Paul Gross’s Blog

Paul Gross

I’m a Principal Software Engineer in Seattle. I have previously worked at Rvvup, Ripple, Braintree/PayPal, and ThoughtWorks.

Useful unix tricks - part 4

August 16, 2011 5 minute read

Here is part 4 of my useful unix tricks series:

Migrated blog from Mephisto to WordPress

July 15, 2011 1 minute read

I used to host my blog with Mephisto. Mephisto is blogging software written in Ruby on Rails, and I really enjoyed it. Unfortunately, the Mephisto project ha...

Migrating from MySQL to PostgreSQL Slides

March 25, 2011 less than 1 minute read

The slides from my PgEast talk are now online: Migrating from MySQL to PostgreSQL.

PgEast Talk

March 14, 2011 less than 1 minute read

I’m giving a talk at the PgEast conference next week in NYC titled Migrating from MySQL to PostgreSQL.

select_or_label with custom form builder

March 28, 2010 1 minute read

In our web app, we have a common UI pattern: replacing select lists (eg. drop downs) with a label if there is only one item in the list. For example, when cr...