Jason Kadrmas – Adventures in Coding

Recently for a project I was required to take a list of keywords and make an auto suggest feature. Typically, this can be achieved through some simple but crude sql.
Since the project already required Elasticsearch, all the records were already neatly indexed for me. (minus the keywords) Additionally, the project was developed in Rails so I already had the benefit of the elasticsearch-rails project. With that in...

ActiveRecord is great when you need to quickly access and manipulate a few rows within a database. Loading records into a database is just as easy… Seed files and custom rake tasks make inserting records a breeze. But what happens when you need to import...

Masking images on the web has typically been a job reserved for Adobe Flash or some equivalent photo manipulation tool as a static image. While Flash was prevalent on the web, it became really easy to mask an image with a vector shape. Now that Flash...

For some folks that just tried out their PhoneGap apps for the first time on iOS 7, you may have seen something like this…
If you are like me, now is the time where you google for awhile to find out how to get rid of something that you have already figured out with iOS 6 Thanks for the update Apple....