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Monthly Archives: January 2008

Myspace captcha is broken

Posted on January 23, 2008 by joost
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My favorite site (NOT) is bugging me once again. Fix your damn CAPTCHA, myspace! Continue reading →

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Language trickery and EJB

Posted on January 20, 2008 by joost
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Or: why I left Java. Here.

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More and more Rails Core tickets

Posted on January 15, 2008 by joost
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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!

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Importing email contacts in Ruby

Posted on January 14, 2008 by joost
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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.

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Controller methods unavailable inside RJS block

Posted on January 9, 2008 by joost
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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.
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Mongrel: the cat's out of the bag

Posted on January 3, 2008 by joost
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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 ole Zed. Ouch! Brutal!

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