Title: DM-Paperclip - Paperclip for DataMapper Tonight I posted the official release of the DataMapper port of Paperclip that I've been slowly working on for while. Paperclip is a Rails plugin by Thoughtbot which makes it really easy to attach files to your models. I've been interested in doing some...

DM-Paperclip released! »

This may seem a little bit off the wall, but one thing I've been starting to do lately is instead of littering my Projects directory with a bunch of ConsoleApplicationN folders, I've started using the unit test runner within ReSharper to fire up quick little sample things I need. Most often, they're...

Hacking ReSharper + NUnit + Benchmarking »

Recently, we stumbled upon this indiscrete bug in Community Server with its handling of some things in a user's profile. While debugging, couldn't find much about it on Google, so I thought I'd write up a quick explanation so it might help spare some poor sole from losing hair over it. In summary of...

How to properly access ASP.NET profile defaults without a profile »

One little project I had taken up recently was to get Thoughtbot's Paperclip plugin working under Merb and DataMapper. Initially, what I wanted to do was to was implement it completely as a DataMapper custom type. Basically, I wanted this as the class definition: class User include DataMapper::Resource...

Not overthinking a simple problem »

Probably nothing to really go screaming about, but with wanting to become more publicly active as a developer, part of that involves getting code out there, and also contributing to other projects. At Telligent , we do yearly performance reviews and goal setting as way to grow as a developer in experience...

First open source contributions »

On my servers, I recently added some support for a few others to centrally store some Subversion repositories. Instead of each of them having to install the Subversion server on their own, I figured I'd set up a basic shared one, hosted through Apache. One thing I was after was virtual host/host header...

Subversion+Apache virtual host mods »