wp_monochrome is my first attempt at designing a wordpress theme. I’m using it on this blog right now, so if you’re reading this from a feed reader, you might want to drop by and see what it looks like.
It is a simple theme composed almost entirely of shades of grey. The theme works fine in [...]
Just a couple of weeks into being a rails developer, I made the one really, really, really big blunder — I used a find_by_sql in a search page. (Oh, please… stop booing. I was a newbie then.) Now, I’ve realized that I might have to modify the search to add yet another column, and well… [...]
Recently I was trying to find ways to import data from excel spreadsheets into the database in a rails project. We needed to save the data from the client’s excel file into the database. Here’s how it can be done using a rake task.
The file will have to be in CSV format, so you’ll have [...]
After yet another disappointing performance yesterday by the football (soccer, if you’re American) club I support, Liverpool, this was my tweet:
I’ve already started counting days until FIFA world cup. Football season seem practically over for Liverpool. :(
I actually did count the days, but being a web developer, I ended up writing javascript code to do [...]
Yesterday, after looking around Google’s Chrome OS, I felt exactly the way I felt when I got an invite to preview Google’s other big launch this year, Google Wave — underwhelmed. Chrome OS is a work in progress and there’s a long way to go yet, but as of now, it’s little more than a [...]
For a few days now, I’ve been working on a wordpress based website where I have to edit quite a few files directly on the server. I used wordpress’ theme and plugin editors for the first day, but it soon became too difficult to edit the files that way and I had to look for [...]
I have moved this blog from its old location on blogspot (http://binarydoodles.blogspot.com) to my own domain, http://nithinbekal.com/.
The posts were moved to the new location a few days ago, but I wasn’t sure what to do with the feeds and that caused quite a bit of delay. I’ve set up the Feedburner Feedsmith plugin to use [...]
A month ago, I finally decided to switch to an LCD display, having been using CRT all this while. After looking around for a good but not too expensive monitor, I finally bought AOC’s recently released F22.
The F22 is a 21.5 inch widescreen monitor with a native resolution of 1920×1080, which means you can watch [...]
Find out how to set up ruby on rails development environment on windows.
About a week ago at work, I was asked to evaluate Ruby Encoder, an application to encrypt the source code of your ruby application.
Normally, you wouldn’t want to encrypt the source code of your ruby applications. The code resides on your server and there’s no way anyone else can access it. However, if you are [...]