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Aww
Microsoft shuts down Windows 98 - they're finally ending support for the Win98 operating system. It astounds me that anyone who uses their computer more than very occasionally could still be using ...
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Rails search in 5 minutes
I got to the point of needing to add search to the CMS I'm working on, so did a quick google search to see if there was any existing help for doing search in Rails. Up popped a result on the Rails ...
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Boff!
Can't believe the disgrace of Zidane last night. I can only hope Materazzi said something seriously bad to him to go at least part-way to explaining such an insane attack. Anyway, Cute Overload ...
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Creativity in education
I've just watched a video linked to from WeBreakStuff's 'weekly inspiration' and it truly was inspiring. It was a talk by Sir Ken Robinson on creativity in education, the gist of it being about how...
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Double standards
Browsing StyleGala this afternoon, I spotted a link to an article about the rise of awareness in corporate Britain of the need for accessible websites. 'Great news' I thought, clicking the link and...
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The Fast-CGI difference
Having got my Rails CMS working under CGI last night, this morning I switched it to dispatch.fcgi and it really does make a serious speed difference! Running with dispatch.cgi the app was pretty...
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Deploying a Rails app...
Not as easy as you'd imagine. Today I tried moving my Rails-based CMS code onto my host's server so I could combine a bit of PHP code with it until I get time to re-write in Ruby (image manager ...
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A lesson to laptop owners
Having practically just burned myself, here's a (potentially quite obvious) tip for laptop owners - make really sure the laptop has actually turned off before putting it in your bag. I usually set ...
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New design time!
Last time I was re-aligning but I think this time it has to count as a re-design. After feeling the urge to re-design the site a few times in recent months but never actually being able to come up ...
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Wow, that was easy
I just got around to looking into creating RSS feeds for the news section of the CMS I'm building in Rails, so dug out my still-new Rails Recipes book and was pleasantly surprised to see how easy i...