tomfakes

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by tomfakes 14y ago
You do not need a patch file All you need to do is: update your Gemfile to the correct version of Rails run **bundle update rails** in the root of your directory then **git commit -am "update rails"** to save the files the
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by tomfakes 14y ago
A tool like YSlow in the browser, or http://WebPagetest.org will show you what is cached and what isn't WebPagetest.org shows you the first time call which is generally awesome, but in this context will also show you the second visit expe
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by tomfakes 14y ago
I recently wrote a blog post about how Rack::Cache and ETag work http://blog.craz8.com/articles/2012/12/19/rack-cache-and-eta... , which is particularly important to know for Heroku based apps. The key part is that, for public content (and
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by tomfakes 14y ago
This looks to be specific to the AuthLogic gem for authentication. I've been doing Rails development for 7 years and I have yet to see AuthLogic in the wild. Devise is by far the most widely implemented auth system for a Rails app. So, to
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Test a website's performance(webpagetest.org)
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by tomfakes 14y ago
There's a great resource for testing page load speed for different browsers/locations/connection speeds. Frankly, I'm stunned that they run this at no cost. http://www.webpagetest.org
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by tomfakes 14y ago
I really like this technique. I've used it in a number of places, and it really does give great performance. My usage has never been as clean looking as this though. It's always been a bit surprising that Rails doesn't use the multi_get ca
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by tomfakes 14y ago
There are many things you can do to improve the performance of your website, even to people with dial up - or worse - Mobile! Compress data with gzip is probably the big one for modem users, but also batching scripts and CSS together, reduc
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by tomfakes 14y ago
I've seen reverse gear used on several cars this year to get a car back on track after going off. I think the FIA must be testing for this operation (otherwise the teams would find some way to work around the regulations)
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by tomfakes 14y ago
One thing that needs to be mentioned is ventilation for the exhaust gasses of these things. The Pacific Northwest had a similar (but smaller) storm to this in 2006. We had much less sea damage, but more wind damage from trees falling over.
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by tomfakes 14y ago
I saw a pizza delivery guy plugged into a Walgreens charging station near Seattle last week! Don't know if he was in the process of delivering a pizza at the time, but he had the doohickey on the roof.
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by tomfakes 14y ago
I use my current Nano exclusively for running. I can carry a bunch of music (or audio books, or podcasts) in a device that, for practical purposes, weighs nothing. I can use the built in clip to attach it to a shirt edge, or just put it in
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by tomfakes 14y ago
john.smith@startup.com <– The founding team is all from Microsoft and can’t shake it if they tried. For the longest time, Microsoft email addresses were limited to 8 characters for backwards compatibility with older email syst
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by tomfakes 14y ago
All his friends are pestering him about when he's releasing this book - he's under no pressure to publish and rather enjoys the process of digging up all this stuff and writing the code to process these images.
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by tomfakes 14y ago
I was going to mention Don - he's a friend of a friend - and the book he's writing about the Russian Venus program. There's a lot of awesome stuff here that almost no-one knows about.
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by tomfakes 14y ago
The "Find My Mac" feature is on by default. I just turned mine off in the iCloud settings
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by tomfakes 14y ago
You can buy un-cut US currency here: http://www.moneyfactorystore.gov/uncutcurrency.aspx The $2 is currently out of stock :-(
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by tomfakes 14y ago
To be clear - he doesn't actually print these. He buys sheets of pre-printed bills and re-packages them into books instead of cutting them into individual bills. A neat trick, but completely legal US cash money (The US $2 bill is unusual,
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by tomfakes 14y ago
In Seattle, Amazon is testing Amazon Fresh for groceries. Amazon Fresh has their own delivery infrastructure with their own trucks and drivers. They also deliver other things using this system. I received a CD via Amazon Fresh on Sunday,
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by tomfakes 14y ago
Hmm, the AMZN after hours trading shows them to be UP after this news. This headline seems to be verifiably false.
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by tomfakes 14y ago
The package I had delivered today came via Amazon Fresh - the grocery delivery service they are testing in the Seattle area. It looks like they're also using it for non-Fresh items too for small, commodity items like CDs This is Amazon own
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by tomfakes 14y ago
I bought 2 things on Amazon this week, both with free 2 day shipping with Prime Item 1 spent 13 hours on a UPS truck driving around my city and was delivered about 7pm in the evening 2 days after ordering. Item 2 was delivered 14 hours afte
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by tomfakes 14y ago
It's humbling to think of seeing an entire subspecies being wiped out by this one simple event. I saw Lonesome George in person just last December - although at a fair distance (he wasn't particularly friendly to the tourists!) On the same
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by tomfakes 14y ago
It is possible to do this, but there's tricks of setting font-size and background-size involved to get the background sprite image to scale correctly. I got this info from somewhere in The Googles, so the information is out there. I haven't
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by tomfakes 14y ago
Why did MiniMagick not work for you? It does exactly this type of manipulation using the command line, and is working great for a large number of existing web sites
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by tomfakes 14y ago
Since LinkedIn didn't lock my account yesterday, I assumed my password was not leaked. However, LeakedIn has my password marked as 'leaked' but not yet cracked. Is LinkedIn really on top of this as they say they are?
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by tomfakes 14y ago
With fiction, sometimes the entire point can be escapism. A way of taking the mind elsewhere for a time that allows other things to occur because you are not thinking about your current issues. Like taking a shower - which can be where my
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by tomfakes 14y ago
I may have had it a little wrong. I can't find older legislation about this subject that confirms my supposition. This 1994 legislation made it the law that plugs must be fitted to certain consumer devices: http://www.legislation.gov.uk
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by tomfakes 14y ago
In the UK, until fairly recently, it was illegal to sell a product with a plug attached. Consumers had to wire their own plugs to their electrical devices before use. Now that is inefficient!
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by tomfakes 14y ago
Can anyone explain why this doesn't happen every year, and is on a 100+ year cycle of 2 in eight years and then nothing for 105?

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