Posts
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How many programming languages do you know?
List of programming languages that I know* that appear on the Official Wikipedia List of Programming Languages**.
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Nokia blows it on the N97
Nokia’s new N97, I was hoping it would be the next great phone. But looking at a review in AAS, it looks like they totally blew it on the keyboard. There are only three rows of keys, which means that the space bar is in completely the wrong place. Gak!
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StartupCamp Waterloo Numero Six
StartupCampWaterloo6 will be… is … was. Yesterday in fact.
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The old server was always crap, but...
% uptime
00:59:46 up 607 days, 14:13, 2 users, load average: 0.06, 0.17, 0.36 -
How to make samba on ubuntu use your unix passwords
You need something called “password sync” … obvious right?
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Incredible Hulk easter egg: Nick Fury letter
So there I was, watching the Incredible Hulk titles again in slow-motion, because I’m always curious as to what the special effects people write into the various fake news stories and computer graphics. Sometimes it’s funny. And I came across this little easter egg which seems to have been missed by fans on the net.
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Why do people on eHarmony close with "I am pursuing another relationship"?
I have a theory about this one. Because they can easily go to Matching and turn it off temporarily. But I think that some people leave it on, because they want the ego boost, even though they’re going to shut down the match anyway.
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How to do rails tests when running with restful_authentication
The Restful Authentication plugin seems to be the standard right now, although I’m staring to wish I’d tried something else, maybe AuthLogic… because restful_authentication is kind of poorly documented. One serious error of ommission is how the hell do you update your tests so that you can run them on controllers that require a logged in user? Well, I have had the pain, and so you can have the quick answer, here it is.
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Don't use porn in your slides at a tech conference
So Merb developer Matt Aimonetti made a presentation at GoGaRoCu heavily laden with soft-core pornography and some people got upset. In particular, a woman got upset – Sarah Allen. It didn’t help that she was one of only six women at a 200 person conference. Holy shit!
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sudo apachectl stop && sudo apt-get remove apache2 && sudo apt-get install nginx
I binned apache finally on semacode.com. It was easy. A little bit of “this is really the last straw” frustration with mod_rewrite and I ditched it.