01personal pivotMay 2, 2012Install MySQL on Mac OS X 10.7+The no fuss, no muss guide to installing the latest stable version of MySQL DB locally on your Mac running OS X 10.7 or later. (Hat tip to Trey ...2 min readRead more
02personal pivotMay 1, 2012Install Homebrew on Mac OS X 10.7+How to Install Homebrew on Mac OS X (10.7 or later) This one's super-quick and easy! If you want to easily install other tools and add-ons in the ...1 min readRead more
03personal pivotMar 19, 2012Change OS X's Archive Utility PreferencesSo you're sick of the lame, default settings that OS X's _Archive Utility_ comes with and you want to change 'em? Yeah—I did too. So, here's three ...3 min readRead more
04personal pivotMar 8, 2012Setting up PostgreSQL on Mac OS XWhat's that? You're making a Rails app, planning on eventually pushing it to Heroku, and you're still running SQLite locally on your machine? Like a ...4 min readRead more
05personal pivotMar 6, 2012Don't forget to rake after deploying to herokuDeploying your Rails 3 app to heroku (on their _Cedar_ stack)? Protip Don't forget to run this command—ya know, just as you would when first running ...1 min readRead more
06personal pivotMar 5, 2012Rails' default HTTP methods for button_to and link_to helpersHere's a tip when using Rails' button_to and link_to URL helpers! Never ever forget these two things: button_to uses the :POST method by default ...2 min readRead more
07personal pivotFeb 29, 2012So you wanna use Git, huh?Over the past few weeks, I've been working on an app with three other people. The four us divided up the necessary work that needed to be done, chose ...4 min readRead more
08personal pivotJan 10, 2012Code Academy Has Begun!Remember that one time when I moved to Chicago to start ~~Code Academy~~ The Starter League? Oh wait, that just happened! Back Story After graduating ...3 min readRead more