All posts written by Jonathan Barrett
Switching wings mid-flight
How would you choose to release a completely redesigned version of your web application? Capistrano? Git hooks? Copying files over SFTP? Now imagine your application serves over 21,000 active, multi-user accounts. It’s a very busy app, and forms the backbone of many of those users’ livelihoods. At that point, the question perhaps becomes less about “how”, and more about “when”. 1am? And how long is the downtime going to be?… Continue reading
CoffeeScript with jQuery sprinkles
This is part two of a two part intro to CoffeeScript. part one part two So my last article on CoffeeScript certainly seemed to provoke some thought. Some of you even found it useful, which is all sorts of awesome. If you haven't had a look at that article, I'd advise doing that first, as this one builds on it. There is one more thing I’d like to touch on… Continue reading
! ‘CoffeeScript: two sugars, no bitter aftertaste’
This is part one of a two part intro to CoffeeScript. part one part two The FreeAgent web application runs on Rails, and around the corner for us is an upgrade to Rails 3.1. This will bring many benefits to performance, but one of the things I'm most excited about is the asset pipeline. This makes JS and CSS assets first-class Rails citizens, and as a bonus, allows us built-in… Continue reading