Archive for the ‘Web Development’ Category
Monday, May 5th, 2008
This is the first of what I intend to have as an ongoing list of Ruby on Rails programming tips. These are as much for plugging my own memory holes as they are for the general Googlejuice. Each should be a brief illustration of some technique on how to accomplish ...
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Monday, April 7th, 2008
Migrated to WordPress 2.5 this evening, which was a nice and painless upgrade. In the process I discovered an old and useless plugin that had been left turned on, and disabling that pig made my whole site so much faster - it was killing me to find the reason why ...
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Friday, February 29th, 2008
There are several tools to compare files for changes out there for Mac OS X. I'll cover a few here. The first and most basic is diff. From the command line, it looks like this:
diff -u old_file new_file
Where of course old_file is the old suspected filename, and new_file is the ...
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Saturday, February 23rd, 2008
I am a recent convert to Last.fm, but know that this has been a long time coming.
I have hit Last.fm many times since they launched. But I always found it, well, kind of useless in the past. I wasn't grabbing very useful recommendations, and the usability of the software client ...
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Sunday, January 27th, 2008
Or in this case, judging a candidate by their web design! Let's face it - I am no political wag, and politics is something best left to other demagogues and zealotous pundits across the spectrum.
However, I can claim passable knowledge in double bass, and claim a rudimentary knowledge of ...
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