ActiveSupport::Multibyte Updated · Fingertips
coverage of some ActiveSupport::Multibyte changes that happened back in 2008
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Catalog support
What is a catalog? Basically it's a lookup mechanism used when an entity (a file or a remote resource) references another entity. The catalog lookup is inserted between the moment the reference is recognized by the software (XML parser, stylesheet processing, or even images referenced for inclusion in a rendering) and the time where loading that resource is actually started.
node.js
interesting presetation on node.js - a server side, non blocking IO library for javascript
Video: Node.js by Ryan Dahl - JSConf.eu - The JavaScript Conference
On Baked Potatoes
A voice in the comments wondered “And what do you call ‘properly baked’?” A harmless enough question, but then aluminium foil was mentioned; shudder. Please don’t do that. Here’s how to bake potatoes correctly.
The Facts About Bottled Water [Infographic] - ReflectionOf.Me
Work.show_progress " Blog Archive " Sending prawn documents with ...
Why I think Mongo is to Databases what Rails was to Frameworks ...
help.4xpdf.com
stack overflow style site for PDF related questions
PDF questions - where should you ask them
A nice summary of places on the net to ask PDF file format related questions
10 Words You Need to Stop Misspelling - The Oatmeal
Cheap Cracks - Of dictionaries and rainbows - The H Security: News and Features
Modern cryptological attacks can crack mobile phone calls, as well as debit and credit card systems, in seconds. The trick is to find a practical compromise between computing time and memory space with the help of precomputed tables. Probably no algorithm is immune to such an approach, but special techniques can thwart such attacks.
Startup therapy: Six questions to ask yourself regularly | VentureBeat
You’re smart. You’ll make good decisions. But you also get bogged down in daily minutiae and putting out fires, meanwhile missing the big picture. That’s where this piece comes in: To splash cold water on your face, forcing you to face reality and continue to defend or change the important choices inside your business.
Re: [Valgrind-users] debugging gtk-related memory leaks
when running a threaded glib app through valgrind (to find leaks) you need to set an environment variable toensure private heap allocations by glib can be tracked by valgrind.
Writing Ruby Extensions - by Giancarlo Bellido
Valgrind
tops on using valgrind to find memory leaks
The Ruby Toolbox: Know your options!
ftps - RFC4217 - state of play
Cryptic Ruby Global Variables and Their Meanings | Purify Blog
gist: cucumber sample from pat
ruby-epub - Project Hosting on Google Code
EPUB Resources and Guides - O'Reilly Labs
ongoing · Doing It Wrong
Tim Bray with an interesting article on "enterprise" software eng
Amazon's Kindle winning battle, but Adobe poised to win eBook war
Barnes & Noble, Sony and other eBook vendors may be the manufacturing brawn in the ongoing e-reader war, but the brains directing the challenge against Amazon.com Inc.'s market-leading Kindle is Adobe Systems Inc.
RFC 2389: Feature negotiation mechanism for the File Transfer Protocol
enTourage eDGe: the dual-screen eBook reader | PC Pro blog
Lost - Recap Season 1 - 5 In 8 Minutes And 40 Seconds - Entertainment News
E-books lack the magic of the real thing
Books have a smell, a feel and a meaning no bit of plastic can match
Learn You a Haskell for Great Good!
django CMS | Installation | Documentation
some interesting docs on installing complex apps to a django project