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Hi. I'm Nick Olejniczak and this is where I write about technology, the web and other bits of general geekery. I'm a web developer who loves Ruby on Rails, web standards and personal publishing. Interested in working together? Get in touch.

 

Posts tagged 'development'

How I got my Ruby on Rails + MySQL environment back up and running after installing Snow Leopard
September 01, 2009
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If programming languages were religions
December 20, 2008
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Sketching in Code
June 20, 2008
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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Using a Lot of Disk Space to Scale
May 21, 2008
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How they scaled Facebook Chat
May 15, 2008
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New Relic
May 01, 2008
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To Launch or Not to Launch
April 28, 2008
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Advice from Coudal on how to transition from client work to products
April 26, 2008
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Killing Some Bad Layout Conventions
December 10, 2007
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Blue Beanie Day 2007
November 26, 2007
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nicholasjon.com is iPhone-ready
July 07, 2007
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Scaling Rails via Twitter
April 15, 2007
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How game mechanics can make your app more fun
March 30, 2007
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Joyent Slingshot
March 24, 2007
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Devils and details
March 22, 2007
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Ruby and MySQL on Ubuntu
January 20, 2007
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30 dark designs you should’ve seen
January 13, 2007
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Why Ruby?
January 11, 2007
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Wil Shipley's talk to students
November 04, 2006
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JavaScript Performance Recommendations
September 17, 2006
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Ruby's new clothes
September 16, 2006
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Scope in JavaScript
September 16, 2006
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Fixed or fluid width? Elastic!
August 24, 2006
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An introduction to using patterns in web design
August 12, 2006
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AssetPackager
June 23, 2006
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Cork'd
May 17, 2006
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The web design trend obituary and death clock
May 02, 2006
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bloglines and memeorandum don't bother with databases
April 27, 2006
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Rails developers: Use params, not @params
April 25, 2006
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Making popular layout decisions
April 25, 2006
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How to set up a load-balanced MySQL cluster
March 28, 2006
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The time is now for front-end architects
March 23, 2006
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Rails for Designers
March 23, 2006
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moo.fx
March 14, 2006
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What Are CSS Sprites?
March 10, 2006
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Ten of the biggest mistakes developers make with databases
March 07, 2006
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How to host a subdomain on another server or hosting company
March 03, 2006
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Using Ruby on Rails for Web Development on Mac OS X
February 28, 2006
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The Envelope Pattern of Content Management
February 23, 2006
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The Content Tree
February 23, 2006
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Taking Aim at Target(.com)
February 13, 2006
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Alphabetized lists are random lists
February 13, 2006
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How to access your project with RadRails and SVN
February 11, 2006
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Subversion - A quick tutorial
February 11, 2006
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Subversion FAQ
February 11, 2006
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CSS Basics
February 10, 2006
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CSS opacity and transparency
February 06, 2006
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Ten realistic steps to a faster web site
February 02, 2006
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Web authoring statistics
January 25, 2006
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Simplify PHP Development with WASP
January 20, 2006
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The first computer bug
January 20, 2006
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Sane css typography
January 17, 2006
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Linux newbie guide
January 12, 2006
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Universal child replacement
January 12, 2006
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A dinner with web-based email giants
January 03, 2006
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Switching to Subversion
December 29, 2005
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iPhoto-like image resizing using Javascript
December 20, 2005
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Ruby on Rails v1.0
December 13, 2005
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Centered Tabs with CSS
December 13, 2005
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Random image rotation in Rails
December 11, 2005
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How to make RoR talk to MSSQL from Linux
December 08, 2005
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Using /usr/local
November 29, 2005
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The Web 2.0 Checklist
November 28, 2005
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In search of the One True Layout
November 08, 2005
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An interview with Jeremy Keith
October 12, 2005
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Introducing the CSS3 Multi-Column Module
September 29, 2005
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DOM Scripting Task Force
July 18, 2005
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Build a blog in 15 minutes with Ruby on Rails (QT)
July 11, 2005
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Why 'Enterprise' Development is Hard
May 23, 2005
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