This post is part of my weekly tech learning series, where I take one hour each week to try out a piece of technology that I’d like to learn. Make sure to read to the end, where I have a screencast overview of the final application. This week I decided to learn a bit more …
Tag: sinatra
Learning pjax – Tutorial and Screencast
This post is part of my weekly tech learning series, where I take one hour each week to try out a piece of technology that I’d like to learn. This week I’m back to JavaScript, trying out the pjax library from Chris Wanstrath. pjax 1.0.0 was just released a few days ago and I’ve been …
Sinatra Todo – a web frontend to a plain text todo file
I wanted to share an application I created that I’ve been using for a few months called Sinatra Todo. Why I built it I’ve been using GTD and other time management systems for several years now and have seen myself go through two stages: Using high tech, shiney, whiz-bang gadgets to track my todo list. …
On Safari – A web app to check SafariBooksOnline.com
Earlier today I launched my very first Sinatra app, OnSafari. OnSafari is a tool to check if a book is available on Safari Books. I’m been a member of Safari Books for several years now and I’m constantly wondering if a book I’m looking at at a bookstore is on Safari or not. OnSafari will …
Hosting git-wiki with Phusion Passenger
I recently converted my server to use Phusion Passenger to host my Rails and Rack applications. Phusion Passenger has pretty good for Rack applications and Sinatra but I was running into a lot of issues with hosting my git-wiki. After some debugging, I found git-wiki wasn’t loading the view path correctly while hosted under Passenger. …