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hello, i'm yan

I am a photographer, entrepreneur, software engineer, guitarist, climber, and telemark skier

This blog is about startups, blogging, Ruby On Rails, virtualization and cloud computing, photography, customer service, marketing, ux and design, git, and lots more.

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Posts from July 2008

Debugging technique for Rails: decode the session cookie

Ever try to debug a problem and needed to see what was inside the user’s session at the time? If you’re using the cookie session store (Rails 2.x), you can now use this tool to take a look: http://pastie.org/235017 Simply invoke it like this: DebugTools.show_session(“your long session id goes in here”) The code deals with [...]


Why do developers ignore alignment and padding?

Imagine you walk into a room and there is clutter everywhere, things all over the floor, the walls are covered with random artwork hung at every height imaginable. You would start feeling uncomfortable and overloaded very quickly. Yet we do this to our users every day by not paying attention to the very basics. There [...]


Bluehost stores your password in plain text

This is a public service announcement to users of bluehost.com hosting. They store your account password in plain text. During my long drawn out battle where they refused to own up to database problems, one of the support calls resulted in the support woman asking me for my password. When I refused to give it [...]


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