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Resources for women doing startups(danielkehoe.com)
1 points by yaxdotcom 16y ago|0 comments
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Ruby on Rails Outreach Workshop for Women (in SF)(sfruby.info)
2 points by yaxdotcom 16y ago|0 comments
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by yaxdotcom 16y ago
Why shouldn’t I just go to StackOverflow and use the tag feature to filter for the Ruby questions?
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by yaxdotcom 16y ago
Aaron Patterson (tenderlove)'s first Rails release.
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Rails 3.0.5 released(groups.google.com)
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by yaxdotcom 16y ago
Sure, HTTP status codes should be used. But they aren't enough to communicate application-specific messages from an app backend to an AJAX front-end. For example, AJAX on the browser might submit a form and the server returns a 422 (HTTP va
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by yaxdotcom 16y ago
I rebuilt a house in the SF Bay Area several years ago. In-floor radiant heating is my absolute favorite feature. Nothing like it. On-demand tankless hot water system. With two loops (one open, one closed) and a heat exchanger between the t
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What is Lean User Experience?(luxr.posterous.com)
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by yaxdotcom 16y ago
Think about the guys in any prison movie: Take time to plan your escape. 1) Instead of digging a hole with stolen spoons in the prison yard, learn to program. "Rails for Zombies" (the tutorial) or Michael Hartl's book can substitute for sto
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Clever Recruiting Techniques: A Flyer at a San Francisco Cafe(danielkehoe.com)
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The VC industry's most colorful colloquialisms(quora.com)
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by yaxdotcom 16y ago
In the 1980s, I ran a monthly 24 page punk rock music magazine using this technology. By 1984, after I sold the business, desktop publishing was already pushing out "cold type". "Cold type" -- or phototypesetting -- was what we called the C
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by yaxdotcom 16y ago
The large ecosystem is one of the biggest benefits to Ruby/Rails development but, yes, it can be difficult to determine which third-party project is best supported or most popular. I'd have gotten lost long ago if it wasn't for Christoph Ol
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The King’s Speech and the Reality of Stuttering(sensorysmartparent.wordpress.com)
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by yaxdotcom 16y ago
Great to see a curated collection of resources about RESTful practices. Hosted on code.google.com... now if only Google would uniformly adopt REST for their own APIs. Google is still using SOAP for the AdWords API and I get hives every time
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by yaxdotcom 16y ago
If you want to see how it's done in Ruby on Rails, here's an example app with authentication and user management and MongoDB for data. With a tutorial. https://github.com/fortuity/rails3-mongoid-devise
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by yaxdotcom 16y ago
I too use Toodledo, on the iPad and web. I have even used it collaboratively to track tasks with my virtual assistant. It's got complexity (you can organize tasks by folders, goals, priorities, status, and more) but if you're not overwhelme
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Ask HN: Alternatives to fixed-fee or time-and-materials pricing for s/w dev?
8 points by yaxdotcom 16y ago|1 comments
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Favelas, Drug Trade & Twitter: What Went Down in Rio(aspiringluminary.com)
1 points by yaxdotcom 16y ago|0 comments
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by yaxdotcom 16y ago
Irony in action. Wonder if it's intentional.
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Steve Jobs Action Figure (with iPhone and Talk Balloons)(micgadget.com)
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by yaxdotcom 16y ago
When NoSQL isn't enough.
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Reversible Migrations in Rails 3.1(github.com)
2 points by yaxdotcom 16y ago|1 comments
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by yaxdotcom 16y ago
More Firesheep fallout. GitHub goes to all-SSL access. Now you can't generate new Rails applications from templates hosted on GitHub.
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GitHub https redirect breaks Rails application generator templates(support.github.com)
2 points by yaxdotcom 16y ago|1 comments
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Rails for Zombies: Learning Rails for the first time should be fun(railsforzombies.org)
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by yaxdotcom 16y ago
"Code for America was founded to help the brightest minds of the Web 2.0 generation transform city governments." http://codeforamerica.org/
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Code For America funds 20 developers on civic open source projects(techpresident.com)
1 points by yaxdotcom 16y ago|1 comments
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San Francisco is often described as the most cosmopolitan of American cities (excepting NYC). You may find it similar to European cities in terms of nightlife, cinema, cultural activities, and people's eclectic interests. Relative to Europe
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What features would you like to see in jQuery 1.5?(spreadsheets.google.com)
2 points by yaxdotcom 16y ago|0 comments

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