Just found a great PHP class that makes GoogleMaps a cinch in PHP: Phoogle Maps. Only requires a few simple lines of code and it handles Geocoding too. See it in action on Indie Montreal.

On the upside it’s easy to install on a remote webhost, but unlike Rails, I never got Cake working on my local host as a result of mod rewrite problems despite the fact that mod_rewrite works on my webhost for other applications - so just gave up and...

When I moved from Vancouver to Montreal I was disappointed to find out that there were no sites like livemusicvancouver.com – a great database-driven site for concert listings powered by user submissions. There was just a mildly inconvenient to access...

I have been learning Rails over the course of the last year or two and have developed a number of small sites using the framework. Most of these sites are not highly profitable and so getting a VPS server did not make sense for me. Instead I stuck...

This is my solution for a paginating links helper that works with nested routes. It works in combination with the Paginating Find plugin created by the fine folks at Cardboard Rocket, a plugin that you will obviously have to install and apply to your...

For adding an item via Ajax to related models then updating an existing select…

Here’s the situation:

For this example we have a New Product form. Products belong to Companies so we have a select menu of Companies.

You want to add a product and...

I have been learning the ins and outs of Rails development recently. One of the things that I love most about this incredible web development framework is the number and quality of plugins that have been developed that make life easier for Rails programmer...

I started out using Subversion in an office where somebody else had set up a repository and trac and taken care of all the dity work. It was remarkably easy for me to get started. I found the world of version control so appealing and in fact, indispensable...

Switched the site over to Rails and loving it.