tag:dancunning.com,2005:/technology/index The issues and solutions to making your application’s handling of user parameters secure by default, before Ruby on Rails offered an out-of-the-box solution. 2012-03-14 12:00:00 UTC Dan Cunning https://dancunning.com/ruby-on-rails/working-with-web-apis.html When your application interacts with the web a lot can go wrong. Working with Ruby on Rails over the last five years, I’ve seen a lot of them first hand, and with this article I hope to share some of that experience and help you write more reliable, efficient and friendly code. 2012-03-15 12:00:00 UTC Dan Cunning https://dancunning.com/ruby-on-rails/ajax-toggle-buttons.html How to create toggle buttons using Ruby on Rails, ajax, and unobtrusive javascript. Straight-forward and boring, just how I like it. 2014-04-16 12:00:00 UTC Dan Cunning https://dancunning.com/ruby-on-rails/aws-s3-browser.html Amazon’s S3 makes storing files easy but viewing directories isn’t intuitive. Let me explain how you can emulate a file structure using Plain-Old-Ruby-Objects. 2014-04-16 12:00:00 UTC Dan Cunning https://dancunning.com/ruby-on-rails/finding-your-most-active-users-with-google-analytics.html Google Analytics is normally used to track a website’s visitors and pageviews, but it can also track specific users, which can be invaluable information as you develop your customer base. Who is the most active? What are they using? Whose usage is fading? 2014-05-29 12:00:00 UTC Dan Cunning https://dancunning.com/ruby-on-rails/simple-infinite-scrolling.html Ruby on Rails and jQuery team up to allow your visitors to scroll through all your content without initially loading them all. 2014-06-16 12:00:00 UTC Dan Cunning https://dancunning.com/technology/past-present-and-future-of-computers.html Computers have made an undeniably permanent mark on the world, but their success wasn't gained overnight. They slowly improved what they could do, leading to advancements that led to new advancements. Let's look at how they progressed to what they are today and try to predict what they might do in the future. 2014-07-10 12:00:00 UTC Dan Cunning https://dancunning.com/ruby-on-rails/beware-active-record-callbacks.html ActiveRecord is a fantastically well-made ORM that makes working with databases a breeze, but one feature in the callback structure is incredibly bug-prone. 2014-07-17 12:00:00 UTC Dan Cunning https://dancunning.com/economy/the-communication-age.html The explosion of the Internet and mobile devices shaped a new age where people across the globe are always connected and always communicating, irreversibly changing the way we meet, work, govern, and socialize. 2014-11-04 12:00:00 UTC Dan Cunning https://dancunning.com/ruby-on-rails/mailing-lists/ Mailing lists remain an effective way for groups to communicate. We’ll explore how to implement them in your Rails application to improve its overall user-experience. 2015-02-21 12:00:00 UTC Dan Cunning https://dancunning.com/ruby-on-rails/views-mailers-directory.html Avoid cluttering up app/views by moving mailer directories underneath a single parent. 2015-03-04 12:00:00 UTC Dan Cunning https://dancunning.com/ruby-on-rails/time-zones-and-datetime-select.html A simple fix for using datetime_select and time_zone_select together. 2015-05-12 12:00:00 UTC Dan Cunning https://dancunning.com/ruby-on-rails/form-builder-label-and-full-error-messages.html Why you should never use the explicit “content” parameter of label_tag or the form builder’s label method. 2015-05-18 12:00:00 UTC Dan Cunning https://dancunning.com/economy/more-representative-democracy.html An outline for how a simple website could solve many of the problems with our current legislative systems. 2015-06-16 12:00:00 UTC Dan Cunning https://dancunning.com/ruby-on-rails/progress-bars.html How to create a progress bar using Ruby on Rails, AJAX, and Twitter Bootstrap. 2015-09-08 12:00:00 UTC Dan Cunning https://dancunning.com/ruby-on-rails/loading-buttons.html Converting action buttons into loading buttons is a common way for AJAX applications indicate that it’s waiting on the server to verify an action and respond. 2016-07-14 12:00:00 UTC Dan Cunning https://dancunning.com/ruby-on-rails/minimum-viable-test-suite.html Ensure your test suite doesn’t have any important holes in coverage by enforcing a simple rule. 2016-07-24 12:00:00 UTC Dan Cunning https://dancunning.com/technology/how-hard-would-it-be-to.html Identifying calibrated questions aimed at software developers 2020-01-12 12:00:00 UTC Dan Cunning https://dancunning.com/ruby-on-rails/tracking-your-aws-costs.html Write yourself a daily, weekly, or monthly report with your AWS costs broken down more granularly than AWS’ monthly invoice. 2020-01-17 12:00:00 UTC Dan Cunning https://dancunning.com/economy/exponentials-in-pandemics-and-innovation.html Whether inside a computer or real life, a linear system under exponential pressure crashes and fails. 2020-04-16 12:00:00 UTC Dan Cunning https://dancunning.com/technology/ios-default-browser.html For years, iOS has opened links with Safari with no way for you to change it. iOS 14 finally allows setting your default browser. 2020-10-14 12:00:00 UTC Dan Cunning