Acknowledging the unknown as part of the process
I think this is by far the best, though vague and ambiguous poetry I’ve ever seen and I loved it! It puts the technical context of programming in a development cycle into lay context. I stumbled upon this lovely piece of work, through CodingHorror’s article entitled: Version 1 Sucks, But Ship It Anyway As we
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The power of toggle
I don’t know if we’ve been missing out on deliberate API lovin’ or that we’re becoming dumber every minute because of too much work, or its just the love month? …but we’ve been missing the power of “toggle“. Toggle is defined as: any instruction that works first one way and then the other; it turns
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DIY Ruby SFTP to S3
I was faced by a challenge of transferring some files from an FTP server to S3. At first, the nature of the problem seemed simple. I just had to get the files to my local machine and then upload them to S3. Piece of cake! But lo and behold, when I saw that there were
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Forcing urls to use https
I found this extremely useful: def redirect_to_ssl redirect_to url_for params.merge({:protocol => ‘https://’}) unless request.ssl? end Put this in your application controller and call before_filter :redirect_to_ssl on every controller that would require ssl. You can pick which actions would only require this by extending your before_filter declaration as such: before_filter :redirect_to_ssl, 
nly => [:new, :purchase] or
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