fleshyorgans

This is a sort of code analysis and something I discovered with :include usage in Rails. (This is in rails 1.1.6, so YMMV. I believe the latest Rails opts to use inner SELECTs rather than JOIN statements.
Also, this is kind of long.)

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Thought this was a little silly, but it generated a lot of discussion about precedence, short-circuiting of conditionals, and the value of syntactic sugar.
http://pastie.caboo.se/146194

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Say you’re working on something that uses acts_as_attachment. Also say that the person who wrote it decided that all the different models’ attachments would save in the same place. Also suppose that you want to change the file location of all those uploads.
Well, here’s a quick and dirty migration that’ll save you from moving files […]

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Posting this cause I wan’t aware and the only other post I found was dated January.
Since Paypal purchased Verisign they are discontinuing the pfpro extension to PHP. And in fact, what I’m reading is that Sept 2009 is the end of life for that functionality, meaning requests will not work beyond that point.
For sites using […]

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My work machine recently developed the click of death, so I had to get a new hard drive and reinstall everything. Just in case this happens again, and in case anyone else is interested, below is the list of things I install in addition to the standard Ubuntu installation:

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