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.gitignore for iOS, Android and Ruby on Rails

Monday, November 8th, 2010

There’s a lot of junk in these builds that don’t need to go into Github. Or any source control for that matter. This is the master .gitignore that I for Android, iOS and Ruby on Rails development.

It’s also available in my dotfiles Github repository.

I imagine these work for Subversion and Mercurial as well. Let me know if I missed anything.

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Tracking iOS Crash Reports with Hoptoad

Saturday, November 6th, 2010

The folks over at thoughtbot have an great web app called Hoptoad to monitor exceptions. They’ve had support for a bunch of languages (PHP, Python, Ruby, etc) and frameworks (Merb, rails, Sinatra, etc) through their API. Until recently, I had been using a product called CrashBucket from the guys over at GUI Cocoa and Two Guys to track my iOS apps crash reports. Thoughtbot has now partnered with GUI Cocoa and Two Guys to bring the CrashBucket functionality into Hoptoad. The result of this partnership is the Hoptoad iOS Notifier and it was just announced on November 5th on Thoughtbot’s blog.
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GData on Rails on Google AppEngine

Thursday, June 10th, 2010

There’s a great article by Jeff Scudder on Retrieving Authenticated Google Data Feeds with Google App Engine on the Google App Engine Articles site. Jeff’s tutorial utilizes the GDdata (Google Data) Python client library. The aim of this article is to replicate Jeff’s Tutorial using GData on Rails on Google App Engine running on JRuby on Rails.

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JSON with Ruby on Rails on Google AppEngine

Friday, April 23rd, 2010

Getting Started

Here’s a list of what you’ll need to get started with the demo:

  • a Google AppEngine account
  • Ruby 1.8.6
  • Rails 2.3.5
  • Ruby on Rails AppEngine Gem

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Lessons Learned: Planning for a Successful Talk

Thursday, March 25th, 2010

On March 20th, I had the privilege of being a speaker at Unconferenz. I also ended up hosting a couple of other talks throughout the day as well. I presented on the topic of Designing iPhone/iPad Apps and 3rd Party SDKs. The slides are available here.

I learned quite a few lessons as a speaker about giving a better talk.

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