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by billturner 17y ago
Funny, I thought the exact same thing when I saw it.
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by billturner 17y ago
apparently, the explicit category has already disappeared: http://gizmodo.com/5479497/apple-removes-explicit-option-fro...
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by billturner 17y ago
I'll probably dig into it a little more later, but initially, on one of the book's detail pages, the text (and everything else) is pushed all the way to the sides of the browser window (in Chrome on OS X), so your "Feedback" side button obs
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by billturner 17y ago
For one thing, the author of the ebook is a frequent poster here, which should give it a little more weight than a viagra email. Plus, there have been plenty of links about the transition to Rails 3, and this looks like it could be a handy
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by billturner 17y ago
I don't think it's the owner that was saying "wait until February," but rather just one of the other employees - one that wrote many of the original tutorials and was hired on because of that.
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by billturner 17y ago
I remember Slackware Linux back in the mid-late 90s that involved creating loads and loads of 3 1/2 floppies for installation. It was not an easy process back then, at all. But, it was young then, and I learned a whole lot more having to bu
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by billturner 17y ago
And for looking at code of a full app, Jetpack Web posted a list of some great examples (including the gems, testing framework, etc that they use): http://jetpackweb.com/blog/2009/10/14/high-quality-ruby-on-r...
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by billturner 17y ago
And for a good Ruby book, David Black's Well-Grounded Rubyist is pretty good: http://www.manning.com/black2/
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by billturner 17y ago
Thanks for pointing out firequery, as I hadn't seen that before. Looks pretty neat
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by billturner 17y ago
I hear lots of good things about Expression Engine ( http://www.expressionengine.com/ ) but I've never used it. It always seems to come up as the platform that fills the void between Wordpress and Drupal. But even Wordpress could most likel
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by billturner 17y ago
Perhaps telling us what you don't like about Media Temple will help you out a little. If it's a relatively low traffic weblog, there are cheap hosts like dreamhost.com. If you don't require a lot of customization (themes, plugins, etc) you
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by billturner 17y ago
I've used zoneedit.com in the past and was pleased with the service. It's free for up to two or three domains, or it used to be, and the web interface was simple but did everything you needed it to.
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by billturner 17y ago
Textmate, Firebug, Chrome & Safari's web inspector, Sequel Pro (for MySQL), Gitx, github.com, and Terminal.
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by billturner 17y ago
1) It's "What's the Big Idea?" and not "Whats the Big Idea?". And there are more spelling/grammar issues on the "About" page. 2) The layout seems a bit off: http://i47.tinypic.com/jj7hpg.jpg 3) Many banks now offer this sort of feature wi
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by billturner 17y ago
_but it's full of joke ones_ This is a shame. I think if the submitters could be vetted with some serious discussion behind why they were rejected, it could be a pretty decent resource for iPhone developers. You could get a heads up on what
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by billturner 17y ago
TextMate for code and SequelPro for MySQL. The rest is built in: Terminal, Apache + PHP. Also, I off-and-on use Things for task lists (now I'm back on using TODOs in Textmate).
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by billturner 17y ago
Not a whole lot of surprises there, but I am curious why Jason Fried of 37signals is featured, and not David Heinemeier Hansson. They mention Ruby on Rails, but it was DHH that had a larger hand in it (only hand?) than Jason Fried. Also, th
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by billturner 17y ago
Rails is such a fast moving target that keeping totally updated books on the shelves is probably just as frustrating for the book publishers as for those wanting up-to-date books. That said, the Pragmatic Programmer's book Agile Development
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by billturner 17y ago
I'll try and make it, but it seems unlikely, with the Pitt game and other family obligations that weekend. It would be nice to make it somewhat regular though, as I'm sure I could make others.
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by billturner 17y ago
But last I tried to use them (a month or so ago) they no longer work in anything other than MS Virtual PC. VirtualBox, VMWare, etc wouldn't work. So, now you need to be on a Windows PC to use their images.
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by billturner 17y ago
Looks more like their answer to pownce, and we know how well they did.
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by billturner 17y ago
$9 for a single screencast is a little pricey, but over a year ago I bought the one-year option, and don't regret it at all. They're all high quality and worth it, I think. But, they haven't added enough new screencasts to make it worth me
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by billturner 17y ago
Since you mention .erb, I'm guessing Rails. There was a Railscast covering this exact thing recently: http://railscasts.com/episodes/180-finding-unused-css
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by billturner 17y ago
I was thinking the same thing. I'd rather see a list of the top 10 most-clever solutions to a problem, rather than the top 10 snarky comebacks.
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by billturner 17y ago
I'm also a recent pittsburgher (moved here 3 years ago). I just saw some tweets about this starting up as well (Build Guild): http://pittsburgh.buildguild.org/
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by billturner 17y ago
The main library I occasionally work at does have coffee, and is allowed anywhere on the 1st floor. You just can't take it up into the stacks.
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by billturner 18y ago
And just TWO days ago, I switched two big apps running nginx + thin to running apache + passenger - mainly for the ease of maintenance. If I had only waited two days...
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by billturner 18y ago
I don't think there's a recommended text at all. If it's like the last one they put online (minus iTunes), all the reading material will be PDFs on the course's site. Keep an eye out here for when they start posting the PDFs and other mater
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by billturner 18y ago
I don't see bloggers only replacing the news, unless those bloggers are just the journalists switching from writing a column in the paper, to publishing their articles at the newspaper's website (maybe in weblog format). I think the biggest
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by billturner 18y ago
The fact that a "Twitter for Dummies" book is actually being written (or already written) brings me great sadness. Is it really that hard?

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