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Re:Show HN: Kerstman, a secret santa app built using rails on Tuesday December 09, 2014 @05:52AM (#8722097)
There's a test version online at the moment here - https://kerstman.herokuapp.com/

While it asks for a signup it's just looking for a valid unique email so you can use pretty much anything. The matching stage is the only point where emails are actually dispatched

Show HN: Kerstman, a secret santa app built using rails

This is now the second secret santa matching app I've built to fill a problem I've had with many groups over the years. Loads of secret santas I've organised or been involved with have had couples who you don't really want to end up matched. As a result I've built a web app that allows you to specify a partner who you don't want that person to be giving to.There's a few bugs wherein it won't...

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Re:Our Development Workflow on Friday November 07, 2014 @03:46AM (#8571681)
In theory yes, a feature that requires more work shouldn’t make it’s way into dev really.
Re:Ask HN: Private Git repo hosting? on Sunday October 05, 2014 @09:01AM (#8412179)
I used to use github but I’ve moved towards gitlab in the past while as my need for private repos dropped in scale
Re:Show HN: Rails based Asset Manager for business environments on Thursday September 12, 2013 @12:34AM (#6372073)
I'll add some information on the homepage. I made sure I was clear to release this before I left the company I made it at
Re:Show HN: Rails based Asset Manager for business environments on Wednesday September 11, 2013 @04:51PM (#6370009)
Should have said while it does ask for an email during signup it doesn't require any activation and will work so long as the email address is in a valid format

Show HN: Rails based Asset Manager for business environments

I started work on this Asset Manager as my first ever Ruby on Rails project at my first job. I've spent the past couple of months refining it and making it business agnostic and now it's ready to show off fully. Happy to take advice and answer questions.Demo environment http://ryanmacg.com/Source code https://github.com/RyanMacG/Asset-Manager

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Gotcha, there's also some information on migrating to paperclip[1] which might suit and I'm sure someone will have done similar for CarrierWave. Of course none of that helps with being short staffed.

[1]https://gist.github.com/serek/375203

I might be wrong but would the trick maybe be to break it down bit by bit, so for instance break off your existing file upload stuff and replace it with CarrierWave or something different. I don't know what your codebase is like but doing it that way should in theory make it more copable to slowly tick it up to rails 3+
Looks cool, I grabbed AKMYPYNNRPP9

Thanks!

Re:Shame.css on Thursday April 25, 2013 @04:14AM (#5606172)
I was trying to think of the last time I had to use !important or similar and sure enough it's in my IE specific stylesheet
Yeah, I've kept a close eye on this since I own an S3 and run CM and he's definitely still working on it from what I've seen. That might be related to Samsung saying they'd be more open going forward though
It's extra bizarre when you consider that Daniel still seems to be (based on his G+) developing for the S3
Re:Microsoft is developing a Google Glass competitor on Thursday November 22, 2012 @08:49AM (#4818712)
It looks like this was submitted (May 2011) before Google announced Project Glass (Apr 2012)
Re:Configuring Sublime Text 2 on Friday November 16, 2012 @05:30PM (#4796217)
Sublime has both cmd-t and cmd-p in the OS X version, the general thinking for this seems to be related to other editors (such as Textmate) having used cmd-t. By having this in Sublime by default switching becomes easier.
See this commit https://android.googlesource.com/platform/packages/apps/Cont...

it was an issue in any Android variant that featured autodial, I saw someone reporting it worked on CyanogenMod 7 for example and it also worked on some HTC devices

The article is kind of misleading, the exploit was part of Android rather than anything to do with Samsung and was patched in AOSP as of 4.1.1(?). This meansn it was an issue on any phone that dialled automatically and doesn't run a build with the patch applied. Also the patch from Samsung was part of an OTA update from at least a week ago in the US, I know it pinged up just after I booted the S3 I bought on Saturday in the UK.
Re:IPhone 5 Price Breakdown (UK Only) on Sunday September 16, 2012 @05:11AM (#4528735)
3000 texts is the fair usage cap on texts with most UK networks
Re:EE to launch 4G mobile services in 16 UK cities in 2012 on Tuesday September 11, 2012 @10:04AM (#4505447)
I'm sure they'd love to get 4G launched but they're all being held up by the fact that OFCOM haven't had the spectrum auction yet
Unfortunately it's Windows only which doesn't fix the issue of Twitter for Mac being put out to pasture. It is a great twitter app if you ever use Windows though
Re:Mojang, makers of Minecraft, sued by patent troll on Saturday July 21, 2012 @05:32AM (#4274408)
For further info on the patent in question http://news.priorsmart.com/uniloc-v-mojang-ab-l6rh/#pat-6857...
Re:Poll: Do you use an adblocker? on Thursday December 08, 2011 @04:00AM (#3328356)
I use Flash Block for most sites by default and will only disable it on sites I believe in supporting. I don't hate adverts I just dislike crappy flash ones slowing things down.