Monthly Archives: April 2008

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It seems that comment spam and blog comments have done some subtle damage.

You see, until just now, I had Wordpress set so that only previously-approved authors got automatically accepted for comments. I figured, that was enough — if you’ve posted before, no problem. Otherwise, hold for moderation, and I’d just accept the real comments.

Then I [...]

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links for 2008-04-12

Pragmatic Programmers: Rails Play Time Other peoples’ solutions to the extra exercises in the AWDWR book (tags: rails reference ruby wiki)

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links for 2008-04-11

Jannis Leidel ¬ª Resurrecting MissingDrawer plugin for TextMate Drawers are so 10.1. The MissingDrawer plugin changes the TextMate project to a sidebar, like it’s 2008 and not 2002. (tags: [...]

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links for 2008-04-10

Eli Bendersky‚Äôs website ¬ª Blog Archive ¬ª Understanding Ruby blocks, Procs and methods Ruby blocks are beautiful magic. Procs are, um, a little more opaque to me, about how they’re useful. Trying to get it, though. [...]

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links for 2008-04-09

Police report hell Police report scan. Oh, just click. (tags: humor funny photo recap wtf)

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links for 2008-04-06

How to create a WordPress theme: A guide for the design-challenged non-geek | Leon Kilat ::: The Cybercafe Experiments Wordpress theming is still one of those things that I keep on almost taking off the back [...]

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links for 2008-04-02

DoubleCommand A kernel extension to remap your keyboard in OS X 10.4 and 10.5; lets you remap Caps Lock to be something useful, and lets you use the home and end keys in the PC-type behavior, [...]

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links for 2008-04-01

Do Not Reply Lazy IT people use @donotreply.com email addresses in their software or services? The bounces get published on donotreply.com, which is publicly owned. Hilarity ensues. (tags: funny [...]

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