rtuck

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by rtuck 13y ago
About the pagination example you mentioned: Rather than use link relations, pagination might be better done with URI Templates. This is a spec [1] that allows passing a URI with placeholders to the client which can then fill them in without
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by rtuck 15y ago
I can also recommend Zotac's HTPCs for XBMC. While more expensive than the Apple TV ($250~), you get a great little linux-friendly box that does full HD without any issues. If you don't feel like messing with it, you can just drop Openelec
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by rtuck 15y ago
I remember the question more in terms of "Does AWS give preferential treatment to Amazon vs other customers?" to which the answer was, of course, "No, it's not workable at such a scale." I imagine there was a large amount of hardware shari
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by rtuck 15y ago
I've been looking into a few ways to do exactly that with Raphael. The short answer is that it's possible but a little tricky. I've found three methods so far: 1) If you're using a browser that supports SVG (basically, not IE), Raphael will
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by rtuck 15y ago
This is coverage from an event last November. While interesting, I'm not sure how it's relevant. Can you provide some context?
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by rtuck 15y ago
As the umpteen other comments say, yes: Amsterdam is extremely English friendly. That said, outside of Amsterdam, some rudimentary Dutch helps a lot, especially if you're using public transport. Also, even just trying will automatically g
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by rtuck 15y ago
Legally speaking, the larger problem is probably immigration law. The anti-foreigner sentiment here is driving a set of ever more annoying laws and processes. To digress a bit: For the non-EU crowd, the easiest way into the country is proba
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by rtuck 16y ago
If you're going to upgrade to 5.3 (which you should!), I would highly recommend Doctrine 2 (not 1, very different project). It's a loose port of Hibernate from Java and takes a very different tack then most PHP ORMs. The models have no mand
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by rtuck 16y ago
I've tried out a few different tools now; the only two I've had any real success with were Capistrano and Fabric. Capistrano works well, great git integration, but it does have some rails-isms you need to override to make it work sanely. Th