links for 2008-07-27

Mobile Fu automatically detects mobile devices that access your Rails application. People can access your site from a Palm, Blackberry, iPhone, Nokia, etc. and it will automatically adjust the format of the request from :html to :mobile.

Pete Forde asked me to present on memcached (mem-cache-dee) after my popular blog article Secret to memcached. The talk covers different use cases such as simple html snippet stores to advanced expiry systems such as generational cache keys.

Utilising SWFUpload with Rails can be tricky. For this tutorial we’re going to be using SWFUpload, the popular attachment_fu plugin, some attachment_fu hacks and the mimetype_fu plugin.

“Apple, it seems, now has to deal with the average Joe and the average Joe is considerably more cranky than some turtle-necked fanboys in their loft in SoHo,” Biggs wrote.

However, we can do better. There’s still a lot of noise in the view, mostly related to conditions and computations on the model objects. Let’s pull some of that into the model: