The Blenderbox team was fortunate enough to go to SXSWedu this month in Austin, Texas, where we presented our work on NYC College Line, New York City’s new website for helping students get into and stay in college. To learn more about the project, you can check out our presentation online. While we were there, we...

Problem: I recently upgraded RVM, and now every time I cd into a directory with a .rvmrc file that has ruby_string="ruby-1.9.3", I get this warning: ruby-1.9.3-p392 is not installed. To install do: 'rvm install ruby-1.9.3-p392' Unfortunately, I’m too busy to install the newer patch level Ruby right now. Solution: Create a RVM alias that points...

@paul_irish recently tweeted about this ( I can’t find the tweet right now so I’ll just summarize ) The one nice thing about writing vanilla CSS is that when something breaks or needs to be tweaked you can pop open the dev tools and find the exact file and line where the offending CSS lives....

Setting up and maintaining deploy keys in github can be annoying. If you’re looking for a workaround, follow github’s instructions to deploy using your own personal SSH key. Moving forward, we’ll assume you’ve generated SSH keys on your local machine. Step 1: add a few lines to the ~/.ssh/config file on your local machine. We’re...

For security reasons, we don’t typically enable FTP on any of our servers. WordPress downloads core and plugins via FTP, so updating usually involves doing it locally and then deploying the changes. In most cases WordPress core isn’t included in the repo, so that has to be done manually : ssh into the server, wget...