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Share anything. Anytime. Anywhere.
via Official Google Reader Blog by (author unknown) on May 06, 2008
... there's all sorts of information "out there" just waiting to be streamed, shared and otherwise consumed by you and your friends. Now you can finally show all of your Reader friends that awesome talking cat video you found, your favorite grilled trout recipe, or reviews of the best brunch place in your neighborhood -- all without a subscription.Here are a few new ways you can add and share ...
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Reinventing the Clipboard
via Coding Horror by (author unknown) on January 22, 2008
Over time, I've become something of a desktop mimimalist. Sure, I'll change a few settings to my liking, but I no longer spend a lot of time customizing my desktop configuration. I've learned that if the defaults aren't reasonably close to correct out of the box, then the software is probably doomed anyway. For most users
Shared by: Ionut, Piku, Amr Eldib, John, Randy, Robert, Glen Horton, Chandoo, Alex,
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Make sure your website works with or without www
via 456 Berea Street by Roger Johansson on February 12, 2008
Being a little lazy at times, I tend to skip typing "www." before the domain name when I enter a URL in my web browser. No, it doesn't save me a whole lot of typing, but bear with me here. Most of the time it works fine and I end up on the site I expect.But it really surprises me how often typing in a domain name without "www." in front results in one of the following:My browser displays an...
Shared by: Piku, Glen Horton, Mary Stamboulie,
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The New Most Important Ruby Book: O’Reilly’s “The Ruby Programming Language”
via Ruby Inside by Peter Cooper on February 26, 2008
Originally planned as a second edition to Ruby classic, Ruby In A Nutshell, The Ruby Programming Language is a new book by David Flanagan and Yukihiro Matsumoto (a.k.a. Matz - creator of Ruby) and published by O’Reilly. The book covers Ruby 1.8 and 1.9 and with its esteemed authors and technical approach, is sure to become a new “Bible” for Ruby developers. In programming book style, I’m...
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Handy dynamic rspec tip
via caboose - blog.caboo.se Home by Courtenay on January 21, 2008
Say you have an email validation regex that you want to quickly spec against a bunch of possible addresses, good and bad.Did you know rspec allows you to loop over arrays, dynamically creating describes and “it”s at will? I solved this tonight like so, with the help of cristi and some code of rick:
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Interesting Ruby Tidbits That Don’t Need Separate Posts #15
via Ruby Inside by Peter Cooper on February 04, 2008
Fixing Ruby & Rails’ slow performance with patches!Gleb Arshinov has put together an information packed post about how to speed up Ruby’s garbage collector, particularly to speed up Rails applications, as well as how to speed up Rails by applying a few interesting monkey patches. This is a compelling must read for performance junkies!The Guerilla’s Guide to Optimizing Rails...
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How To: Subversion Basics
via PaulStamatiou.com by Paul Stamatiou on February 07, 2008
John Ratcliffe-Lee writes in with a question about how to use Subversion to easily keep tabs on a frequently updated software CMS he wants to use. First off, what is Subversion? It’s a widely used version control system, or in layman’s terms Subversion is a way of keeping separate versions of a code base as it is developed. If a mistake is made, files can be rolled back to a previous version....
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Ask 37signals: How do you make screencast videos?
via Signal vs. Noise by Matt on February 11, 2008
Matt Radel writes:Hey guys, kudos on the new [Highrise] intro videos you just unveiled. Very well done. I’m going to be working on some for the new app my company just finished, and I was curious if you could drop any wisdom. I’ve got Snapz Pro and Final Cut Studio 2 at my disposal, but I’m really not sure where to start. Did you guys follow a tight process, or just kinda wing it? Any info...
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Waves: A New Rails-like Web Applications Framework
via Ruby Inside by Peter Cooper on February 29, 2008
Ruby Waves is a new Web application framework for Ruby, developed by Dan Yoder. On the surface, this makes it seem “Rails-like” but Waves is billing itself as a “next-generation” framework, a cutting edge Rails-inspired framework, if you will. Dan says that Waves is “not a better Rails” but the realization of an evolution of the ideas behind frameworks like Rails. For example, Waves...
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