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Repeat Yourself Frequently (RYF)

Where does the database schema live? Hi XXXXX, Yes, the GUI reads the csv and populates the performance tables. The tables and views were not documented in Internal_table.xlsx spreadsheet or in the create_db.sql script, as in a Rails project the correct place for database schema information is in the db folder within the project – [...]

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Code smells: a = a

In a project I’m working on at the moment, I saw some rather unusual code at the top of a number of views – it looked like it was trying to set a default value in the event the variable wasn’t defined, for example: and the definition of undefined_to_false: My first reaction to that method [...]

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Godaddy deleted my emails

Seems Godaddy implemented a new feature on their email hosting: “Auto-purge”.  As the name suggests it will automatically delete emails.  Now that’s fine for folder like Spam and Deleted Items but they put it on my Sent Items!  Goodbye 7 years of email history… As a loyal *paying* customer for 7 years, who has recommended [...]

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Facebook and Rails

Ok, so I thought of developing a Facebook application using Rails and kind of assumed that there’d be some fantastic library that just did all the hard work leaving me to write the app. It seems there are a number of attempts to develop a ruby library for Facebook but finding one that is still [...]

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