I was setting up a Subversion repository one year ago. Of course, I also wanted to have regular backups of...
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A while back, I had a requirement to persist a record of which email addresses were sent an email through...
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Maybe I haven’t been paying close enough attention, but over the past few years an interesting variation of CSS...
Following up on my previous post, this is the second installment of Java Concurrency Bugs. In this post, we’ll...
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The argument that using tests is a ideologic waster of time fails when one considers how it can help to...
YAML List of all translations currently available in Rails
List of Rails releases.
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A couple of Railsconfs ago, Courtenay and I did indeed discuss
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In this article we’ve listed 7 fresh and simple tools for cross-browser compatibility testing, tools that actually make...
I did want to drop a quick picture here of their trial usage dialog that pops up as it’s...
Flot is a pure Javascript plotting library for jQuery. It produces graphical plots of arbitrary datasets on-the-fly client...