tomfakes | Shared With: Everyone - May 29 2008 | blogsQuoted: In the Facebook Developer Application, the act of deleting an application does have a confirmation page, but it isn't very clear on what application is being deleted - there is the name of the application, but not the picture or icon. And the delete works even if you have thousands of users. Ask me how I found this out, I dare you!
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Quoted: I've been using the new Rails feature of named_scope for my current project. One thing I do for all new pages is to check the Rails development.log file to make sure that the SQL queries I'm expecting are actually the ones that are executed. Typically, my controller will run the queries to get all the data, and the views will use the results to display
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Quoted: Check out our Craigslist posting We've had a lot of response from Microsoft stack people, some Java, a few PHP people and a few people with no programming experience at all. We got really lucky with our first attempt a few months ago - we ended up hiring the first person to respond to the listing (which is kind of scary). Perhaps now we're hitting
- tomfakes | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 27 2008 | blogs
Quoted: I have the first version of this book, and have just used parts of this, the second version, to help setup a new MySQL server in a production environment. This book has saved me hours already. Worth the price, right there. If you do stuff with MySQL, you must have this book.
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Quoted: I recently read jPod:amazon:0747585873 the book by Douglas Coupland. Its a pretty good book, kind of weird - perhaps Quirky is a good description. As a programmer in the video game industry, its kind of required reading It turns our that CBC in Canada turned this into a TV Show) This story works much better as a TV show!
ShareViewed: 1 Time - tomfakes | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 08 2008 | blogs
Quoted: I'm diagnosing a load problem with a server, and ATOP has helped me a lot. For Ubuntu - 'apt-get install atop' works fine. Here is the ATOP home page
ShareViewed: 1 Time - tomfakes | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 05 2008 | blogs
Quoted: I tracked down a performance issue in my code today that was pretty subtle. I have a table with a varchar column that contains a number, mainly for size reasons. This column has an index all to itself, so queries using the column should be pretty snappy, but they weren't. My code went something like this: find(:all, :conditions => "my_col
ShareViewed: 1 Time - tomfakes | Shared With: Everyone - May 30 2008 | blogs
Quoted: As far as I can tell, Facebook is always broken. Ok, they do seem to struggle on serving users, but a lot of functionality breaks on Facebook every day. I've seen no press on this, I guess the vultures are all circling around Twitter. Here's some examples over the last 2 months: Today - The category selection tabs in the Application directory broke.
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Quoted: Many would say yes, but Tom Standage would beg to differ in his book The Victorian Internet Mr Standage tells the story of the people who created the telegraph system starting at the end of the 18th century, and leading to Samuel Morse and the first electric system in the US. He goes into the social aspects of suddenly being able to be in touch
- tomfakes | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 08 2008 | blogs
Quoted: One of the interesting things about Facebook is that, of the interesting pages on Facebook, everyone sees a different version of that page. Search is clearly filtered to show stuff that is more relevant to you first. Your 'facebook' page has stuff filtered out depending on what Facebook thinks is interesting to you (with input from the tiny 'Preferences'
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