Happy 21st Birthday, Ruby!
Ruby wasn't the first development language I fell in love with, and it probably won't be the last, but it's beautiful and fun and it's...
Some useful Bash shortcuts for Ruby on Rails commands
Read an updated article on my Rails shortcuts: Bash shortcuts to run Rails commands through Spring, Bundler, or ye olde scripts Like any developer, I...
Using dig to view, backup and verify DNS zone records on OS X
I was recently asked by a client to consolidate all of their DNS zone records and domain name registrations from 2 separate services to a...
Integration Tests for a Custom PayPal Express Checkout Integration
Paypal Express Checkout is a great way to add or extend the checkout capabilities of an e-commerce store. Most e-commerce software bundles have support for...
Configuring PhoneGap for cross-platform mobile development on Mac OS X Mavericks
One of my professional goals for this year is to publish a mobile app for at least one Panoptic Development client. I've been researching different...
Testing for a redirect using Capybara and Selenium WebDriver
I just spent the better part of 8 hours trying to figure out how to do this. The Selenium WebDriver API docs are pretty bewildering...