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Make sure your website works with or without www
via 456 Berea Street by Roger Johansson on February 11, 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...
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Merb Monday: "That's the spirit"
via Just In Time by Justin Pease on February 10, 2008
Tidbits from #merb for the week of Feb 4 - Feb 10.A lot of the conversation this week revolved around the pre 0.9 release. Many of the questions involved bugs or other issues that one can expect in a pre-release. In general I didn't include them as they will quickly be outdated and likely be of little on going value.Q: How do I install (freeze) gems within my application?A: Navigate to the...
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Ask 37signals: How do you make screencast videos?
via Signal vs. Noise by Matt on February 10, 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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acts_as_conference 2008 - Day 2 Report
via Miles to go ... by arungupta on February 09, 2008
acts_as_conferenceDay 2 started with breakfast ... yaaay! I had to hunt for breakfast yesterday.Robertstarted the day by asking some questions and here are the responses:100% will come back if organized next yearFri/Sat is good$100 Price is goodGot 60-70 submissions so the selection process was difficultSome of the reasons people came to this conference:Mickey MouseSpeaker lineupTopicsWant to...
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Interesting Ruby Tidbits That Don’t Need Separate Posts #16
via Ruby Inside by Peter Cooper on February 08, 2008
ruby-prof 0.6.0 ReleasedCharlie Savage wants to get the word out about the latest release of ruby-prof, 0.6.0. ruby-prof is an amazing Ruby profiler that’s both faster and more detailed than the standard “profile” library that comes with Ruby. The biggest news is that 0.6.0 supports Ruby 1.9, and Charlie suggests that ruby-prof may even become an official part of Ruby in the future....
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GlassFish v3 Ruby Gem - New Home on RubyForge
via Miles to go ... by arungupta on February 07, 2008
GlassFishv3 Gem allows JRuby-on-Rails application to be launched in GlassFishv3 server. It provides a robust alternative to WEBrick andMongrelfor development and deployment of your JRuby-on-Rails applications.TheGem was originally announced hereand then updated here.All along, the Gem was living a nomadic life on download.java.net.Now it has found a permanent home on...
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Ruby Cheat Sheets
via Ruby Inside by Peter Cooper on February 07, 2008
Ruby is an incredibly easy language to learn, but it’s still often necessary to look up something we’ve forgotten. Often this can be done by using Google or using any Ruby books we have on our shelves, but sometimes it’s handy to refer to a simpler set of notes, such as a “cheat sheet.” Quite a few Ruby developers have made cheat sheets for Ruby, and this post attempts to cover the most...
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How To: Subversion Basics
via PaulStamatiou.com by Paul Stamatiou on February 06, 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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backup_fu Makes Amazon S3 Backups Redonkulous
via YARB - Home by admin on February 06, 2008
Redonkulously easy, that is.Your rails app has been humming along nicely for several months, then suddenly it hits you, wait, are we backing up our database / uploaded files yet?Well, of course you are. But for those who prefer to live on the edge, launching an app without a well-articulated backup strategy, I give you backup_fu.It’s a rails plugin, invoked via rake tasks. After installing...
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Billing on the Brain: Credit Card Storage
via Dynamite - The Err Free Weblog by PJ Hyett on February 06, 2008
FamSpam is a subscription-based service, so we had to come up with a solution for billing customers every month. One solution would be to mail them monthly invoices like a credit card statement. The other, not completely insane solution, is to just store their credit card information and use it when it comes time to bill them each month.How does one store credit card info?You have two options:...
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