February 2012
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The Hardest Thing About Teaching: Knowing When to...
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Introducing Collusion: Discover who’s tracking you...
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About normalize.css: a modern, HTML5-ready...
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We started requiring code reviews for everything,...
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IBM shows off quantum computing advances, says...
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How to solve supposedly intractable problems
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Edge Rails: PATCH is the new primary HTTP method...
What is PATCH?
The HTTP method PUT means resource creation or replacement at some given URL.
Think files, for example. If you upload a file to S3 at some URL, you want
either to create the file at that URL or replace an existing file if there’s
one. That is PUT.
Now let’s say a web application has an Invoice model with a paid flag that
indicates whether the invoice has been paid....
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Woz on Creativity: Work Alone
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Amazon Simple Workflow - Cloud-Based Workflow...
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How Basecamp Next got to be so damn fast without...
When we started working on Basecamp Next last year, we had much internal debate about whether we should evolve the existing code base or rewrite it. I’ll dive more into that debate further in a later post, but one of the key arguments for a rewrite was that we wanted a dramatic leap forward in speed — one that wouldn’t be possible through mere evolution.
Speed is one of those core competitive...
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Increasing User Engagement in Emails
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Books every self-taught computer scientist should...
There are three books that I believe that every self-taught computer
scientist should read. These are books that I often recommend to
smart junior developers that learned their knowledge by doing instead
of schooling. These are books that will close the gap for people that
fall into the category of “or equivalent experience” on a job posting.
The first book is the venerable C...
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Heroku makes sharing SQL data as easy as URL
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Game Developer Gives 7-Year-Old Best Birthday...
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Rails is Definitely Not for Beginners
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Episode #246 - February 14, 2012
It’s Valentine’s Day and on this episode we Deliver Newman to the Lion, while the Little Guys go on a Anonymous donation Spree for Travis CI!
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Remove Finder from the Application Switcher in Mac...
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Back on Linux (after one year of Apple and OS X)
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Rails migrations with no downtime
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Why we are much smarter than we think we are
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Convert Ruby 1.8 to 1.9 hash syntax
In vim, for an entire file:
:%s/:\([^ ]*\)\(\s*\)=>/\1:/g
In the shell, for an entire project:
perl -pi -e 's/:([\w\d_]+)(\s*)=>/\1:/g' **/*.rb
Now, instead of those old-school hashes like this:
get '/', :agent => MOBILE_BROWSERS do
You’ll have new-school hashes like this:
get '/', agent: MOBILE_BROWSERS do
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After Years Of Drilling, Antarctic Lake Will Be...
By Katia Moskvitch
Science reporter, BBC News
The first satellite images of Lake Vostok were obtained in the 1990s
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In Pictures: The hidden lake
New lakes beneath Antarctic ice
Secret rivers found in Antarctic
With only about 50m left to...
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Neil Young is right — piracy is the new radio
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Study Finds Engineers Far More Likely than MBAs to...
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Plan 9: The way the future was
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