http://www.devtaxi.com Destination: your objectives! Tue, 26 Jul 2011 14:31:59 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Over the week-end I upgraded my Macbook Pro to OS X Lion. Great. Although I'm still debating whether I'll get used to the "natural scrolling", which doesn't feel natural to me at all, the upgrade went almost flawless. I had to update Virtual Box (I should have done this way ... http://www.devtaxi.com/2011/07/26/fix-os-x-lion-problem-with-hosts-file/ I've spent a few days figuring out the proper configuration needed to deploy a rails app to both staging and production servers. It was time consuming as I don't have a lot of experience with rails deployment. Like most rails developers I know, we mostly code and type heroku deploy. ... http://www.devtaxi.com/2011/05/21/deploy-rails-3-app-to-staging-and-production/ I've been screaming left and right for the past months that the Social Commerce revolution is on its way. Now that we've entered Q4, it looks like the industry is finally validating my statements. Long gone the "web 2.0" era... Right? We don't see it anymore. It's all about social ... http://www.devtaxi.com/2010/10/22/social-shopping-will-grow-10-to-25-times-in-the-next-5-years/ I recently started a web app project with a great team. It's built on the excellent rails framework. I say excellent because I'm discovering it and really enjoying it. You will see a few posts about my discovery. To add a placeholder value on an input in an HTML5 form, simply ... http://www.devtaxi.com/2010/10/05/how-to-use-html5-placeholder-with-ror/ For those who know me a bit, I tend to come up with crazy (new) product ideas every now and then. As I'm not able to either fund, manage, sell or develop 2% of them, I decided to start posting them on my blog. Everybody is free to grab the ... http://www.devtaxi.com/2009/09/04/product-idea-download-the-billboard-automatically/ A few quotes from these interesting notes taken by Evelyn Rodriguez at a presentation given on Jan 8, 2003 to Silicon Valley Product Management Association by Google Product Manager Marissa Mayer : Generate and capitalize on network effects Small, agile engineering teams User centered designs Product discussion meeting - like a brainstorming session - every ... http://www.devtaxi.com/2009/09/03/9-product-management-quotes/ Ok, this is my most stupid post, but I had fun, really! I just upgraded to Snow Leopard. I use the Dashbaord and Desktop shortcuts in Exposé, they are configured to be triggered by the side buttons on my mouse. I just found out that pressing Shift at the same time ... http://www.devtaxi.com/2009/09/02/snow-leopard-window-dance-with-expose/ I'm currently studying how to categorize UGC (user generated content) on social networks. One of my main issue is not choosing or creating the categories, but rather making sure authors will a) use the categories and b) find the right one easily. I have not taken any final decision yet, ... http://www.devtaxi.com/2009/08/12/ehowcom-how-to-not-know-how-to-categorize/ This simple Javascript snippet will bind the focus event to any element that has a "clearSearch" css class. On focus, the field is emptied if it is the default value. On blur, it will put back the default value if nothing was entered. Very simple and unobtrusive. You can use ... http://www.devtaxi.com/2009/04/23/automatically-empty-a-search-box-on-focus-with-jquery/ After my post on the Prototype Cheat Sheet, here is one for jQuery: jQuery Cheat Sheet. We have shifted to jQuery in our framework and enjoy it a lot lately. http://www.devtaxi.com/2009/04/22/jquery-cheat-sheet/