Rob Walling wrote a great post yesterday
about building up your bootstrapped business over time by taking on
smaller projects before diving into big ones. His post reminded me of
Amy Hoy’s Stacking the Bricks philosophy, and I
think that taking the approach of learning to walk before learning to
run makes sense. Rob’s post made me reflect on my experience building
products that have gone from producing no income, to putting some change
in my pocket, to providing a nice income for my family, and I thought it
would be fun to share.
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18 Apr 2014
At Honeybadger we use Help Scout
to manage our customer support, and
that has worked out well for us. One thing I’ve wanted for quite a
while is more integration between Help Scout, our internal dashboard,
and the Stripe dashboard. After taking a mini-vacation to attend
MicroConf this week, I decided it was time to make my dreams come true.
:)
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28 Feb 2014
If you want to have a Postgres column (aside from created_at) that you want to be populated with the current date if no other date is specified, you may be tempted to create a migration like this:
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03 Dec 2013
I’m currently working on a client project where site adminstrators use
the same UI that site users do, so there are permissions checks in the
views and controllers to ensure the current user has the right to do or
see certain things. CanCan provides the access control, which takes
care of most of the issues with a simple can? check or
load_and_authorize_resource.
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10 Aug 2013
I had a bit of an adventure this morning getting Ruby 2.0 installed on
my mac with Mountain Lion, so I thought I’d share the tale with you in
case it can help save you some time on doing the same. Up until now
I’ve been developing my Rails apps with 1.9.3, but it was time to
upgrade and experience all the new hotness of the latest Ruby. I had
tried to install Ruby 2.0 before, but I had been stymied by an openssl
error when building. Today was to day to get that sorted.
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