- The Rails Way: Tracks: Part 1 — Various good tips on avoiding acts_as macros…
Tagged as: ruby rails rubyonrails programming metaprogramming - New Statesman – City of illusions — "The map is an idealisation, a beautiful illusion of symmetry and grace. It gives form and order to the formless and disordered appearance of the capital." – Peter Ackroyd in the New Statesman, on the exhibition of London’s Maps at the BL.
Tagged as: maps cartography culture peterackroyd london cities planning urban architecture - Liminal Existence: Announcing Jabber::Simple — Dead simple Jabber library for ruby
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- Basic User Authentication in Rails | aidanf.net — I can never have too many authentication crib sheets…
Tagged as: authentication rails ruby programming howto - Pete Lacey’s Weblog :: The S stands for Simple — "I trust that the guys who wrote this have been shot. It’s not even internally consistent. And what’s with all this HTTP GET bindings. I thought GET was undefined."
Tagged as: rest webservices api architecture software - Category:Alcoholic Beverages – Achewiki — Alcoholic Beverages are a major part of the Achewood scene. All of the major characters (save Philippe) are known to indulge in alcohol, and each character’s choice of beverage often serves to reveal a bit about their personality.
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- tow.com » MsgFiler — MsgFiler is a plug-in for Apple Mail which quickly files emails into existing mailbox folders.
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- The Secret of Great Bread: Let Time Do the Work – New York Times — An ultra-simple recipe for breadmaking that replaces kneading with slow, long fermentation.
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- po-ru.com: Klingon in Ruby — Sometimes I think Paul is obsessive about Unicode.
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- Five Usability Challenges of Web-Based Applications — (by Jared Spool)
Tagged as: usability web design article userexperience - Colbert Calls it Quits – The Colbert Report — Made me laugh out loud at my desk this morning. "The people have spoken, and apparently they’re tired of freedom".
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- Daring Fireball: Markdown Syntax Documentation — After a year or two of being completely sold on Textile, I’m really thinking that there’s a lot to this Markdown lark. Namely, readability
Tagged as: markdown formatting syntax text processing - .c( whytheluckystiff )o. — Seeing Metaclasses Clearly — _why on Ruby Metaclasses – providing a bit of clarity.
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