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New Shoes

Paul Graham on Building Stuff. 37 Signals on doing the same

Lisp and Scatology

If you’re using anything other than fragment caching on pages with forms (and your fragment caching runs after your form blocks), then you’ll likely see Rails freakout on on the 2nd user that submits your cached form. The authenticity_token from the prior user has been cached and Rails is protecting you (I think). So, the [...]

I’m tumbling shorter posts and links now, in case anyone is interested. (Although I still do it on this blog as well…incorrigible I guess).

Enjoy the Holidays with a new 1.9 Dev Release. Apparently Mongrel and Rails are fairly close to being compatible…. Nice overview here. Update. PragDave has some rather pragmatic advice for approaching the 1.9 development release. And yes, the last time I looked at my first year college compositions, I noticed more than a few tautologies. [...]

Alex Russell discussing why the W3C cannot save us: To get a better future, not only do we need a return to “the browser wars”, we need to applaud and use the hell out of “non-standard” features until such time as there’s a standard to cover equivalent functionality. Non-standard features are the future, and suggesting [...]

So, you have your nifty new Rails 2.0 site up and running on a cluster of Mongrels proxied by Nginx and decide that you want to add a sub-domain to your slice to host a blog describing what your site does, since its “Web 2.0″ name doesn’t make a lick of sense. First you set [...]