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Some cracking comments about the needs of templating systems, and the development thereof. In particular: “Refactoring CSS is about making it more manageable, not shorter”
- err.the_blog.find_by_title(‘Be Dee Dee and Me’) — Nice introduction to test::spec from Chris; need to re-read this at some point.
Tagged as: testing bdd rails ruby rspec testspec - How to find the max row per group in SQL without subqueries – Xaprb — As with so many other SQL challenges, if you re-phrase the question, it’s easy to select the maximum or minimum row per group without subqueries. The key is to understand what you want, and to be able to word the problem in a way that translates from En
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- Mood-Lab — Mood-Lab Concept – comes highly recommended as a cheap DAC for things such as a Squeezebox…
Tagged as: dac audio hifi - Das Keyboard – The Blank Keyboard for Demanding Users. — Add to cart. No keycaps, built like a tank, $90… I’d take that over and Optimus any day.
Tagged as: keyboard hardware geek atc for:dotcode - Download MacFLAC 2.1.2 for Mac – MacFLAC is a GUI for FLAC audio codec – Softpedia — MacFLAC is a graphical frontend for FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec), developed using Applescript Studio.
Tagged as: mac osx flac audio codec software - Burningbird » Web 2.0 Beats up Web 1.0, Leaves Bloody Pulp — "In case you missed it, let me repeat this: we will be charging the owner of the bucket for 403s and 404s, since they consume system resources." S3 jumps the shark, mayhap?
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- macosxhints.com – A suite of shell scripts for FLACs and MP3s — Flac to MP3 with a single bash script. Just what the doctor ordered…
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- BernieCode » How to debug JavaScript with Visual Web Developer Express — Useful for work, at least.
Tagged as: ie javascript debug debugger debugging - collision detection: The roundest objects ever built by hand — "The most perfectly round objects ever made by humanity, flying through the void on one of the purest scientific quests ever." Wow.
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- Peter Van Dijck’s Guide to Ease » Blog Archive » The top 10 presentations on scaling websites: twitter, Flickr, Bloglines, Vox and more. — Simon is right: nice to have all this lot in one plsace.
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- Denis Darzacq :: Portfolios :: La chute — They’re not falling. At least, not as high as you think. Wonderful composition n this photos.
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- tourb.us blog » Flickr + ruby: Not quite picture perfect — Fixing up the Flickr.rb library.
Tagged as: flickr ruby photos api - A Collection of Word Oddities and Trivia — What it says on the tin.
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