Michael Bleigh

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Michael Bleigh's Blog Posts

• AngularJS 2.0: Crazy Like A Fox?
• Polymer 0.8 Sneak Peek
• Let's Kill Semantic HTML
• Polymer Features You May Have Missed
• Every Web App is (at least) Two Applications
• Web Components, a Crash Course
• Polymer Application Structure Tips
• Get Moving with Angular 1.2 and Animate CSS
• Mourning Mozilla Persona
• Static Web Rising
• JSON Web Token: The Useful Little Standard You Haven't Heard About
• Remote teams aren't a perk or a fad, they're the future of work
• Requiring directories in Ruby, Node-style
• Building Modular, Scalable Web Apps? Of CORS!
• The Problem with PaaS
• QUP.TV
• Signed Idempotent Action Links
• Five Tips for Hackathon Participants
• Lessons Learned: Natively Compiling Tidy HTML for Heroku
• Polishing Rubies (Part 4): Writing Library Code
• Polishing Rubies (Part 3): Tools for Testing
• Polishing Rubies (Part 2): Creating A Gem
• Polishing Rubies: A Guide to Ruby Open Source Development (Part 1)
• Imbue: A Module Configuration Pattern for Ruby
• Using Anonymous Classes and Modules in Ruby
• DynamoDB for Ruby Developers
• We Stand With The Internet
• Announcing OmniAuth BrowserID
• Implementing DRY Magic Methods in Ruby
• OmniAuth 1.0: Auth for All
• Hire a Guard for Your Project
• Sketch.js: HTML5 Canvas Sketchpads for Whyday
• What's Wrong With Patents? It's Obvious.
• Ruby Thankful
• 10 Tips For Open Source Citizens
• Setting Up a Ruby Development Machine From Scratch With OS X Lion
• What if Rails Isn't For Beginners Anymore?
• Conversations: The Controller Setter Pattern
• RailsConf To Go: OmniAuth from the Ground Up
• I Heart SASS, But HAML, I'm Just Not That In To You
• You Should Be An Open Source Developer
• Why Open Source Company Culture is Important
• Easy IP Geotargeting with Geokit and MongoMapper
• RailsWizard Reimagined
• Always Be Releasing
• Announcing SparkBin - Private Beta
• Use lambdas for Rails 3 Route Constraints
• Fun With jQuery Deferred
• Easy Rails Admin Login with Google Apps and OmniAuth
• Is Copyleft Really Right for Open Source?
• OmniAuth: Flexible, Unassuming Multi-Provider Authentication for Rack
• A Web Developer Goes Native (with Android)
• Using NPM with Heroku Node.js
• Talkin' About Upgrading to Rails 3
• A To-Go Plate of Ruby Midwest
• On Android and Custom UIs
• MultiJSON: The swappable JSON handler
• AuthButtons: Free and Open-Source Web Logo Icons
• REST isn't what you think it is, and that's OK
• The Future's Pretty Cool, or Why I Love Ruby
• Facebook is the Private Beta of the Semantic Web
• OAuth2 Gem: Just in Time For Facebook's Graph
• Rack Middleware and Rack Applications: What's the Difference?
• Ruby Quick Tip: Instant Utility Modules
• Toggle CSS3 Bookmarklet
• Persistence Smoothie: Blending NoSQL and SQL at Confoo
• Ruby Quick Tip: Regular Expressions in Case Statements
• Hashie Gains a Chainable Hash
• Skeet: A Twitter Client for Chrome
• Redfinger: A Ruby WebFinger Gem
• Simple Mustache JSON Serialization
• Hashie: The Hash Toolkit
• Quick Tip: Readable Conditional Validations in Rails
• Presently Adds SharePoint Integration
• TweetStream: Ruby Access to the Twitter Streaming API
• CouchDB-Lucene, CouchDBX, and CouchRest
• Good Idea, Bad Idea: Thingivore's Rails Rumble Post-Mortem
• Quick Tip: Railsy Array Checks in jQuery
• Present.ly Wins WebWare 100 Editors' Choice Award!
• Make it so with RSpec Macros
• RailsConf 2009: Twitter on Rails
• TwitterAuth Supports 'Sign in with Twitter'
• Present.ly Adds LDAP Authentication
• Rails Template: Create a Twitter Application in Seconds
• Present.ly is a WebWare 100 Finalist!
• Using Git Submodules for Shared Rails Components
• TwitterAuth: For Near-Instant Twitter Apps
• Quick Tip: URL Validation in Rails
• Utilize Canonical URLs in Your Rails Applications
• It's No Joke: Real Time Search is a BIG DEAL
• SASS: The Better, More Powerful CSS
• The Case For Web Applications
• HasAvatar: Defining an Application Vocabulary
• Twitter Search Plus: Find Replies Inline with Twitter Search
• Sort Your Files By Date
• The Importance of External Downtime Resources
• 48 hours, 12 developers, 3 applications - Intridea at the Rails Rumble
• Hacking the Mid-End (Great Lakes Ruby Bash Edition)
• Present.ly Launches
• Congratulations, Yammer, But Get Ready To Rumble!
• RailsConf Europe 2008: Hacking the Mid-End
• Colorist: Color Manipulation For WebHeads
• Fetches: Bringing Your ActionController its Slippers
• Using HTTP Status Codes for Rails AJAX Error Handling
• UberKit Update: UberForms To Ease Form Building
• UberKit: Building A Rails UI Swiss-Army Knife
• What the World Needs Now is CSS3
• Tracking Your Brand With Summize
• Using RSpec and Autotest While Writing Rails Plugins
• SubdomainFu: A New Way To Tame The Subdomain
• GemPlugins: A Brief Introduction to the Future of Rails Plugins
• Acts As Taggable On Grows Up
• Acts As Community: The Social Network for Rubyists
• From Param: How URL-Based Fetching Ought to Be
• Seed Fu: Simple Seed Data for Rails
• Mash - Mocking Hash for total poser objects
• Google App Engine: Rise of the Hobbyist?
• Ruby-GitHub: Simple Access to the GitHub API
• GitHub-Unfuddle Bridge: A Reese's Moment
• The Importance of Aesthetics
• Acts as Readable - Drop-in 'mark as read' functionality
• Codebite: Generic "New Today" for Rails Records
• ActiveRecord::Base.create_or_update on Steroids
• Needy Controllers - DRYing Stylesheets, Scripts, and Fetching
• When You Absolutely Have To: Rails Development in Windows
• Announcing 'Princely' - Rails Prince XML PDF Wrapper
• Faking 'onpaste' in Firefox
• Announcing 'Browserized Styles'
• Announcing 'acts_as_taggable_on'
• Use 'link_to_remote' unobtrusively
• DRYing markup using block-accepting helpers
• Custom Paths in attachment_fu
• Setting up a virtualized Rails development environment