Category: Notes (Page 42 of 50)

Notes on programming-related problems that I’ve encountered while working on various projects.

Assign Users To Groups Using Hominid

May 1, 2012 / Tom / 0 Comments

When it comes to integrating MailChimp into Rails applications, Hominid is my gem of choice. It’s implementation is relatively straightforward and it stays true to the MailChimp API.

I rarely have issues with it, but I recently needed to funnel users into specific groups which were part of a list and hit a bit of snag with the merge vars parameter of the listSubscribe function. Continue reading

Meeting Matt Mullenweg

February 7, 2012 / Tom / 0 Comments

For the past couple of years, I’ve done quite a bit of development on the WordPress Platform. Specifically, I…

Work with a stellar team who builds a number of products for the platform
Blog regularly for Envato
Maintain a premium plugin (with more on the way)
Authored the Widget Boilerplate and the Plugin Boilerplate

This past weekend, my team and I had a chance to hang out at WordCamp Atlanta. Overall, we had a great time – the meetup was especially fun as it was great to chat with a number of different bloggers, developers, designers, and teams that are all active in the WordPress Community. Continue reading

Filtering Custom Controller Actions and Responses in Rails

November 21, 2011 / Tom / 0 Comments

I’ve been finishing up an application that has a number of custom controller actions. All except one action – the approved action – require user authorization before retrieving any information from the database.

Specifically, I wanted to authentication the administrator for all actions except the approved action for both JSON and XML responses (but not HTML responses).

Here’s how to do it in Rails 3:

On Programming and Problem-Solving

November 10, 2011 / Tom / 0 Comments

In my experience, there are two types of developers each of which can be identified based on how they react to any given problem. Continue reading

Reroute Chrome’s alert() Dialog to the Console

September 12, 2011 / Tom / 0 Comments

I spend the majority of my time working in Chrome. Whenever I’m working with a lot of JavaScript, I tend to print information to the console for review.

The thing is, typing alert() is much faster than typing console.log() but alert() is exceptionally more annoying. For those of you that want to save a few keystrokes, copy this simple script into a file and include it before any other JavaScript on your site: