binarysoul

I think it is good in scenarios where the problems are sufficiently difficult.

This is simply a skill worth learning if you are not good at it already

Why should I use lotus over Sinatra, Padrino, Grape, Rails, etc?

Thanks for the tip. I didn't know about that utility

maybe smex? http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Smex

What does hexagonal mean?

In many cases it is as easy as relying on a gem instead of doing it yourself. Where the gem contains a c extension. Say resizing images with chunkypng vs mini_magick

It seems to me that being "way faster than rsync" is not worth $49. Also there is no comparison / explanation on the site of how it is faster than rsync.

the problem is also dependencies specified as:

gem 'activesupport', '>= 2.3.5' # too loosely

my experience is that the person on the phone usually doesn't care if you have all the relevant info

cool thanks

I don't see how this could be used for collaborative code editing. Is there an example of this?

some bite sized emacs tips http://rawsyntax.com/blog/categories/learn-emacs/

and a great introduction to setting up emacs http://batsov.com/articles/2012/10/14/emacs-on-osx/

posts on various emacs topics http://www.masteringemacs.org/

can you give an example of how this is really a problem? I have an iPad that can display PDFs. When I scan documents PDFs get created.

chrome

its not difficult to maintain. Emacs in particular has M-x align-regexp = (which does the alignment for you)

when you migrate, you may want to setup jekyll to handle your redirects (from your old site's url structure)

I wrote about a jekyll plugin that allows just that (used it when I migrated away from tumblr)

http://rawsyntax.com/blog/blogging-on-jekyll-url-redirects/

it degrades to select / option boxes. The demo page sucks, but I have used this and it works fine without javascript.

yes this is exactly right, its POST for compatibility reasons, rails puts a special parameter in the form submit to map to PUT (for resourceful routes)

html5boilerplate used to be my goto html / css structure for starting a project. I recently build one using bootstrap 2.0... and it was significantly less hassle, but still looks good and works on desktop and mobile

shouldn't that be #!/usr/bin/env ruby

My problem with sinatra is that I rarely work on a small well defined project. Usually these projects grow beyond their original scope and sinatra is not equipped to deal with that. I don't see the problem with creating a nearly empty rails app.

http://rawsyntax.com/blog/the-problem-with-micro-frameworks/

This looks pretty cool. Tracking all of that stuff is a little messy, I definitely could've used this back when I was on the market.

However, I see this as a cool open source application rather than a for pay service. The problem is that if your service works really well... You're going to eliminate your customers as they get gainfully employed thanks to your site.