Holiday project!

Thursday, December 20th, 2007

The day before yesterday I registered a domain name for a new project and yesterday (while recovering from a really upset stomach) I wrote three A5 pages with a database model, sketchy requirements and possible features. All from very basic ones ("It shall be possible to register a new user ...

Old and new Ruby and Agile books

Friday, December 14th, 2007

A bunch of computer books I had ordered arrived to the office last week. Since I'm working on-site at my client I'm not at the office very often so didn't pick them up until today. The books are: Agile Software Development With Scrum by Mike A. Beedle and Ken Schwaber Agile Web ...

MySQL support for UTF-8 in Ruby on Rails

Tuesday, December 11th, 2007

As a follow-up to my post about MySQL support for UTF-8 in PHP, here is the very same information for Ruby on Rails. In Rails it is a simple configuration entry in config/database.yml. I use the development configuration as an example: development: adapter: mysql database: dev username: dev ...