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I'm a big fan of GTD, which stands for Getting Things Done and is an approach to getting organized at work, at home, and in you life in general. You are supposed to keep track of all tasks you are supposed to do, in their respectful contexts.

By following the GTD principles, you can radically reduce the amount of stress in your life just by knowing exactly what you have to do, when you can do it, and most importantly - that you're not forgetting anything that needs to be done.

I'm not going to talk about the GTD theory here anymore, and just would like to share how I process information (tasks, reporting to other people, etc) at my workplace. This system proved to be effective and easy to use. At least for me :)

I use 3 tools: my monitor, a calendar and a bunch of post-it-notes.

Here's a picture of how monitor looks like. And the explanation will follow:

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I have another project went live.

RightViewPro is a site for baseball fans, selling some pretty interesting baseball systems. The site is written completely in Rails, features rich admin interface, fully customizable thru admin panel, and features online shop with physical and downloadable products.

Cheers goes to WindUp Design team with whom I was working on the project.

I have made a little extension (just function redefinition, actually) to allow you to control the behaviour of :destroy parameter in acts_as_tree function in Rails. More info, and download file follows.

This extension redefines the default behaviour of acts_as_tree function
to allow you to override the :dependent option for your trees
The default value defined in Rails is :destroy, but sometime you might want to use
a different cascade delete logic, or don't use cascade deleted at all.

Usage:
1. put this file into /lib/active_record_ext/ folder inside your rails application
2. add the following string somewhere in the environment.rb file:
require 'active_record_ext/tree'

This fix implements patch submitted to Rails development site, but not yet implemented
in main trunk of Rails. More info available at this link.

This extension should work without problems on Rails 1.2x, but of course I can not be held responsible
for any damage/loss/etc it might cause.

Download the extension patch (2Kb)