Now in 2010, the iPad takes the same ideas to their logical extreme. It is a beautiful and nearly perfect machine. It is also Jobs' final triumph, the final step in Apple's evolution away from Wozniak and toward a closed model.

If you need to "originally" write your code in Swahili, while listening to Milli Vanilli, while reclining in a patch of mud, and then you need fifty oompa loompas to translate the Swahili into C, that is none of Steve Jobs fucking business.

I wanted to jot down some of my thoughts on country roads, so that customers of our iCar may better understand why we don't allow iCars to ever get on country roads.

Remember video calling? It was a minor fad in the year 2005, when a few high-end mobile phones came with two cameras on them because the mobile networks wanted to make billions of pounds out of us video calling each other for £6.99 per minute.

Background information about session storage in Rails

Rails has a default mechanism to store the session in the [CookieStore](https://api.rubyonrails.org/v7.0.8/classes/ActionD...

When searching for text in a MySQL table, you have two choices:

• The LIKE operator
• [FULLTEXT](http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/fulltext-boolean.html...

As we get an exception notification, when a cron job fails, we wish to have the full backtrace in this mail. A rake task doesn't output the full backtrace by default, so you need the --backtrace option.

Trigger

You will find fail mails wit...

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By default your html and body elements are *only as high as the a...

Intro

Embedding videos on a website is very easy, add a <video> tag to your source code and it just works. Most of the time.

The thing is: Both the **operating system and Browser of your client must support the container ...

Don't do iPhone apps.