Blog Posts by "Charlie Maffitt"
The Fix for Snow Leopard Breaking MySQL
Posted on Mar 22, 2010 by Charlie Maffitt |
I just did an upgrade on my work computer from Leopard to Snow Leopard, and for the most part everything went smoothly. The biggest problem I found after the upgrade was that MySQL didn’t work anymore. I did a little searching and found some blogs explaining that there is a symlink which ge...
Tagged: osx, snow leopard, mysql, upgrade
How the Worst Camera on the Market Became the Most Popular Camera on the Web
Posted on Oct 26, 2009 by Charlie Maffitt |
NOTE: This post was originally posted on my work blog at Plexus. This August, Mark Milian of the LA Times reported that Apple’s iPhone had surpassed the Canon Rebel XTi as the most popular camera on Flickr. Let’s distill that down to its essence — the most popular camera on the ...
Tagged: photography, cameras, photo sharing, web, flickr, wifi, connectivity, iphone, canon, nikon
Page Caching with Dynamic Content in Rails
Posted on Jul 1, 2009 by Charlie Maffitt |
I use a lot of page caching to speed up the load time of my Rails apps. I recently ran into a problem, however, where I needed to cache a page which had some dynamic content on it. Specifically, the page in question was a client’s home page: Because it was the most frequently accessed page ...
Tagged: ruby on rails, page caching, dynamic content, ajax, javascript
Form Validation vs. Correction in Rails
Posted on Oct 8, 2008 by Charlie Maffitt |
Developers have a great deal of control over a web user’s experience, and when it comes to validating input forms, opportunities to make things smoother for the user are something every good developer should think about. For example, I am working on a project right now where users can enter...
Tagged: ruby, rails, ruby on rails, validation, correction, forms, user experience