Ryan's Scraps: What's New in Edge Rails: Partial Updates
partial updates in rails 2.1 - generated SQL only updates changed attributes, not all of them
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Ryan's Scraps: What's New in Edge Rails: UTC-based Migration Versioning
more rails 2.1 goodness
An unhealthy dose of bitumen for Melbourne - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Provider for Google Calendar :: Thunderbird Add-ons
ExitReality
dunno what it is, but Rory and Ade have been working on it
Optus - About Optus - Optus confirms technology and vendor choice for national 3G roll out
Optus' expanded 3g rollout (over 2100MHz and 900MHz) will mean affordable mobile net access with decent coverage. yah!
Setting up hua wei optus mdm in linux - Optus - Wireless ISPs
setting up the modem Optus uses for it's HSDPA plans under linux
Huawei E220 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
wikipedia article on the device used for Optus HSDPA internet access
Bubulle's weblog: IP over DNS for dummies
free net from paid hotspots
Sinatra
Windows Terminal Services Printing
lucas_el_diablo: y2k bug
lucas pondering the geeky details of the y2k bug
RubyForge: Barby: Project Info
Barby is a pure-Ruby barcode generator
Slapp: A simple chat wall Merb tutorial.
Kipling - Gitorious
a bug/issue tracker that stores it's data in git
schacon's ticgit at master — GitHub
another bug/issue tracker that uses git for storage
schacon's munger at master — GitHub
an alternative to ruport for reporting in Ruby
Ruport vs. Munger
comparison of ruport and munger for various tasks, written by the author of Munger
%w(Akita On Rails) * 2.0 / Chatting with Chris Wanstrath (Err the Blog/Github)
great interview with one of the founders of github
Publishing: Print On Demand
nice overview of POD issues in the publishing industry
Simple Shoes
Simon Rumble: How much should we prop up the remote regions?
how much should australian metro telcomms users subsidise rural users?
Vegetarian diet: How to get the best nutrition - MayoClinic.com
Freelancing Gods: Sphinx: A Primer
pat's intro to sphinx
* * Mailing list Community * Documentation * Articles * Contributed software * Forum * Bug tracker * Wiki * Contacts Commercial services * Support and consulting * Commercial licensing Misc * Powere
useful discussion on indexing utf-8 in sphinx. Includes folding accented chars tio match their un-accented bretheren
CodeProject: Stripping Accents from Latin Characters: A Foray into Unicode Normalization. Free source code and programming help
Ditz
yet another ticket tracking system designed for use with DVCS
Draft Unicode Tech Report #30: Character Foldings
This report identifies a set of operations that map similar characters to a common target. Such operations, called character foldings are used to ignore certain distinctions between similar characters.
Skinny Controllers, Skinny Models
If models are getting kind of large, it may be possible to split some of the logic out into non-DB models
Using PDF::API2 - The Code
tutorial to one of the more popular PDF generation libs for perl