Originally this blog started out as a fairly personal journal, but has recently adopted a more technology-oriented theme. I plan to focus even more on technology blogging in the future, but I also want to occasionally blog about personal happenings, so I’ve decided to split my blog in two.
This site, mfischer.com, will return to its [...]

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Now that I’ve been using Rails for a while, I’ve accumulated a few gems and plugins that I end up using over and over, so I thought I’d share a little about each.
haml and sass
I was sold on Sass from the first few minutes I used it. Sass lets you write CSS using a [...]

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For a project I’m currently working on, I needed a way to upload several photos to attach to a “dog” model, and allow easy cropping of the photos. In Ruby on Rails, this turned out to be harder than I expected.
The main problems I encountered were:

There are several attachment uploading plug-ins for Rails, like [...]

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I’ve been working on a Ruby on Rails web application to track and compare Xbox player scores and achievements—a direct ripoff of a similar Perl/Mason app that Ty wrote. I recently discovered that the web site started getting very slow to respond, and Ruby was using up lots of memory.
I did a fair bit [...]

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It’s been quite a while since I’ve written anything here. It’s not that I’ve stopped being social online; rather I’ve been using Twitter so much that writing a full-on blog post has seemed both time-consuming and unnecessary.
So what’s been going on? Three things mostly: work, xbox gaming, and Ruby on Rails programming. [...]

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