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There’s some real gold in Cheat. Like, nuggets. Ever since we got tagged by mustache it’s been just wild.Ever wonder how to make hot chocolate? We’ve got a tasty recipe.Need some night time reading to go along with your coc...
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GitHub is a pretty fun site to work on, I’m not gonna lie. On more than one occasion, we thought it would be pretty cool to setup a service allowing public projects to receive donations.Sounds like an ItchPledgie being the venerable servi...
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Surely, by now, you’ve heard of GitHub. (Don’t call me surely.) It’s totally the Indiana Jones of repository hosts. Feel free to stalk Pj and I to see what we’re up to. Blogging be damned!If you haven’t heard of GitH...
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Very recently, Simon Harris had an idea: nil? for Ambition. Tasty sugar.Let’s figure out what it takes to makeUser.select { |x| x.nil? }behave just likeUser.select { |x| x == nil }in Ambition.Short and SweetSimon&#821...
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It’s funny, really. All these people walking around, talking about Ambition. “Oh, Ambition? Yeah, pretty cool.” “Ambition? Impedance mismatch.” “I’m happy with SQL-92 the way it is, thank you very much.&#8...
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And money for nothing. Or something like that? Sorry, Mark Knopfler. I’ll pay more attention next time.Anyways, let us be painfully aware that we can get Atom feeds for free. Not as in beer or speech, but as in ‘zero lines of code.&...
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j-j-j-jQuery. It’s on everyone’s lips, right? You love it or you hate it, or you’ve never tried it but you love it, or you’ve never tried it but you super-hate it. Yeah, we know.Well, PJ and I launched FamSpam a bit ago a...
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In a timely holiday manner, we present to you a short list of will_paginate resources. Please enjoy responsibly.SightingsSince its inception, millions of people have paginated billions of records using will_paginate. A few notable example...
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Seriously, I think I have something against Rails’ lib directory. We jumped from keeping gems in lib to vendor/gems back in March. Then we jumped from keeping generic Rake tasks in lib/tasks to Sake. Now we’re gonna jump again.Hackin...
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I’ve come to realize how anti-web 2.0 this blog really is. Why are we, the authors, doing all the work?! Where is the user generated content? How can we pretend to be Rails developers when we waste our time writing all these blog posts!No ...
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