Rails
Rails Fails To Update Serialized Columns On Save
One of the problems I hit earlier today, which literally cost 2.5 hours to resolve, was that I have a Rails model which uses a serialized column in it. The column contains a hash of options for the object. Fairly simple stuff.
As it turns out, after overwriting one of the parameters in the hash and saving [...]
Brilliant Bit of Javascript for Redirecting Downloaders
One of my uISV buddies, Ethan (king of language learning software), took me to task earlier today for spending so much time optimizing my download page when I could just eliminate it entirely and link the download direct to the download button in most cases. I had always had these issues with that solution:
My users don’t [...]
Because You Can’t Quite Get Enough Transparency…
I really wanted to post how Daily Bingo Cards was doing statswise today, but probably will not have the time. (The short version: the snowflake queries are loving me and owning a top 10 spot on every possible variation of “thanksgiving bingo cards” is worth 1.5X owning the 11th spot on [thanksgiving bingo cards] itself. [...]
Rails SEO Tips 90% Completed
Too many projects, too little time. I got most of my Rails SEO hints page completed tonight, after finally implementing more of the suggestions I was making in Daily Bingo Cards itself.
The Table of Contents
The Case Study: Daily Bingo Cards
On-page Optimization
Sexy URLs, or, Default Routes Considered Harmful
Taming Your Title Tags (And Other Metadata)
Don’t Repeat Yourself… In Your Content
Sitemaps — Because XML Doesn’t Have [...]
SEO Tips for Ruby on Rails
I’m working on this article as another bit of linkbait, and its about 33% of the way finished at the moment, but I thought I would give you guys a sneak peek. If you have any comments, please, feel free. If you want to blog or otherwise link to it, go right ahead, although it [...]
Marketing A Superhero Novel (Web Admin Hackery Galore)
Around the same time I started Bingo Card Creator, my little brother got bitten by the Do A Cool Project bug and decided to become a published fiction author. He is writing a superhero novel and, aside from this post being a totally transparent attempt to give him some SEO juice to get him kicking, I’d [...]
Spending Money, Incurring Headaches
Kalzumeus is getting to the point where I want to start periodic deployments to the Internets to test it (yes, yes, that DOES mean I’ll be able to announce it publicly, sometime this month if development doesn’t hit snags), so I went shopping for a hosting service. I eventually settled on TextDrive, which appears to [...]
Getting Somewhere On Kalzumeus
I finally got some time today to sit down and have a coding session. The program can’t be more than, oh, 5% of the way ready yet, but I’m feeling that I’m starting to get my head around most of the core Rails concepts. Much more code is actually sticking to the screen and its [...]
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