Simon Rentzke

This method is the most efficient, super simple way to generate CSV files with Rails. It uses an active record connection and the Postgres…

I was struggling to find a solution to easily provide thumb pngs, as well as display svgs inline with the img tag with the ruby gem…

If you, like me, by mistake added a password to a Github Wiki, and would like to remove it from history. It’s actually quite easy. The whole…

The age of intelligent api’s is here. If you want to get a taste of what Google’s new “Cloud Vision API” can do. Sign up here https://cloud…

I used to think I had a few hobbies, mountain biking, rugby, vege gardening, coding, etc, etc, but then my wife and I bought a Queenslander…

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Setup your app directory Specify your Ruby version Setup Gemfile with edge rails, rack and arel Use rails generators to create new app, and…

I was recently playing with Google’s new Photo application. An incredibly powerful little application, yet has an incredibly simple UI…

I’ve had a few close calls when switching between the Dev/Staging/Prod environments. These will save you from any nasty suprises! I just…

tl;dr && and || have higher precendence Difference between ‘and’ and ’&&’ Similarly with ‘or’ and ’||’ I generally follow this style guide

Sometimes I work on a few branches at the same time. Emergency bug fix branch here, new feature branch there, performance update branch here…

Recently I have been investigating what the cheapest/easiest setup could be for a home entertainment system would be. I have an old Macbook…

I was reminiscing recently about what my programming exercises were at high school. I started on Turbo Pascal. This is was one of the first…

Recently I attended a workshop at the Edge on 3D printing and slime mould. The event’s title was so whack, that I signed up - not knowing…

I like credit cards, I base my whole month on not caring about if I have cash in my current account, and put my whole earnings into a…