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Archive for January, 2008

Myspace captcha is broken

My favorite site (NOT) is bugging me once again. Fix your damn CAPTCHA, myspace! [ READ MORE ]

Language trickery and EJB

  • January 20th, 2008
  • Posted in tech

Or: why I left Java. Here. [ READ MORE ]

More and more Rails Core tickets

  • January 15th, 2008
  • Posted in rails

More and more of my patches are being accepted into Rails Core. This one contains just a bunch of tests, but it applies to a ‘return path’ fix that will be included soon as well. Cool! [ READ MORE ]

Importing email contacts in Ruby

  • January 14th, 2008
  • Posted in ruby

I have just blogged about a Ruby tool I am using to import email contacts. It works great, if you are programming in Ruby I really recommend it. [ READ MORE ]

Controller methods unavailable inside RJS block

  • January 9th, 2008
  • Posted in rails

I just came to a sad realisation: any method you declare inside a controller (such as a private helper method) is not available inside a RJS block. I can see why (blocks introduce scope) but it’s still annoying. [ READ MORE ]

Mongrel: the cat's out of the bag

Allrighty! The cat is out of the bag. Zed Shaw, creater of the Mongrel web server, has finally snapped! He’s always been a funny sort of guy, and I really do appreciate his style. Also, Mongrel is a fantastic web server even though I am using LiteSpeed myself. Anywho. Check out this rant from good [ READ MORE ]