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Dynamic, Search-based RSS feeds
“Users have the ability to search for a lot of different information, and I needed to provide them with a way to save that search via an RSS feed. To see how I went about performing basic search, see here.
In my controller, I started by adding the ability to respond_to rss…”
Posted in Development, Server.
Mibbit is an awesome example of a guy who found a niche, really thought about what it was missing, and filled it expertly. Every time I see this app, I’m secretly jealous I didn’t write it.
Github — social media meets coding. Instantly makes rubyforge look like tucows.com circa 1996. A good example of filling a need you didn’t know existed. Getting insight into others’ development projects via ‘following’ developers and projects — or via RSS — turns out to be oddly addictive, and turns up neat little things like this and this, which couldn’t have really existed before the github model except as a fractured melodramatic irc log somewhere. I don’t have a pressing need for any private repos anytime soon but am compelled to upgrade my account out of sheer gratitude.
Lastly, I’ve finally checked out jQuery, and can now say: I get why all the fuss.
Posted in Random.
Boost your Rails Controller params[:fu]
“In the next few blog posts, I intend to show you that if you take the time to assemble your params the way Rails likes it, you can dramatically reduce the amount of code you have to write in your controller actions and models, simply because Rails takes care of it for you.”
Posted in Development.
Now for the hard part. We now have to execute a loop. On each pass of the loop we are looking for all items whose dependencies have all been sequenced. We will do this over and over until the command is not affecting any rows. It is important that we cannot exit the loop by testing if all rows are sequenced, because a circular dependency will prevent this from happening and we will have an infinite loop.
Posted in Development.
Posted in Development.
Distinguishing potential spammers from regular humans by using their profile data as a blob of indicators.
Posted in Development.
Very basic script to fix up some usability issues with work’s call-tracking…
Favicon was retrieved by bookmarking a site with a good favicon in Firefox, then snipping the binary data out of Firefox’s bookmark file. This one’s a big black star.
TODO: Highlight my name in posts so I can easily scan the page. This would rely on CSS3’s content selectors, which section of the draft I now see is ominously blank.
Posted in Development.
This is an important pattern and comes up infrequently enough I’d better save a snippet…
Posted in Development.
More automated massaging of venue XML.
Posted in Development.
Everyday Git in 20 commands explores Git as used by folks in varying roles.
The Thing About Git — One man’s workflow with some debate in the comments about the utility of the index.
git awsome-ness [git rebase --interactive] — All about git rebase –interactive.
Posted in Development.
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