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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.
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Intelligent humour
Intelligent online cartoons:
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How to really URL encode an NSString in Objective-C, iPhone, etc.
Trying to encode URL parameters on Mac or iPhone? Frustrated because NSString stringByAddingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding encodes non-URL characters but leaves the reserved characters (like slash / and ampersand &) alone? “Apparently” this is a “bug” apple is aware of, but they haven’t done anything about it yet, and so, here is a solution that actually works.
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trusted user status on Daily Kos
Well, apparently I’ve achieved the vaunted and much-desired “trusted user” status on DKos. That means I can rate people down, as opposed to just up. I’m probably not going to do it much, just like I rarely troll rated people when I had privs on SlashDot (back when /. was interesting…)
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The better way to code error-handling routines
There’s an excellent guide to Rails 2 that I’m reading through right now, but I don’t like this bit:
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Simplelog-X... is coming...
So I just made some major updates to the software running this site, which for now I’m calling “Simplelog-X”. And the source code for simplelog-x is now on github.
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Dubai, I'm shocked!
So Dubai isn’t a wonderland and actually is a vast petrol- and credit-funded nightmare that is on a knife’s edge of sinking into the sands, forever gone? I’m shocked! Who could have thought it.
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New server for simonwoodside.com
Yup.
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