -0000

Thanks Pat, I think just including personal details is the way to go. In my case, my employers are not a web dev shop so I don't think they'd have any problems if I were not pimping their business. They also know that I'm already pimping our open position for a 4th Rails dev here in Canberra :)

I think I will also ask for some work business cards for use when I am representing the organisation in meetings with our business partners, etc.

Re: Business Cards and Hacker Groups

Tim Riley — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 21:43:50 -0000

Going recycled and uncoated sounds good, especially given that they would allow business card annotation :) I think moo cards look like a good option, and will definitely choose the recycled paper.

Re: Business Cards and Hacker Groups

Tim Riley — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 21:39:36 -0000

Thanks everyone for your feedback! It's been enlightening to hear your comments. I think at this point I'll definitely go ahead and print up some cards with some basic personal contact details. Will have them on hand at the conference and see how things go!

John Barton also kindly posted a picture of his business cards along with a description of the approach he takes.

Re: Using Compass for CSS in your Sinatra application

Tim Riley — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 03:25:39 -0000

Thanks for the feedback! Glad I could help.

Re: Using Compass for CSS in your Sinatra application

Tim Riley — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 01:59:46 -0000

Thanks Chris! Happy to contribute what I can :)

Re: For the win!

Tim Riley — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 18:51:33 -0000

Hi Marco, glad to hear at least we found the source of the problem. Although it's not optimal, please feel free to sign up with your OpenID (which will log you in immediately). You won't be creating a new account, we'll just be storing some info along will your identity URL.

The login/signup dichotomy is actually something we inherited from a project called 'bort', which is like an app scaffold with logins included. Bort has support for both OpenID logins as well as local accounts. We thought using this as the foundation of our app would save us time, but it didn't in the end, because I had to go rip out all of the non-OpenID stuff.

Anyway, this is why the login/signup thing is still there. We'll be removing it once the competition is over :)

Thanks Marco!

Re: For the win!

Tim Riley — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 17:37:52 -0000

Hey Marco, thanks for giving it a shot. That's weird. I log in using my flickr ID, and I've seen others do it with various custom open IDs.

Have you made sure you click 'sign up' before entering your identity URL for the first time? At what particular point is it failing for you? (Any error messages should appear in the sidebar below the title).

Re: For the win!

Tim Riley — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 20:09:21 -0000

Hi James, thanks for your interest and for signing up! The sea creature theme kind of happened out of the blue. It started when Hugh happened to stumble across a photoshop shapes file full of the things. It started with the crab, just for fun, and then the seals were added at about 3am Monday morning. Strange things can happen in the wee hours of the morning :)

Still, I think it is a fun and colourful look :) Cheers!

Re: Blah Blah Woof Woof » God init script for Debian/Ubuntu systems | Tim Riley

Tim Riley — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 20:53:44 -0000

Well spotted! Thanks Adam, updating the script now.

Re: Blah Blah Woof Woof | Tim Riley

Tim Riley — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 20:52:41 -0000

Snap! That's cool. Where did you go?

I went back in 2006, and didn't spend much time in Beijing, so I didn't see much olympic fanfare. Should definitely be interesting after the games. Hoping at least for a glut of cheap accommodation!

Re: Penguin Classics » Comments

Tim Riley — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 09:27:37 -0000

Thank you, sir.

Re: Blah Blah Woof Woof | Tim Riley

Tim Riley — Sun, 25 May 2008 09:51:01 -0000

First test!