Sérgio Santos

Founder and developer at Bloco.
Technician at Rádio Baixa. Host of Posto.
Member of Coimbr'a Pedal.

Sinatra & Mongoid template app

At Codebits I had some problems configuring a Sinatra application to use MongoDB with the Mongoid ORM. And then I had some other problems deploying it on Heroku with the MongoHQ add-on.

Eventually I got it all working smoothly. To avoid going through the hassle again, I uploaded to GitHub a template application which works out of the box with the above configuration. Looking at it now, it looks pretty straightforward, and I can’t remember what the issues were. But it might save some time to someone else.

Sinatra Mongoid App

Tags: development

More presents: Designing Media by Bill Moggridge

The book features interviews with thirty-seven significant figures in both traditional and new forms of mass communication; interviewees range from the publisher of the New York Times to the founder of Twitter.
You can download the book chapters for free.

Tags: books, media, communication

My best sources of 2010

Tags: links

New books arrived, just in time for the Christmas “break”.

Tags: books

“Normal people have jobs. Entrepreneurs are irrational.”

Tags: startups