DNS Vulnerability Now in the Wild
Dan Kaminsky's upcoming Black Hat preso on the recently discovered DNS cache posioning vulnerability has just been upstaged by its release into the... more »
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Know Every HTML Tag There Is
The question is do you know all the HTML tags? Do you know exactly how they work and what each tag does? And the most important of all, how each tag... more »
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Coding Horror: iTunes is Anti-Web
Ever find yourself clicking on links to music or videos and getting blasted in the face with this delightful little number?
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The Erlang hype is grotesque
bloid 
via stephan.reposita.org
Take for example this recent post on hacker news with the title “Amazon and Google Discover Erlang (IMDB is switching from Perl to Erlang)”. There in... more »
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EXT JS 2.1 Overview
EXT JS is a feature-packed and cross-browser RIA framework built from JavaScript and CSS that seriously reduces the development time of Web 2.0... more »
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List of Firebug Extensions
Have you ever been interested in what extensions are available for Firebug? If yes, take a look at what I have found. Frankly, I was quite surprised... more »
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Ruby Editors - The Choices For Non-Mac And Non-VI People
I'm on a Mac most of the time and TextMate will be pried out of my cold dead fingers. But when I'm on my Ubuntu box, glad to see there's a growing... more »
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The unary ampersand in Ruby
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A marshmallow toasting dragon slayer from Montréal asked about the unary &. I like this question, because when I saw it, I realized immediately... more »
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The Weekly Source Code 29 - Ruby and Shoes and the First Ruby Virus
This week's source is a clever "ClickOnce"-style hack for Ruby. It's cool because it brings together a number of technologies into a very clean... more »
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Domain Specific Languages in Erlang
People are talking about Erlang. This talk is disproportionately about concurrency rather than any of the other powerful properties of the platform,... more »
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Review of the screencast series The Ruby Object Model and Metaprogramming (episodes 1-3)
Even if you’re new to the Ruby community, you are unlikely not to have heard about the Pragmatic Programmers, who are well reputed for publishing... more »
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Fuzed and EC2: Scale Rails big and fast!
First of all, this post is about 2 things that rock. One is Fuzed, the new Erlang web glue that runs Rails on the Erlang-based Yaws web server, put... more »
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Move Over, AJAX, ARAX Is Here
Move over, AJAX; Microsoft is pushing a different scenario, known as Asynchronous Ruby and XML, or ARAX.
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Headius: Inspiration from RailsConf
RailsConf 2008 is over, and it was by far better than last year. I'm not one for drawn-out conference wrap-up posts so here's a summary of my most... more »
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Ultra-Cool JavaScript Information Visualization Toolkit (JIT)
The JIT implements advanced features of information visualization like Treemaps (with the slice and dice and squarified methods), an adapted... more »
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MagLev rocks and the planning of the next Ruby shootout
This post covers a couple of topics: 1) Why MagLev matters; 2) My plan for the next Ruby shootout.
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21 Ruby Tricks You Should Be Using In Your Own Code
In this post I present 21 different Ruby tricks, from those that most experienced developers already use every day to those that are more obscure.... more »
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The creator of Ruby explains why Ruby sucks
Matz, the creator of Ruby, explains the problems Ruby faces in the "Vision for the future" Conference.
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Ruby on Rails - a paper dragon?
When Ruby on Rails started to gain some momentum a year or so ago, I decided to take another look at the Ruby language itself along with the Rails web... more »
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Ruby on Rails, Passenger (ModRails) vs CodeIgniter and Kohana
Today, when someone was asking on a forum about the efficiency of web frameworks, I thought I’d give the few frameworks I work with some more... more »
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Ruby: An EventMachine Tutorial
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Ruby / EventMachine is an event-driven networking library for Ruby, similar to Twisted for Python. Certain aspects of it are also similar to... more »
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Announcing the Ruboss Framework
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Dima and I have been working hard on the Ruboss Framework: a framework that aims to take Flex and Rails development to the next level by making the... more »
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Software Development AntiPatterns
An AntiPattern is a pattern that tells how to go from a problem to a bad solution. For example: The Blob, Continuous Obsolescence, Lava Flow and more.
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Processing.js
I've ported the Processing visualization language to JavaScript, using the Canvas element. I've been working on this project, off-and-on now, for the... more »
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