Quoted: There are a lot of problems/solutions that I've come across repeatedly when doing community software, by which I mean software where a person has a presence (profile, homepage, avatar...) and they can do stuff that others can see and interact with. I found some stuff about social software patterns. There's a lot of good stuff there but it's at a pretty

Quoted: Presenter Pattern Marcel Molina Presenter is a way to organize view code. Helpers are just a bucketto throw methods in - not very organized. Presenter is a class -shared state and shared behavior and it has access to all of the viewcode. A presenter could wrap a specific model. For example, we could try toload presenters for every activerecord object

Quoted: At the Robot Coop Xen and Deploying Rails Ezra Zygmuntowicz Mongrel is an http server (written with a Ragel state machine) andreplacement for fastcgi. Nginx can be used to proxy mongrel, do rewrites, and serve staticfiles. Very efficient. memcached module built in for static cached html. Perfect simple stack: linux, nginx, mongrel, monit Swiftiply

Quoted: Ruby is all about metaprogramming - it's part of what makes Rails sogreat, enabling things like belongs_to, dynamically created accessorsbased on database tables, etc. I use a lot of it in my own code, butsometimes I feel like I'm just waving magic words around by trial anderror - includes? extends? inherited? aliasmethodchain? andcopying stuff

Quoted: Even though I like dogs I don't have one because I don't want the responsibility of taking care of one. So I think a good test of whether I want to do something is whether the satisfaction/fun/enjoyment to work/time/commitment ratio works out better than that (because otherwise I should get a dog instead). A short list of things that I consider not

Quoted: Purslane sounds like something the killer bunnies in Watership Down would eat, and it looks like a jade plant. But yes, you can eat it. I got a small bunch from the farm this week, and they suggested lightly sauteeing, so I used my standard leafy greens recipe: Standard Leafy Greens Recipe large, wide pan (eg. 14 inch wok) high-heat-able oil (tea

Wow I don't even know what the "2007 TBR Challenge" is.

Quoted: The Web is a magical place. I joined the 2007 TBR Challenge on 43 Things yesterday.

magazine of craziness that I randomly picked up a few months ago.

Quoted: Wend provides bold tales to fuel the passion of adventure, born from the love of climbing, bicycling, surfing, kayaking and backpacking.