While tinkering recently on a hobby project, I kept having ‘freezing’ issues. Sure I tried to error handle the bah-jeezus out of it in order to fail gracefully instead of forever hanging, but for ...

I'm leaving here a curated compilation of interesting links where you will find information that is not very well known. There are pull requests, issues, commits, examples, posts, videos and more abou...

Ruby has, at its root, an Object. Methods available in Object are available to every class because every class in Ruby inherits from Object somewhere in its own class hierarchy. Of course, you can ove...

A RuPy é uma conferência fortemente dinâmica focada nas tecnologias relacionadas a Ruby, Python e JavaScript. O evento será na cidade de São José dos Campos/SP nos dias 7, 8 e 9 de dezembro. D...

I am working on an open source project called Sinatra Commerce You guessed it from the name, it is a flexible modular e-commerce system built using Sinatra. In this post I share some of my thoughts o...

Everyone who writes code should think about code and everyone who writes code should critique code. Many companies leave it up to a team lead or some manager to review code, but shouldn’t this acti...

We are happy to announce the release of an update to a site for one of my original clients, Rockhampton Psychology Services. The original site was designed a few years ago and looked very much out of ...

Last weekend, I had the privilege to participate in the RailsGirlsDC conference. RailsGirls' mission is to give women tools to build their ideas.

hydra_attribute 0.3.0 preview: I am working on the new version of hydra_attribute gem (0.3.0). It will support the following features: Attribute sets for entities All attributes will be stored in data...

For anyone familiar with a certain little backpack wearing explorer, the layout of this post will seem eerily reminiscent of an episode. Not only because of her favorite tool, the map, but also becaus...

Importance of monitoring Many websites go production with only monitoring online availability, but how many monitor resources, services or application errors, and their trend? Things you should monit...

Below is a 45-minute walk-thru tutorial of creating and deploying a BOSH release for a Redis VM. It introduces a brand new tool: bosh-solo. A BOSH release describes a complete running system from the ...

There were days where JS, CSS and Ruby programmers where each other sat in different tables and in each table we were using different naming convection and it was not a problem Well, times have change...

On 21st of July, I took a part in the lightning.io conference, which took place in Poznań, Poland. The conference itself was quite unusual, because - as its name may suggest - it consisted of lightni...

Hoje apresentei minha palestra “Porque você não deve usar os callbacks do ActiveRecord”, na trilha de Ruby do TDC 2012. Resolvi testar o SpeakerDeck e coloquei os slides lá. Sempre achei a inte...

I come to you as the world’s foremost expert on parenting. To be more specific, I am an expert at parenting my two daughters. There are many lessons you can learn from your own maturing process that...

What exactly is OAuth, and how can you use it to access data on sites like Facebook? This introductory video explains the basic flow behind OAuth 2 and how OAuth Clients are implemented. <iframe w...

I’ve been a bit late in promoting RubyConf Brazil this year, I apologize for that. I’ve released the Call for Papers website a few days ago but I was only able to post about it today. If you want ...

Se você quer lançar uma aplicação Rails rapidamente, não existe melhor solução do que o Heroku. Para quem não conhece, o Heroku é um Paas (Platform as a Service) que roda sobre o Amazon EC2 (...