- Rossignol » The Grim And The Dumb — Two lovely McLuhan quotations from jim
Tagged as: quotations marshallmcluhan - Removing Stale Rails Sessions — By default rails does not clear out stale sessions from the session store. To implement this feature I added the following small snippet of code.
Tagged as: rails ruby rubyonrails sessions - err.the_blog.find_by_title(‘Sessions N Such’) — Sessions in Rails are not black and white. Please stop treating them as such.
Tagged as: rails ruby rubyonrails sessions database - TrackMeNot Extension — This kind of thing always amuses me – clouding real data by making ghost-queries as background noise.
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- Surfin’ Safari – Blog Archive » The FOUC Problem — It is poor coding to access style/layout information repeatedly during the loading cycle of a page, because in order for the engine to supply you with an answer, it has to ensure that its layout and style are up to date.
Tagged as: browser web safari gecko webkit programming - Jon Kleinberg’s Homepage — My research is concerned with algorithms that exploit the combinatorial structure of networks and information.
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- Luke Redpath—Ruby, Rails and other Musings — Behaviour-driven development with rSpec. Looks like good stuff – I like the approach, but I’d have to sit down and work out some things from scratch. Still, well written, and I’m sold in principle. Now to find time to learn it…
Tagged as: ruby rails bdd tdd testing rspec - Functional Autonomy » Blog Archive » Will Wright Talk @ BAFTA — "Time Playing x Social Relevance = World Impact". Awesome, awesome stuff from Will Wright. Reading these notes alone makes me feel a possibility space expanding.
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Tagged as: statistics metrics web analysis - Gluttonous : Guide: Things You Shouldn’t Be Doing In Rails — Some of this is useful, some of it I don’t do already (hurrah), some of it I probably should stop doing. Useful point of reference, and perhaps handy when I come to refactor.
Tagged as: rails ruby rubyonrails guidelines bestpractice programming - CodeHighlighter – danwebb.net Code Dump – Trac — CodeHighlighter is a lightweight, unobstrusive and fully configurable script for displaying code examples highlighted in a way similar to the way many text editors highlight code. It weighs in at just under 4K.
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- post79 blog — Nice-looking photoblog
Tagged as: photography photoblog blog - The long road to simple: creating, debating, and iterating "Add an event" – Signal vs. Noise (by 37signals) — Sometimes there’s a lot more to simple than meets the eye.
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- The Elements of Style for Designers – Boxes and Arrows: The design behind the design — "Write with nouns and verbs, not with adjectives and adverbs. The adjective hasn’t been built that can pull a weak or inaccurate noun out of a tight place." – Thank you, EB White.
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- A List Apart: Articles: Where Am I? — Good navigation tells a story, and good stories have a beginning, middle, and end.
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- JavaScript textarea selection with mozilla — If a problem’s been solved, no point trying to solve it twice.
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- Nested with_scope — Probably the clearest, most useful explanation of with_scope so far
Tagged as: activerecord howto rails ruby rubyonrails - The Challenge of a Free Architecture — An inquiry into the solutions the architectural profession could offer to the human, psychological implications of the architecture and environments created with technologies which may result from current developments in immersive, interactive computer si
Tagged as: 3d architecture dissertation essay vr - stevenberlinjohnson.com: Five Things All Sane People Agree On About Blogs And Mainstream Journalism (So Can We Stop Talking About Them Now?) — if you’re writing an article or a blog post about this issue, and your argument revolves around one or more of these points — and doesn’t add anything else of substance — STOP WRITING. Pick a new topic. Move on. There’s nothing to see here.
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- Digerati Consulting: awstats on TextDrive — I’ll need to install this quite soon.
Tagged as: awstats hosting howto stats textdrive - The 11 Most Groundbreaking Controllers of All Time Feature on Gamepro.com — Groundbreaking is hardly the word I’d use; it’s a rather uninspiring list, and the copy is dreadfully average. But into del.icio.us it goes, anyhow…
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- Adhesive – Red Alt — Make WordPress posts sticky. Useful for pretending it’s a CMS
Tagged as: blog cms plugin wordpress - July 2006 Roadtrip – a photoset on Flickr — James Duncan Davidson’s photos from his July roadtrip are breathtakingly beautiful. Proper geography from the US National Parks.
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