When I purchased an amazon kindle, some people started to ask about how’s going with it and if it’s worth to buy one. I decided to write a review only after the first battery recharge, just to be quite sure I’ve used it enough. This happened after three weeks, so here’s my thoughts.

Uploading images with custom sizes on different models is a very common task during web development. Every time, people uses different image uploaders for each model, where the only difference is about sizes. I’d like to share a simple hack to DRY code with some metaprogramming.

It was exactly one year ago, when I launched for the first time http://andreapavoni.com. Now I’m here with a shiny new website, powered with a custom blog engine and some stuff to show off :)

When it comes to develop a CMS, one of the main problems concerns where or how to store and organize views (templates, partials, layouts) for particular needs like different layouts for specific pages, (sub)domains or multi-languages.

In the last post, I explained how to make conditional searches based on conditional params. I wrote a very simple Search class that returns a real model with query done by Arel. I refactored the code to make it simpler to use.