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I’m in the process of reading Agile Web Development with Rails, the introduction to Rails written by Dave Thomas and Rails creator David Heinemeier Hansson. I plan on writing a full review once I’ve finished, but I wanted to go ahead and start talking about it because both Rails and the book have prompted a [...]

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I’m going to incorporate this idea into the next iteration of my Web site.

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Cory Doctorow reports that he’s been told by DRM experts that line noise could not cause the copying restrictions that people are seeing with their Tivos. The restrictions are part of a Macrovision copy protection scheme, and Tivo claims that the protection is being tripped by data errors, as opposed to being enabled purposefully by [...]

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Some disturbing news from Tivo-land bears scrutiny (if you’re a Tivo user anyway). Tivo provides a feature to content providers that enables them to dictate the terms under which it can be recorded. They can specify that a show can only be stored for two weeks, or that the person who recorded it can’t copy [...]

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Of all of the interface elements on an application that I’ve built, the one that users have the hardest time with is batch uploads. This system, which processes transactions, can accept transactions in batches. The system is very simple, the batch files are CSV files which can be easily created in Excel. There are no [...]

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Google has released Google Blog Search. Technorati only had so long before the gorilla showed up.

Update: Worth noting — Google indexes feeds rather than weblogs, so sites with full text feeds are at an advantage in terms of being reachable.

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The Omidyar Network is matching Katrina donations dollar for dollar. The matching program is delightfully low-tech. Just make a donation and note it on the Wiki. (Via Ramit Sethi.)

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Here’s the first weblog entry I’ve seen on problems with iTunes 5.0. However, I have read posts from a number of people who have had problems upgrading iTunes, all of them Mac users. I upgraded one of my PCs and everything went without a hitch. If I were a Mac user, I’d hold out until [...]

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Nelson Minar posted the answer to a question I had planned on researching recently, explaining how the smaller CCDs relate to lens size on SLRs. I have an old school Nikon SLR and have been interested in purchasing a digital SLR, and was wondering whether my lenses would work as I expect. Here’s the [...]

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I downloaded and installed Firefox 1.5 Beta 1 today because there’s nothing I love better than the beta version of a Web browser. You can read about all the cool new features in the release notes, and what the browser offers developers in an article by Simon Willison, but what you really want to do [...]

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