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End of the line

over 1 year ago by Daniel Butler on Yup Dot Com.
Hello scattered readers, I will be closing this blog at the end of 2010. Something new will be taking its place. Cheers!...

Teaching Kids to Hack with Hackety Hack

~5 years ago by Daniel Butler on Yup Dot Com.
Ruby’s own Edgar Allan Poe, _why the lucky stiff, mastermind of the continually-evolving Why’s (Poignant) Guide to Ruby and Try Ruby!, has...

No Reservations about Keywords in Ruby on Rails

over 5 years ago by Daniel Butler on Yup Dot Com.
Have you ever had the urge to name a data model in your Ruby on Rails application something obvious, like Action, Table, File, Columns, or Database? Well...

Refresh Tallahassee Group Now Forming

over 5 years ago by Daniel Butler on Yup Dot Com.
Mike Houghton invites all web technologists in the Tallahassee area to the first meeting of Refresh Tallahassee on Thursday, December 7 at 6:30 pm at...

Better Subversion External Branch Management with Piston

over 5 years ago by Daniel Butler on Yup Dot Com.
Subversion exports can be difficult to manage in your Ruby on Rails application, especially if you want to make local changes to a vendor-supplied plugin...

Rails Plugins Made Even Easier with RaPT

over 5 years ago by Daniel Butler on Yup Dot Com.
Wow, can discovering and installing helpful Rails plugins get any simpler than this? $ gem install rapt Successfully installed rapt-0.2.1 $ rapt search...

Ruby FlexImage Plugin Now Especially Effective

over 5 years ago by Daniel Butler on Yup Dot Com.
Alex Wayne has updated his FlexImage plugin for Ruby on Rails, and it now allows for all sorts of special effects such as translucent overlays, drop shadows...

Exploitable Denial of Service in Ruby's cgi.rb Library

over 5 years ago by Daniel Butler on Yup Dot Com.
Zed Shaw, author of Mongrel, has provided a fix for the exploitable error in Ruby’s cgi.rb library. The error occurs when incorrectly crafted MIME...

What is the Ruby Way?

over 5 years ago by Daniel Butler on Yup Dot Com.
Hal Fulton, a computer scientist from Austin, Texas, has graciously provided an updated second edition of The Ruby Way. An article at InfoQ provides a thoughtful...

New Ruby Web Application Framework: Merb

over 5 years ago by Daniel Butler on Yup Dot Com.
Ezra Zygmuntowicz of Yakima, Washington, has announced a new lightweight Ruby web application framework: Merb, named by combining the lightweight HTTP application...