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Posts from February 2006

Rails 1.1 is coming…

…and its a doozy. It has a load of new features. Some of the main features include polymorphic associations, “through” associations, and RJS templates.
In personal Rails news, I have failed miserably trying to get i2 setup on my rimuhosting account. I think its time to try instiki on dreamhost, or maybe some […]


Google Calendar?

Maybe its for real this time. Paul Stone did the original snooping in the Gmail code which turned up links with the mysterious “calendar for you and the world”. Lets up this is more like gmail or maps and less like google reader or pages.


NFJS Milwaukee - Day One

The No Fluff Just Stuff tour kicked off today. I made it down to Milwaukee in time, despite a frantic search for my keys that ended with finding them in my wife’s jacket (of course). After the registration and intro from Jay, I went over to see Stuart’s talk on Spring Dependancy Injection. […]


Malcolm Gladwell is blogging

Malcolm Gladwell, the author of The Tipping Point and Blink, is now blogging.
I noticed in the past day or two, he went from a nasty white-text on black background theme to the much nicer theme he has now. He also went in and added line breaks to this post, which was pretty […]


MacBook Pro battery life - 2.5 hours?

So I’m contemplating getting a MacBook Pro pretty soon, but if the reports of 2.5 hours of battery life are accurate I may have to reconsider.
Granted, the main benchmark that is getting a lot of attention is a worst case scenario, where the guy didn’t prep the battery and turned off hard […]


CSS is Real Code, So Treat it as Such

It should be obvious, but its easy to forget for some of us coming from the “real” languages used on the server side. For instance, I never considered indenting my CSS based on parent/child selectors until I read this article. Why not? It makes perfect sense. We indent for clarity and […]


Ajaxian provides more traffic then del.icio.us/popular?

Well, it might just be one data point, but the guys at alwaysbeta saw more traffic from our post on their lightbox mod then from getting on the front page of del.icio.us/popular.

My theory is that noone really browses delicious for random sites - its primarily a service used by nerds, and as nerds […]


Quick Tip: Host Two Different Version Control Systems

I recently set up subversion to complement my cvs repository for version control. I ported all my personal apps over, but one nice benefit I didn’t anticipate was the ability to keep client projects or open source projects in my own repository at the same time.
For instance, I had a project for a client […]


Sql standards - how exactly did this get so f’ed up?

Lets say you want to get the first n number of rows from a result set, to do pagination or because you don’t care about the rest of the rows or whatever. You would think that there would be some relatively standard way defined in sql, and then the database vendors would all try […]


Rails Conf opens up 150 more seats

If you missed the mad rush on Rails Conf registration (400 seats sold out in less then a week), run, don’t walk, to the registration site. They have opened up 150 more seats. I wouldn’t be surprised if it sold out today.
side note: I think the banner on the front page takes the […]


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