Rails slugs - Knowledge Base. Apparently "slug" is the preferred term for the hyphenated title in place of an ID in pretty urls. Who knew? Make it a lot easier to search for different implementation ideas though.
Rails slugs - Knowledge Base. Apparently "slug" is the preferred term for the hyphenated title in place of an ID in pretty urls. Who knew? Make it a lot easier to search for different implementation ideas though.
“All the references I was working from had it wrong including awdwr 2nd Ed. sigh”— @twitter
“Spent an hour wrestling with rails only to discover they renamed ActionMailer::Base.serversettings to smtpsettings.”— @twitter
High Scalability | Building bigger, faster, more reliable websites. Scalability is the talk of the town with new apps going through very public growing pains on the regular as they struggle to cope with exponential growth. It's about time someone started aggregating this knowledge.
Ajax and Flex Data Loading Benchmarks. Demo app from James Ward comparing performance of various data loading techniques. Mostly intended for showing off Flex performance vs. Ajax, but the Ajax stats are interesting in and of themselves.
Flex, Flash and Apollo for Rich Internet Applications. Adobe evangelist James Ward giving a Google tech talk. Lots of detail and clarification of the generally quite fuzzy picture of what's possible with these technologies.
“Ugh, I gorged myself on web 2.0hhh, now I have to go and sleep it off.”— @twitter
“Wondering about the twit-iquette of "following" net-celebrities. Feels a bit stalky.”— @twitter
“This twitter business seems like fun, but it's a bit rough around the edges, eh?”— @twitter
“Late to the twitter party, but I brought a bottle!”— @twitter
Code Like a Pythonista: Idiomatic Python. Good refresher on Python style, idioms and quirks. Was just thinking I could do with something like this today when reading the Django masterclass slides.
Rose&Camellia | NIGORO. Crazy amazing slapping game
Making Rails Go Vroom. More rails performance criticism / tips.
Peter Seibel talking at Google. Practical Common Lisp author talks about polyglot-ism and programming language choice.
Learn Haskell in 10 minutes - HaskellWiki. See what all the fuss is about.
How to configure Synergy in six steps. Looks interesting. Use one keyboard and mouse one two machines KVM-switch-style only via the network.
SIGPIPE 13 ยป Fighting comment spam. Spam prevention techniques by Allan Odgaard, the author of Textmate.
DVD Authoring | Linux Journal. Fairly comprehensive tutorial on authoring DVDs via the command line
Lists And Lists: Java Version. A lisp machine inside a z-machine? Only touched the surface but I can almost taste the recursion already.
http://tonypa.pri.ee/vectors/start.html. 2D vector maths for flash.
Visit the archive if you wish to skip merrily through time in a devil may care fashion.