May 7
Rails Gotcha #9: Disabled Sessions
I was recently working on a Rails application where sessions were disabled in the application controller (affecting all other controllers), and needed to be turned back on in certain other controllers. Basically, sessions were only needed on the admin controllers.
While testing this application I ran into a few surprises, leading to this 2 in 1 Rails Gotcha, and two patches to Rails edge.
May 6
Announcing the DevFi Podcast
I alluded to this in my last post, but now it's time to make it official. Say hello to the DevFi Podcast.
Chris Shea and I have been working on this for about a month now, and we're pretty excited to release the first episode, a discussion about building software vs. buying vs. forking, and an interesting interview with Dan Berger, the long-time Ruby developer and contributor who forked the interpreter.
May 5
New Site, New Feeds
This is a mixed announcement, warning, and an apology. In just a bit here I'll be launching a complete redesign for pmade.com. With the new site comes a new set of news feeds. I'll be redirecting the old news feeds to the new ones, which hopefully won't break.
Best case, you're going to have a bunch of articles from pmade.com show up as unread, sorry about that. Worst-case you'll have to come to the site and subscribe to the new feeds. But hey, you'll see the new content!