I found recently that I wanted to get SSL enabled when making HTTP connections with Ruby. However, if you’re wishing to talk to servers that have certificates signed by commercial certificate authorities then you won’t be able to verify them when you make a connection: require ‘net/http’ require ‘net/https’ http = Net::HTTP.new(‘www.google.com’, 443) http.use_ssl = [...]
After working on several web projects that have required plenty of integration involving many systems within the enterprise, I’ve come to some realisations about getting integration right: Services must be exposed at the right level It’s extremely tempting when performing integration to try and apply good application programming practices of keeping methods simple and stringing [...]
I’d been hearing about jQuery for quite a whiles now but resisted the temptation to dive in. The Rails community in particular is quite abuzz with it and I’d heard the creator of it interviewed on Geoffrey Grosenbach’s Ruby on Rails Podcast. Still I resisted, surely prototype and scriptaculous were the way to go, after [...]
About Me
My name is Trent McClenahan. I'm passionate about the web and establishing high performance teams. After 15 years in Sydney I am now based in Newcastle, Australia.
