- Content-only caching for Rails | Archives | codablog | Coda Hale — Could be exactly what I need. Rails caching is tricky.
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- Recursive Bee — > GO SAM GO. Delightful
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Tagged as: ruby rails rubyonrails pagination - ‘Comment is Free,’ but designing communities is hard — Nico Macdonald, mainly on the money, back in August.
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- Empathy Box :: 5 Principles For Programming —
Tagged as: toread programming methodology development - My Rails Toolbox — Awesome selection of tips, and some new plugins I’d not heard of. Lots to take stock off.
Tagged as: ruby rails rubyonrails plugin deployment architecture - Active Merchant – Trac — "The aim is to create a "Rails-esque" payment processor library which feels natural to ruby users and extracts as many parts as possible away from the user to offer a consistent interface no matter which gateway you end up using.
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- adaptive path » user expectations in a world of smart devices — Good stuff from Mike Kuniavsky – quite a while back, too.
Tagged as: design usability ubicomp interaction ux - LUCI Blog: UBICOMP 2006 : Bruce Sterling Keynote — "The majesty of the ideas and the lyricism of the language". Must download this at some point.
Tagged as: brucesterling design interactivity ubicomp video - ACM Queue – Silicon Superstitions – When we don’t understand a process, we fall into magical thinking about results. — People love mysteries and myths so much that they create them when an explanation seems too simple or straightforward.
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- Typesetting and paste-up, 1970 — Wonderful series of photographs and anootations on the typesetting process before computers. Mindboggling at times.
Tagged as: typesetting dtp design pasteup history type typography printing - Stevey’s Blog Rants — "’Urban Legend’ doesn’t refer to the message content; it refers to the transmission protocol." Bookmarked not for the agile stuff, but for this quotation.
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- The dashed line in use · Touch — Timo Arnall catalogues the various uses of the dashed line as visual metaphor.
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- Wired 14.10: Gizmondo’s Spectacular Crack-up — "He might have been the smartest criminal I’ve ever encountered […] but as smart as he was, being noticed seemed to mean more to him than staying out of jail." Remarkable story of the downfall of Stefan Eriksson and Gizmondo
Tagged as: gizmondo business journalism crime corruption ferarri bizarre - LRB | Thomas Jones : Diary — "I worked out, after twenty years, how to make the little man jump." – a nice tale of programming and doing bad things, despite the odd duff fact.
Tagged as: lrb games videogames programming play - Penguin Books – a photoset on Flickr — I know everyone’s bookmarking it, but these Penguin covers are really great, really inspiring; some seminal jacket design for many, many years. And, because they’re iconic, they degrade, wear, and age wonderfully.
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- The Inspiration Gallery – Wallpaper Patterns Index — Lots of potentially useful background textures (for websites).
Tagged as: background design graphics wallpaper web textures resource
- Lingua::Romana::Perligata — Perl for the XXIimum Century — Been looking for this for a while – as a classicist, it fills me with a silly delight if nothing else.
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- Module: ActiveSupport::CoreExtensions::Array::Conversions — Rails helper method of the day: to_sentence. Nicely executed!
Tagged as: rails rubyonrails english language - Robert Brook at Textdrive: Plain Text — All sorts of plain-text getting-things-done stuff.
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