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Indispensable Rails Plugins · Kev.in
http://kev.in/2007/09/04/indispensable-rails-plugins.html
Obie Fernandez's post about his most favored plugins. Prompted me to consider how much I use not only the Rails core framework, but also some excellent plugins that let me focus more on solving domain problems rather than technical ones. Below, the plugins I find indispensable in my work on Dibs.net. Dibsnet relies on these great plugins, some hacked slightly to suit my needs. These plugins have saved me months of work and enabled far greater functionality to be built-in from the start. Have done some am...
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Kev.in · It was a musical thing and you were supposed to sing.
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It was a musical thing and you were supposed to sing. We thought of life by analogy with a journey, with a pilgrimage, which had a serious purpose at the end, the thing was to get to that end, 'success' or whatever it is or maybe heaven, after you're dead. But we missed the point the whole way along. It was a musical thing and you were supposed to sing, or to dance, while the music was being played.". I'm really excited to announce the opening of dibs.net. Why did I build dibs.net? Personal account URLs,...
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Microsoft adCenter vs Google Adwords (Round 1) · Kev.in
http://kev.in/2007/08/23/microsoft-adcenter-vs-google-adwords-round-1.html
Microsoft adCenter vs Google Adwords (Round 1). At the risk of being called a keyword Nazi and having to endure accusations that I care just a little too much about this stuff: Microsoft just managed surpass my experience with Yahoo. As I mentioned, I've been advertising my. Online community classifieds site. On Google for almost a month. Last night I decided to try out Microsoft's advertising network for my. I copied some of my better performing ads from my. On Google into my. I think we can all agree c...
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Restoring Rails session data when cookies aren't available · Kev.in
http://kev.in/2007/08/31/restoring-rails-session-data-when-cookies-arent-available.html
Restoring Rails session data when cookies aren't available. If you've ever needed to implement user-friendly upload, you know intimately what a pain it is to get right. The web just isn't built for uploading files from a browser. I mean, it kinda works, but even then only with a dozen or so limitations. Even the major photo and video sites have tried various solutions to make this easier for users. So when I built Dibs.net. Rails doesn't support non-cookie sessions. I use a modified version of the. Plugi...