Josh Bavari's Ramblings

Jan 24, 2014
Grunt.js Orchestration & Organization of Applescript Actions

Lately I've learned a little about AppleScript. If you're not familiar, I suggest reading the AppleScript Language Guide to get a little more background information about it. In a nutshell, however, its basically a scripting language developed by Apple to do Inter-application communication using AppleEvents (yes, I used the language from the Wiki page).
Jan 14, 2014
Making Rails and Postgres Arrays Play Nice

Lately I've had a small need to store an array of string values in a Postgres array instead of making foreign tables and dealing with the fun ActiveRecord fancies there are to play with.
Dec 17, 2013
Dont be a grunt

I've posted some slides I presented at the OKC Javascript User Group over Grunt.js titled Dont be a grunt, use grunt.
Dec 4, 2013
Automating Local IP Lookup With Grunt and Node

In the last few write-ups I've done lately (see the servers post and the phonegap builds post), I've been requiring the user to pass in the IP or the host in the command line. That works and all, but I usually have to go look up that ip using the good ol 'ifconfig' command.
Dec 3, 2013
Automating Jasmine Tests With Grunt Karma

I find myself lately in falling in love unit testing in Javascript with the Jasmine framework. It's really upped my trust levels that I've been writing lately.
Dec 2, 2013
Automating Underlying Mobile Infrastructure With Grunt

I'm obsessed with automating some of the tasks that I find myself repetitively doing. I don't know about you, but I hate doing the same thing over and over - it's boring and pointless
Nov 30, 2013
Automating Phonegap Builds with Grunt

One big thorn in my side lately has been getting our Phonegap/Cordova builds out to our team in a timely manner or just getting our mobile app environment set up. Currently our process involves changing a few files up, running some command line prompts, and then hitting a few different IDE's to crank out builds to manually upload to Testflight (www.testflightapp.com).
Oct 26, 2013
Rev Up Your Rails Engine For Static Assets

Lately we've had the desire to move some of our rails services / middleware from our main web project to Rails Engines as gems to help us scale out and reuse that functionality across servers and sites.

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Making Rails and Postgres Arrays Play Nice Lately I've had a small need to store an array of string values in a Postgres array instead of making foreign tables and dealing with the fun ActiveRecord fancies there are to play with.

Dont be a grunt I've posted some slides I presented at the OKC Javascript User Group over Grunt.js titled Dont be a grunt, use grunt.

Automating Jasmine Tests With Grunt Karma I find myself lately in falling in love unit testing in Javascript with the Jasmine framework. It's really upped my trust levels that I've been writing lately.

Automating Underlying Mobile Infrastructure With Grunt I'm obsessed with automating some of the tasks that I find myself repetitively doing. I don't know about you, but I hate doing the same thing over and over - it's boring and pointless

Rev Up Your Rails Engine For Static Assets Lately we've had the desire to move some of our rails services / middleware from our main web project to Rails Engines as gems to help us scale out and reuse that functionality across servers and sites.

Making Rails and Postgres Arrays Play Nice

Lately I've had a small need to store an array of string values in a Postgres array instead of making foreign tables and dealing with the fun ActiveRecord fancies there are to play with.

Dont be a grunt

I've posted some slides I presented at the OKC Javascript User Group over Grunt.js titled Dont be a grunt, use grunt.

Automating Jasmine Tests With Grunt Karma

I find myself lately in falling in love unit testing in Javascript with the Jasmine framework. It's really upped my trust levels that I've been writing lately.

Automating Underlying Mobile Infrastructure With Grunt

I'm obsessed with automating some of the tasks that I find myself repetitively doing. I don't know about you, but I hate doing the same thing over and over - it's boring and pointless

Rev Up Your Rails Engine For Static Assets

Lately we've had the desire to move some of our rails services / middleware from our main web project to Rails Engines as gems to help us scale out and reuse that functionality across servers and sites.