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Brent Sordyl | about 14 hours ago |
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Bookmooch helps readers trade old paperbacks and hardcover books
Since its launch in 2006, about 785,000 books have been traded on www.bookmooch.com. The site now has 74,000 members across 91 countries.
(tags: bookmooch web2.0)
Vista market share surges 256% in one year
Mac OS X market share surges 32% in one year. Vista grows by 256% in the same [...]
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Slobodan Kovacevic | about 14 hours ago |
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This is the first weekly condensed edition of my “This should be interesting” tumblelog. Every Sunday I will re-post most interesting posts here on the Icebergist.
Free Book: “Ruby on Rails 2.1 - What’s new”
Better Blockquotes - blockquotes CSS styling examples
Slife - free automatic time tracking for Mac
unfocus-history-keeper - back button enabling, deep linking, event driven [...]
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Jason Smith | about 14 hours ago |
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The application is made with PHP and javascript, and we use a MySQL database. Amazon’s S3 is used for storage of files upload by users. Prototype and script.aculo.us provides us with easy-to-use and sexy user interface. We use Zend Framework APIs to support web services (such as Google, Flickr, Yahoo and Amazon). Meanwhile, we [...]
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Andreas Roedl | about 14 hours ago |
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How to install the Ruby on Rails, Ajax, Html, Javascript development IDE Aptana and RadRails Eclipse Plugins on Ubuntu.
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Jörg Battermann | about 14 hours ago |
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Got whacky git status coloring like the one above in your Leopard terminal? Type
git config core.pager “less -FMRSXi”
.. and you’re all set.
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Darryl L. Pierce | about 14 hours ago |
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Apparently, the registration period already started. The class I had planned to take (BIO112) is already closed for lecture-based sections. The only one still available was the hybrid class (online discussions and in-person labs), so I grabbed a slot there. A few of the people from my BIO111 class said they would be taking the hybrid 112 so I probably already know the four others already registered. But I need to talk with my advisor first and make sure this class is necessary for my degree. Then I can petition to graduate this fall and be done with the first milestone.
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Eustáquio Rangel | about 15 hours ago |
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Ontem terminou mais uma turma do curso de Ruby da Object Training, cuja foto pode ser vista a em cima. Foi uma turma muito legal e quero agradecer a todos pela presena, pelas boas risadas e timo ambiente que tivemos. Espero que tenham aproveitado o curso e desejo um timo curso de Rails para todos que vo fazer.
Eu cheguei na Sexta em SP a convite do Mereghost, e fui conversar com uma galera muito legal a qual ele est incentivando para o uso de Ruby/Rails. Tomara que todos tenham aproveitado o papo, eu achei muito legal.
Eu, o Luiz Rocha e o Ronaldo Ferraz amos gravar o Po de Cast ao vivo, mas novamente a coisa no rolou. A esposa do Luiz passou mal (melhoras!) e o Ronaldo ficou enrolado com o Brasigo (carcoles, na Sexta noite!) e vamos ter que gravar via web mesmo. Algum dia a gente consegue gravar ao vivo, j que agora est mais fcil pois o Ronaldo est em SP.
Agora descansar algumas semanas. Apesar de ser bem legal, viajar todo Sbado cansa, ufa!
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Ezwan Aizat bin Abdullah Faiz | about 15 hours ago |
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aizatto: The brooding chessire smile isn't as deliciously evil tonight. Maybe next month.
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Jonathan Mulcahy | about 15 hours ago |
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With the price of Gas, many people are skipping their vacations. I've got some suggestions on how you can keep your vacation without going too far.
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Magnus Hjelm | about 16 hours ago |
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Förra söndagen spontanköpte jag domänen aapl.se. På ledig tid den senaste veckan har jag byggt en insamlare för nyheter om Apple skrivna på svenska. Resultatet ligger nu live på Aapl.se
Tanken är att man ska kunna surfa in på Aapl.se för att få en överblick av vad som händer i den svenska Apple-världen utan att behöva [...]
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Cairo Noleto | about 16 hours ago |
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Na última semana comecei a ler os livros Como transformar sua equipe no seu maior patrimônio e Caindo na Real.
O primeiro livro, Como transformar sua equipe no seu maior patrimônio, é sobre 8 lições que devemos ter não apenas a frente de uma empresa mas que devemos ter sempre ao lidarmos com as pessoas ao [...]
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Aaron Pfeifer | about 16 hours ago |
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This guy’s expression pretty much sums up my reaction whenever a new acts_as_* shows up in my RSS feed for AgileWebDevelopment plugins. As of today, there are 1,115 plugins listed there, 129 of which start with acts_as. That’s about 11.5% and I’m not even including ones like acts_as_hasselholf or acts_as_rickroll
acts_as_chuck_norris is [...]
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Rui Su | about 16 hours ago |
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前几天用 macport 装 git 的时候顺带升级了一下 svn,没想到原来的英文提示变成了乱码,莫非支持中文了?在 terminal 里面看上去超级不爽,但当时急事在身就没管。
今天搜了下,解决方法很简单...
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Cairo Noleto | about 16 hours ago |
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Muitos acham que usar Object-Relational Mapping (ORM) é fazer você não ter mais que escrever SQL dentro do códigos de sua linguagem preferida. É uma pena pensar assim, ORM é muito mais que isso e é muito mais difícil do que se parece.
Para se usar ORM, é necessário pensar Orientados a Objetos. Pensar que você [...]
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Glenn Verhalle | about 16 hours ago |
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Edge Rails now supports ‘Thin‘ when using script/server, which can be quite convenient ! More info here.
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Dave Grijalva | about 16 hours ago |
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After the disgraceful performance by the LA Times, here is funny or die to show us the proper way to provide embed tags. A simple button to push the tag right up into your clipboard. Very nice. Also, enjoy this hilarious interview with a classic American Gladiator.
See Malibu is a Champion and [...]
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John Mettraux | about 17 hours ago |
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On Monday 30th of June, we were lucky enough to have a presentation by Petia Wohed of the Information Systems Laboratory of the University of Stockholm (and Royal Institute of Technology).
Petia contacted me last year while she was reviewing OpenWFE[ja] (and other open source workflow systems) in the light of the workflow patterns. I already [...]
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Calle Dybedahl | about 17 hours ago |
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So, lately I have, in between playing WoW and writing for
femslash08, been binge-watching
Kim Possible (
it's Andy Weir's fault). It's surprisingly entertaining, and quite rich in jokes I'm not at all sure are actually aimed at their primary target audience.
I have also, of course, been looking for Kim Possible slash. That experience has been very similar to when I first started looking for Xena altfic some ten years ago. First, there is the incredible OTPness of it. Somewhere around 80% of KP slash is Kim/Shego, and I suspect something like that was Xena/Gabrielle back in the day. Second, there is the at least to me surprising underrepresentation of a pairing with pretty strong in-text support (Kim/Monique and Gabrielle/Aphrodite, respectively). Third, there is the astounding
length of many of the stories. Like, where you first look at the wordcount number and think "Hm, that's a pretty long story", and then you realise that wait, no, that number has
six digits, not five (I still remember being totally boggled when I realised that not only did Melissa Good's "Journey of Soulmates" series have quite a few parts, each part was an entire
novel). I mean, who the heck sits down and writes a story of almost half a million words? That's half again as long as
Lord of the Rings, just to give you something to compare with. Or about the same as Tolstoy's
War and Peace (depending on which language you read Tolstoy in), if you're more familiar with that. The mind, it boggles.
And of course most of it is crap, but
that is universal to all fandoms.
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Vidul Petrov | about 17 hours ago |
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Some of the more rarely used string methods:
str = "the tester"
str["tester"]
str[/\w+\s\w+/]
emulates
capitalize!
str[/(\w+)/] = ($1[0] - 32).chr
RDoc Documentation
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Ruslan Voloshin | about 17 hours ago |
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Спасибо! Я нашёл!
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Peter Jones | about 17 hours ago |
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Tripp-Reimer's
1996 paper The Dimensional Structure of Nursing Interventions has been sitting in my dsw - '
do something with' - pile for ages. Now reading Gardenfors I came across
multidimensional scaling and realised that Tripp-Reimer et al. have also
been there done that. They have been wearing the T-shirt for well over a decade.
Their paper begins with the evolution of nursing’s substantive structures and the emergence through the late 1960s to the early 1980s of a plethora of conceptual models
(including - but not mentioned Hodges’ model). According to Tripp-Reimer these models while clearly possessed of nursing credentials, they were not always produced as combined research and practice tools. They argue that this failure may have contributed to the rise of the metaparadigm of nursing, with the effect that:
‘At best, the metaparadigm myth provided a rationale and mechanism for the discipline to displace (transcend) the conceptual models.’ p.11.
Ah! So that would account for why Hodges' model (and other global conceptual frameworks) have languished in the lay-bye!
‘Currently, nursing conceptual models have limited utility beyond their historical importance. That utility is derived from the structures they can provide for nursing education programs. Analogously, they also provide a framework that is useful for beginning nurses, assisting them in cognitively framing a clinical situation. These models provide a map, stimulating the new nurse in a clinically familiar space.’ p.15.
The paper goes on to contrast the way these models are used
a-consciously by experts. I would suggest that there is a problem in nursing theory; or if not so severe as to be deemed a 'problem' then a tension at least. Educationalists (theorists) will rightly justify the case for nursing to be defined and boundaries set; otherwise, curricula will not support delivery of the desired learning experience, would lack focus and integrity in terms of evaluation of content and professional credibility.
Socio-politically professional groups need a sense of (group) identity. The intention to develop models – theories in order to delineate nursing and establish professional identity is, however, at odds with the practice objectives of holistic and (interdisciplinary) integrated health and social care. Nurses need conceptual models and spaces that extend -
from the outset - beyond the clinical situation.
It is the unfamiliar spaces
(patient, carer, community... occupied) that we must seek or at least be able to account for in assessment, planning, interventions, evaluation (research) and information governance. Clinical situations should certainly be
familiar within the bounds (latitude) of the curricula and including the match between what is taught and practical experience (practicum).
Health and social care, education and policy are constantly changing. Amid the rapid pace of
T-shirt slogan turnover tools such as
Hodges’ model retain their relevance for experts and beginners alike.
Tripp-Reimer, T., Woodworth, G., McCloskey, J.C., Bulechek, G. (1996). The dimensional structure of nursing interventions. Nursing Research; 45(1):pp.10-17.T-shirt image source Copyright © 2001 - 2008 The CELDirect Group: http//www.blazingclothing.co.uk/
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Dan Higham | about 17 hours ago |
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danhigham posted a photo:

If Carlsberg made Granddads, they'd probably be the best Granddads in the world! My Granddad, died 4th July 2008, rest well, we'll all miss you...
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Marcos Abel | about 18 hours ago |
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Sobre Rails 2.1 sólo puedo decir que es más de lo mismo, pero mejor. Podéis comprobarlo leyendo el libro gratuíto que el amigo Carlos Brando ha tenido a bien publicar y que recopila todas las novedades de esta versión.
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Hongli Lai | about 19 hours ago |
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HOLY COW!!! After more than 10 years*, she’s back! Who am I talking about? She refers to herself as “the perfect, invi…” aw whatever, I’ll let her do the talking:
Why is Slayers so great? I think this comment worded it the best:
Oh, shush Zaeris. Slayers was one of THE most popular titles of the 90’s [...]
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Claus Christensen | about 20 hours ago |
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Ezwan Aizat bin Abdullah Faiz | about 20 hours ago |
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aizatto: Maybe nothing. Maybe everything.
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Alan C Francis | about 20 hours ago |
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“In 2007, with oil at $82 and gas nearing $3, Congress finally approved the first big increase in fuel-efficiency standards in 32 years, requiring the fleet average to reach 35 m.p.g. by 2020. That will save one million barrels a day by 2020, but onetime CAFE opponents like Mr. Castle now say they wish that Congress had acted sooner. Since the 1980s, fuel efficiency has flatlined at 24 m.p.g., while vehicle weight has jumped more than 25 percent and horsepower has nearly doubled. In Europe, on the other hand, fuel efficiency currently stands at 44 m.p.g. and is slated to hit 48 m.p.g. by 2012.”
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American Energy Policy, Asleep at the Spigot - NYTimes.com
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Alan C Francis | about 20 hours ago |
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“Representative John D. Dingell, the powerful Democrat from Detroit who chairs the House Energy and Commerce Committee, argues — as he did more than a decade ago — that tightening CAFE standards unfairly penalizes domestic automakers while rewarding foreign rivals who make more small cars.
Mr. Dingell, who has defended the automakers fiercely during his 52 years on Capitol Hill, decided to support the stronger CAFE standards last year. But he does not apologize for his longtime stance. “The American auto industry has sold the cars people wanted,” he says. “You’re going to blame the auto industry for that or the American consumer? He likes it sitting in his driveway, he likes it big, he likes it safe.”
A much more effective approach would be to simply raise taxes on gasoline, Mr. Dingell says, because higher prices are the easiest way to change buying habits. Some Europeans agree with this, noting that policy changes engineered through taxation can alter consumer choices without impeding economic growth.
Consumers overseas might not like higher taxes on gasoline, but they’ve adapted, says Jeroen van der Veer, chief executive of Royal Dutch Shell, the European energy giant. “A society can work, can function and can grow even at higher fuel prices,” he says. “It’s a way of life — you get used to it.”
In Mr. van der Veer’s native Holland, for example, gasoline sells for more than $10 a gallon, with $5.57 of that going to taxes. Even in Britain, which has substantial North Sea production, gasoline sells for $8.71 a gallon.”
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American Energy Policy, Asleep at the Spigot - NYTimes.com
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Alan C Francis | about 20 hours ago |
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“Home to only 4 percent of the world’s population, the nation slurps up about a quarter of the planet’s oil — and Americans’ daily use is nearly twice the combined consumption of the Chinese and Indians, according to an annual energy survey published by BP, the British oil giant.”
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American Energy Policy, Asleep at the Spigot - NYTimes.com
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Andrew Koster | about 20 hours ago |
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Nick says go see Lagwagon in Rimouski on September 8th with MxPx, Only Crime, and TAT.
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Myles Eftos | about 20 hours ago |
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Spurred on by Gary’s discussion on the number of micro-blogging sites around, the “Is it Distributed?” question made we wonder if we are going about this wrong. Cameron Adams was right when he said there is only one social network, so why are we flicking between a large number of them? Why aren’t we running [...]
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beenhero | about 21 hours ago |
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很多网站的成功不是因为它们的产品做有多出色,却是着着实实捕捉了人性的特点,我列了些:
性
懒
猎奇
虚荣
游戏
猜疑
迷信
偷窥
胡搞
自我满足
爱受夸奖
and next … We gonna think about and make innovation.
但不可否认的,很多会带来负面影响,虽然这些人性特点天然存在,但通过互联网这个工具,被放大后带来的问题是非常之大的,比如网络游戏戕害了不少少年儿童,那么作为企业家、作为商人,商业价值与社会道德冲突的时候,该如何作出选择?没有答案,只有自己心里的底线 :\
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Bob Martens | about 21 hours ago |
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I need to apologize. I will be bringing the next part in my Rails Deployment Tutorial soon, hopefully the beginning of this week.
Sorry for the time delay, just gotten caught up in too many things at once.
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Robert Bousquet | about 21 hours ago |
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In an effort to simplify the billing process for our customers we have recently completed our very own custom built online payment application. We are now a web design company that can accept credit or check cards…through our website. Who knew?
The process is very simple and allows you to enter your contact, invoice (optional) and billing information. Once you submit the payment you will be presented with a receipt page which you can print (or save as PDF) as well as an email that details the transaction for safe keeping. The link to “Make A Payment” is located at the bottom of every page of our website.
We are currently in the process of developing full account management features for our customers including estimates, invoices, payments, financing and online ordering. As time passes you will see how all of these applications add up to be a more accountable and pleasant experience when working with us.

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Cameron Yule | about 22 hours ago |
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Went to see My Bloody Valentine at the Barrowlands with Sarah and my ears are still recovering. The following video is from a section of the gig that came in the middle of their last song, and is called ‘the holocaust’.
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Juan Pablo Ortiz Arechiga | about 22 hours ago |
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Cloc es una herramienta hecha en perl para contar lineas de código.
Lo grande de todo es que tiene la habilidad de detectar y separar por lenguaje de programación, ademas de distinguir los resultados para que estos no sean inflados por lineas blancas o comentadas.
Estaba acostumbrado a algún simple script que contara los totales, cuando mucho [...]
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Tim Riley | about 22 hours ago |
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tuneage:
Lilofee - “Lock and Key”
We don’t know much about Lilofee, except that they make excellent electro pop, listing their influences as 60s girl bands, 80s dark pop, and 90s industrial.
Don’t just check out this sweet tune from lilofree, but also head over to tuneage for regular doses of new, interesting music!
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Ezwan Aizat bin Abdullah Faiz | about 22 hours ago |
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aizatto: Finished "Stranger In A Strange Land"
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Eric Mill | about 22 hours ago |
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MB and I went to the Murakami exhibit exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum today. It’s only running until June 13, so if you’re here, get there quick.

There’s some compelling stuff there, some more lurid and some more disturbing than these. I don’t know if I saw anything I’d qualify as “simply beautiful”, in any peaceful kind of way. There was always some non-innocent quality to the work. This also makes sense, as I just noticed his website has on the front page him quoted as saying “I express hopelessness.” I very much appreciated it.
And now, a commercial of some kind that features minutes of his lighter work brought into “3D”, kind of.
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Carlos Brando | about 22 hours ago |
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É normal no mundo do desenvolvimento de software discussões sobre qual tecnologia é melhor ou pior e normalmente isto gera muito flame war, mas existe uma coisa que todos os desenvolvedores (seja ele de java, ruby, php, …) concordam: o Internet Explorer 6 demorou para sumir da face da Terra.
Por isto também entro na campanha [...]
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Rob Sanheim | about 23 hours ago |
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Some long overdue releases of cap_gun and log_buddy - both have been updated to version 0.0.5. Both are now available as gems on github.com/relevance as well as from rubyforge.
CapGun gives you super simple deployment notifications from Capistrano. LogBuddy gives you a log helper through all objects, and can also log the name of [...]
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Gabriel Medina | about 23 hours ago |
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InvalidAuthenticityToken and Dojo Toolkit
... or how to add your authenticity token to a hand made form in Rails
Finally decied to take on Dojo
Hello again, I started playing with the
Dojo Toolkit, and I really liked it, first thing I found was that it used to be incompatible with
Prototype/
Script.aculo.us, but that seems to have been fixed, just add a little config for dojo before loading it, and that gets the job done, also you should not forget to load dojo toolkit before loading prototype/script.aculo.us.
Googled with no luck, just Toolbocks
Well, I shall tell you that before going this path I obviously Googled for a ready made gem and/or plug in that I could use to get dojo on Rails, and found
Dojo Toolbocks plug in, but reading the documentation it requires you to add the engines plug in, that I am not really fond of, and that was an immediate turn off...
I don't like the engines plug in, do you?
Also I looked for more documentation about it but it seems all it does is just load the dojo toolkit, so I went on to try and build a plug in that would do that without needing the engines plug in.
dojo_support plugin ina repository near you soon
I will publish this new plug in that will be named dojo_support, when it's ready for a beta test, and that means writing a couple of helpers for views and also a render similar to the Rails' javascript RJS render.
The InvalidAuthenticityToken Error
While developing the code for a helper to create remote form tags that work with dojo, I came into a problem creating the forms, where rails complains about an Invalid Authenticity Token. This is required by the ProtectFromForgery feature of Rails.
Disabled protection? I don't think so.
I had two choices, first, disable protect from forgery in the controllers for actions handling remote dojo forms (not a choice really), second was adding the needed authenticity token to the form, that is generate the form code and include the authenticity token as a hidden field just like regular Rails' generated forms.
This is where I was stuck, I googled without luck finding only posts that told me to add
protect_from_forgery :except => :my_method
as shown in
RequesForgeryProtection Class Methods to disable forgery protection for specific methods but this was something I didnt feel users should do.
The Discovery of form_authenticity_token
I finally found where this protection is in the Rails tree, and found in
RequestForgeryProtection that you can reach the token with
form_authenticity_token
The discovery of request_forgery_protection_token
And looking around in options_for_ajax, I found you can get the name of the field in the form with
request_forgery_protection_token
I found it in
ActionView::Helpers::PrototypeHelper (use the show source link in the options_for_ajax method).
So, how do you use them?
So to end this long post, to prevent InvalidAuthenticityToken forms created by hand just add the following line to your .html.erb form:
<input name="<%= request_forgery_protection_token.to_s %>" type="hidden" value="<%= form_authenticity_token %>" />
And you're on track again.
I hope I have the skills to make Dojo as easy as Prototype/Script.aculo.us
Hope this helps someone, of course this will be included in the helpers of the new dojo_support plugin which I expect to publish in a couple of weeks, with the target of making the use of dojo+rails+RDJS(Rails Dojo Javascript) as easy as prototype+sriptaculous+RJS.
Greetings everyone.
Gabriel Medina.
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Ryan Bigg | about 23 hours ago |
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Thanks to the guys at NetFox (Yuji or Adam) for the name for this post.
Tomorrow I go to the dentist to have empty wallet (read: root canal) treatment (hereafter referred to as EWT). My tooth that broke at Railscamp has a serious bout of decay in it no thanks to me not caring for my [...]
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John Wulff | about 23 hours ago |
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Peter Jackson | about 23 hours ago |
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My friend and colleague Theo Nguyen-Cao posted on his blog about considering graduate school. He inspired me to dig up some reflections on my B-School experience and my startup lifestyle.
I’ve learned a few things working on startups while going to B-School. Here’s just one:
Creation of value means more than selling more
Delivering value to shareholders is often cited as a business objective. Certainly that is a component of what value creation entails, but there’s more to it. There are elements of value creation that include building better products for customers, aligning organizational and social objectives, and reducing impacts to other parties.
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Bill Heaton | about 24 hours ago |
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@zuno Thanks for sending links my way!
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Dave Grijalva | about 24 hours ago |
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The LA Times website posted a clever short video poking fun at the new hands free cellphone law. In typical online video style, they provide an object/embed tag that you can use to stick this video on your own site. As seems typical of online versions of dead tree style publications, they just [...]
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Nick Sieger | 1 day ago |
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Well, the recent Ruby 1.8.6 issues, including an apparent memory leak problem that was plaguing my blog’s mongrel caused me to evaluate what should have been obvious long ago. That I should put my money where my mouth is and upgrade to JRuby on Glassfish using JRuby-Rack and Warbler.
And so it’s done.
I’m now running the blog in Glassfish V2 with JRuby 1.1.1 and JRuby-Rack 0.9 (facilitated by Warbler 0.9.9), along with activerecord-jdbc-adapter 0.8.2. Here’s to dog-fooding!
(Now if only I could find a situation painful enough to force up to re-skin this blog beyond the ancient Typo azure theme...)
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Nolan Eakins | 1 day ago |
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