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Monthly Archives: August 2011

Aug
30
2011

Comps – design vs reality comparisons in Chrome

For a long time, I used the PixelPerfect Firefox add-on to compare rendered comps with my finished web work. This was a fast and effective way to make sure that I got the spacings, font sizes, and other such things done properly. However, PixelPerfect doesn’t work all that well (well, at all) anymore, and Firefox [...]

By Chris Heald | Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , | Comments (0)
Aug
24
2011

Rails Cookie Sessions and PHP

I recently found myself needing to share session data from my Rails app with a PHP app on the same domain. We use cookie sessions for a number of reasons, and while they work great, the data stored in them is stored in Ruby’s native Marshal format, which is not trivial to reimplement in PHP. [...]

By Chris Heald | Posted in Rails, Ruby | Tagged , | Comments (0)
Aug
19
2011

Restarting Resque workers (or anything, really) with Monit, Passengers-style.

Easy way to trigger off a reload of a service managed by Monit without having to become root. In my case, I’ve got a monit service called resque-worker, and I can restart it by just touching tmp/resque-restart.txt. Ties in nicely with deploy tasks, and you don’t have to end up leaving root access SSH keypairs [...]

By Chris Heald | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments (0)