iPhone on Rails and ObjectiveResource; Making communication between the iPhone and a Rails web-service pain-free.
ObjectiveResource is an Objective-C port of Ruby on Rails' ActiveResource. It provides a way to serialize objects to and from Rails' standard RESTful web-services (via XML or JSON) and handles much of the complexity involved with invoking web-services of any language from the iPhone.
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Building and Scaling a Startup on Rails: 12 Things We Learned the Hard Way - Axon Flux - A Ruby on Rails Blog
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How to move a window to the next monitor on Xfce, Mate and other X Window Managers
Since I use this a lot in my daily work and there were no scripts working properly for me, I made one myself.
It's actually not bound to Xfce but should work on any window manager (haven't tried it, though).
Installation
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Security issues with hash conditions in Rails 2 and Rails 3
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