ryanmacg's comments

ryanmacg | 11 years ago | on: Show HN: Kerstman, a secret santa app built using rails

There's a test version online at the moment here - https://kerstman.herokuapp.com/

While it asks for a signup it's just looking for a valid unique email so you can use pretty much anything. The matching stage is the only point where emails are actually dispatched

ryanmacg | 11 years ago | on: Our Development Workflow

In theory yes, a feature that requires more work shouldn’t make it’s way into dev really.

ryanmacg | 11 years ago | on: Ask HN: Private Git repo hosting?

I used to use github but I’ve moved towards gitlab in the past while as my need for private repos dropped in scale

ryanmacg | 12 years ago | on: Show HN: Rails based Asset Manager for business environments

I'll add some information on the homepage. I made sure I was clear to release this before I left the company I made it at

ryanmacg | 12 years ago | on: Show HN: Rails based Asset Manager for business environments

Should have said while it does ask for an email during signup it doesn't require any activation and will work so long as the email address is in a valid format

ryanmacg | 12 years ago | on: If Your Business Uses Rails 2.3 You Need To Move To A Supported Option ASAP

Gotcha, there's also some information on migrating to paperclip[1] which might suit and I'm sure someone will have done similar for CarrierWave. Of course none of that helps with being short staffed.

[1]https://gist.github.com/serek/375203

ryanmacg | 12 years ago | on: If Your Business Uses Rails 2.3 You Need To Move To A Supported Option ASAP

I might be wrong but would the trick maybe be to break it down bit by bit, so for instance break off your existing file upload stuff and replace it with CarrierWave or something different. I don't know what your codebase is like but doing it that way should in theory make it more copable to slowly tick it up to rails 3+

ryanmacg | 13 years ago | on: My customer wants me to record a video of how I develop his software product

Looks cool, I grabbed AKMYPYNNRPP9

Thanks!

ryanmacg | 13 years ago | on: Shame.css

I was trying to think of the last time I had to use !important or similar and sure enough it's in my IE specific stylesheet

ryanmacg | 13 years ago | on: Why Codeworkx ceased Development of CyanogenMod 10 for the Galaxy S3

Yeah, I've kept a close eye on this since I own an S3 and run CM and he's definitely still working on it from what I've seen. That might be related to Samsung saying they'd be more open going forward though

ryanmacg | 13 years ago | on: Why Codeworkx ceased Development of CyanogenMod 10 for the Galaxy S3

It's extra bizarre when you consider that Daniel still seems to be (based on his G+) developing for the S3

ryanmacg | 13 years ago | on: Microsoft is developing a Google Glass competitor

It looks like this was submitted (May 2011) before Google announced Project Glass (Apr 2012)

ryanmacg | 13 years ago | on: Configuring Sublime Text 2

Sublime has both cmd-t and cmd-p in the OS X version, the general thinking for this seems to be related to other editors (such as Textmate) having used cmd-t. By having this in Sublime by default switching becomes easier.

ryanmacg | 13 years ago | on: Samsung Plugs Remote Wipe Flaw, Urges Galaxy SIII Owners To Update

See this commit https://android.googlesource.com/platform/packages/apps/Cont...

it was an issue in any Android variant that featured autodial, I saw someone reporting it worked on CyanogenMod 7 for example and it also worked on some HTC devices

ryanmacg | 13 years ago | on: Samsung Plugs Remote Wipe Flaw, Urges Galaxy SIII Owners To Update

The article is kind of misleading, the exploit was part of Android rather than anything to do with Samsung and was patched in AOSP as of 4.1.1(?). This meansn it was an issue on any phone that dialled automatically and doesn't run a build with the patch applied. Also the patch from Samsung was part of an OTA update from at least a week ago in the US, I know it pinged up just after I booted the S3 I bought on Saturday in the UK.

ryanmacg | 13 years ago | on: IPhone 5 Price Breakdown (UK Only)

3000 texts is the fair usage cap on texts with most UK networks

ryanmacg | 13 years ago | on: EE to launch 4G mobile services in 16 UK cities in 2012

I'm sure they'd love to get 4G launched but they're all being held up by the fact that OFCOM haven't had the spectrum auction yet

ryanmacg | 13 years ago | on: Twitter Reportedly Discontinuing Development of Its Mac Client

Unfortunately it's Windows only which doesn't fix the issue of Twitter for Mac being put out to pasture. It is a great twitter app if you ever use Windows though

ryanmacg | 13 years ago | on: Mojang, makers of Minecraft, sued by patent troll

For further info on the patent in question http://news.priorsmart.com/uniloc-v-mojang-ab-l6rh/#pat-6857...

ryanmacg | 14 years ago | on: Poll: Do you use an adblocker?

I use Flash Block for most sites by default and will only disable it on sites I believe in supporting. I don't hate adverts I just dislike crappy flash ones slowing things down.