We're starting to put some real effort into combining our separate systems under a central authentication system and i have a lot of random thoughts.  1. Rubycas server code is readable and very easy to understand. I had issues with gems and con... (more)

Our sites use several applications and legacy systems that don't automatically crop/resize graphics and whatnot.  Ideally, the apps would take whatever they are given, convert to a nice format, crop/resize accordingly, then put them in the right... (more)

A lot of rails guys like their plugins and magic helpers and junk, but I've never been a fan.  I prefer to write full HTML & use simple methods that are easy to understand 8 months later when you look back at the code. I've seen a lot of wei... (more)