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The Dumble - Return multiple models in JSON using Rails
http://www.jarroddumble.com/2011/05/25/multiple-models-json-ruby-rails.html
Return multiple models in JSON using Rails. In Rails3 you can handle responding to multiple resource formats (html, json, xml) very easily with the. Method. Plonk one of these at the top of your controller and tell it what format to support. The following code block tells the UserController to respond appropriately to all inbound html, json and xml requests. In your action code you can now use the. Method to auto transform any model objects to the matching resource format on the request. Method as a hash.
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The Dumble - Mobile Apps with Titanium
http://www.jarroddumble.com/2011/05/10/mobile-apps-with-titanium.html
Mobile Apps with Titanium. Titanium mobile is a development platform native iPhone, iPad and Android applications using Javascript. Titanium provides you with over 300 APIs to create native applications. If you want to create mobile applications on iPhone or Android but don’t want to spend months learning Java or Objective-C bingo! Titanium is worth a look. Development tools and performance. Whats more is Im running TextMate, Titanium and iPhone emulator on a Macbook Air 13” and have zero performan...
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The Dumble - Titanium Studio Review
http://www.jarroddumble.com/2011/06/20/titanium-studio-review.html
Appcelerator Titanium is a mobile application framework for creating native applications using Javascript (refer to my previous post here. Titanium Studio is built on top of Aptana’s Javascript IDE which is built on top of the popular Java IDE Eclipse. Thats good news to any Java converts as you will already be familiar with the layout and options. I dont want to ruin the adventure you will have exploring the IDE and its abilities so let me just dot point a few likes/dislikes. Multiple run configurations...
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The Dumble - 4 business benefits to cloud computing
http://www.jarroddumble.com/2011/05/18/4-business-benefits-to-cloud-computing.html
4 business benefits to cloud computing. The first wave of cloud service providers emerged promising a better world where compute resources are sourced easier, faster, and more cheaply than most businesses could do themselves. For the most part they delivered on that promise. Today, cloud computing has reached a maturity level where specialised. Vendors provide cloud resources on a massive scale at very reasonable prices. Other vendors like Engine Yard. Salesforce, Google Apps are. You’ll not need t...
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The Dumble - Quick overview of Phonegap and Titanium
http://www.jarroddumble.com/2011/06/10/overview-of-phonegap-titanium.html
Quick overview of Phonegap and Titanium. If the thought of learning Objective-C to build iPhone applications is as enticing as peeling your own face off don’t worry you have options. It is now possible to create rich mobile applications using other languages more commonly known amongst web developers, yup HTML, CSS and Javascript. The number of device features PhoneGap gets you access to is quick impressive, check it out here. Wow, you mean I can just write HTML, CSS and JS and throw my app out onto each...
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The Dumble - Static blogging with Jekyll & Amazon S3
http://www.jarroddumble.com/2011/04/29/static-blogging-with-jekyll-s3.html
Static blogging with Jekyll and Amazon S3. When I wanted to start this blog I naturally thought of Wordpress. I’d done a few wordpress blogs in the past so I knew it would not take me long at all to whip one of those up. But like most developers I was after a new challenge. So off to GitHub I went and searched for Ruby repos for ‘blog’. First up in the results was Jekyll. 8217;…a simple, blog aware, static site generator’. The key in that statement is. Right now I’m in good shape to get going. ...Set you...
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The Dumble - Choose tools to help you prototype
http://www.jarroddumble.com/2011/06/25/tools-help-you-prototype.html
Choose tools to help you prototype. Speed is an important objective when prototyping a web application. To achieve maximum warp speed you may need to adopt completely new ways of running prototype projects. This could mean new processes, new skills, new support services. Most importantly you should consider adopting languages and frameworks which optimise the use of your most precious and limited resource…time. Since Rails I’ve been very interested in languages and frameworks that get me going fast...
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The Dumble - Be a shark and keep moving
http://www.jarroddumble.com/2011/07/05/be-a-shark-keep-moving.html
Be a shark and keep moving. When it comes to developing an idea you need to. Be a shark, always keep moving or you will die. Consider though that moving could mean circling over the same idea continually or it may mean slicing through multiple ideas one after the other. Through quantity comes quality. Essentially saying that you are more likely to create a winning idea if you try multiple ideas as the likelihood of you hitting on a winning idea first up is reasonably slim. So stay positive, keep learning...
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The Dumble - AppStore rejection
http://www.jarroddumble.com/2012/06/26/app-store-rejection.html
Got your app but so sorry you fail’ response from Apple. OK, deep breath to repress the oncoming rage attack. During development I played around with this feature a little and in doing so enabled. For audio and location as well as. Of gps and location-services which without the accompanying user facing function broken Apple Guideline 2.16 of Apple Store Review Guidelines. Hi, my name is Jarrod Dumble. I'm a developer and web architect in Melbourne Australia working for Ventiv. I build solutions with Rails.
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