Announcing VuGA Rails Plugin for viewing Google Analytics Statistics

Tuesday, June 15th, 2010


I wanted to give you my readers a peak at what i’m working on at the moment. I’ve start created by first Ruby on Rails plugin “VuGA” which stands for View Google Analytics. The premise of the plugin is that … Continue reading →

Top Websites, Podcasts & Screencasts for Learning Ruby on Rails

Thursday, June 10th, 2010


Yesterday i stumbled across a great new podcast series i had not come across before for learning ruby on rails. I’ve built up a few resources i use to help with rails programming, that i thought id share.

Creating vcards with ruby on rails

Thursday, June 10th, 2010


vCards provide a great way to pas your contact details to your clients, its a widely supported format which most programs for managing contacts understand be it outlook, outlook express, or macs address book. For a recent project we had … Continue reading →

Creating Columns Of Equal Heights Using Divs

Wednesday, May 26th, 2010


Sometimes we want to create a layout with multiple columns, this multiple column layout used to be created with tables. Now we use CSS to layout out pages and we can create multicolumn layouts by floating divs left. The problem … Continue reading →

Alfred – A New Launcher For Mac OS X

Friday, May 14th, 2010


Over the years there been many application launchers for Mac OS X. The most popular one being quicksilver, quicksilver is no longer maintained and I found myself not using it much as I found it just to complicated. Enter Alfred … Continue reading →

Using Geektools To Display Sunrise And Sunset Times

Tuesday, May 11th, 2010


I was requested to provide scripts for sunrise and sunset times so find the below. When pasting in these commands ensure that they are all on the same line. For some reason wordpress is placing the line on 2 lines … Continue reading →

Displaying Google Analytics Statistic Using Geektools

Wednesday, May 5th, 2010


I like to know how my blog is doing traffic wise. It helps to know if any articles is becoming popular. To save me logging in to Google Analytics everyday i decided to create a script which i could then … Continue reading →

Displaying Google Analytics information using ruby

Tuesday, May 4th, 2010


Google provide an API to connect with Google Analytics and retrieve information from your account.  For a recent ruby project i wanted to retrieve some information from google analytics from within my application.  Whilst looking into this i came across … Continue reading →

Displaying Weather Information on Your Desktop Using Geektools

Friday, April 30th, 2010


A couple of weeks a go i wrote a series on displaying useful information directly on your desktop.  I missed one common request of that series of articles.  Displaying Weather information so here you go.

7 Great iPhone Apps For Looking After Your Blog

Monday, April 26th, 2010


I finally got hold of an iphone a few months ago and since then have found a few tools which allow me to monitor and update my blog on the go.  So i am goign to let you know the … Continue reading →