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There are two places I should have looked before complaining about the ActiveRecord docs. The first is Rails Weenie. The second is the Ruby on Rails Wiki. I haven’t found a canned answer to my question yet, but in both places you can post your questions and your progress toward answering them, leaving a trail [...]

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To me, the most painful part of working with Ruby on Rails has been the immaturity of the supporting documentation, specifically as regards ActiveRecord. I know there are boatloads of Ruby on Rails books on the way, and to me, the one that’s most needed is an in depth explanation of how ActiveRecord works and [...]

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I confess that I have not paid much attention to all of the stories about network neutrality and AT&T’s attempts to start charging content providers a toll to take full advantage of the bandwidth they provide to residential customers because my mind has been made up from the beginning. As a customer, I buy a [...]

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I’m a licensed NetNewsWire owner, so why does the latest beta require me to register for a NewsGator account? That kind of irritates me.

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Yesterday, I was at Target and I needed to buy some cold medication. I already knew that the pharmacies don’t keep any medicine that has pseudoephedrine on the shelf any more, in order to prevent people from buying it in bulk and using it in meth labs or something.

Instead of just tossing the box of [...]

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David of Ruby on Rails fame has a blog post about the ongoing difficulties in avoiding using top replies when you’re emailing. As an old school geek, I have similar urges. To me, you should trim the email you’re replying to and write your answers beneath the specific lines in your reply.

Unfortunately, only old school [...]

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After much, much agonizing over digital cameras, I finally pulled the trigger and ordered a Nikon D50 with the 18-55mm kit lens the other day. I went to a store a few weeks ago just to see how some of the cameras I was looking at handled, and in the end decided that I [...]

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My wife had an interesting customer service experience yesterday that I thought I’d write up. My wife ordered something on the Internet and the company shipped her the wrong item. She called to let them know about it, and the customer service rep who she called asked her for some identifier for the person who [...]

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This morning I read that former CIA director and Presidental Medal of Freedom winner George Tenet currently holds a professorship at Georgetown University. Yesterday it was reported that St. Bernard Parish might hire MIchael Brown as a consultant to help deal with recovery efforts. There’s no doubt in my mind that if Ken Lay and [...]

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Let’s say you were asked which software should be included on the CD that is packaged with a book on Web publishing? What would you recommend? Here’s a list of a few things that come to mind:

Mozilla Firefox Opera HTML Kit XAMPP MAMP

Any other ideas? Please leave a comment.

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