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A first look at Coact

Posted in July 2015 

We've started work on the application and I'm really excited to be able to reveal the first look at the new interface for Coact. The screenshots you'll see below are part of the Client areas.

Memoization in Ruby

Posted in July 2015 

Memoization is a technique employed in many languages which allows you to cache the results of slow or expensive operations and return the cached result whenever the method is subsequently...

Local gems for local apps

Posted in July 2015 

If you’re a keen gem developer like myself and you regularly use them in your other applications, you may find it useful to know of this quick tip. It allows...

Auto Permitted Attributes in Rails Forms

Posted in July 2015 

I’m sitting here at PHP South Coast, surrounded by PHP developers and I’m writing some Ruby. I’ve come up with a nice little gem to avoid the extra work involved...

Using UUIDs

Posted in July 2015 

Usually we just use incrementing integers as primary keys on our database objects however in Coact we're using UUIDs instead.

Staytus — an open source status site

Posted in July 2015 

Staytus is another open source project I got off the ground a few months ago. It provides a content management system for managing service statuses for your network or web...

Budgets

Posted in July 2015 

A couple of weekends ago, I found myself needing some sort of application to manage the annual budget for aTech but manage my personal monthly budget. I tried to create...