Tom And Lisa

James Doohan’s house is up for sale close to ours - same price too! Looks like this one’s not selling quickly either.

The latest from Paul Graham

Quoted: Do you use Apache to perform your authentication and want to hook this into your Rails app? Me too! I’ve just published a simple plugin that uses the REMOTE_USER variable set by Apache authentication modules to load up your User model and ensure the user is authenticated for the controllers and actions you care about. Check out the Authenticate

I’m using this in a project, and so far all is well

Quoted: Comatose is a micro CMS, implemented as a Rails plugin, that is designed to be easy to embed and extend.

Quoted: I’ve just checked in three fixes for the action_cache plugin. Don’t send cookie headers when serving cached responses (the original response will be untouched) Always use 2 cache fragments for action cache entries. This avoids the escape/unescape overhead for the body and speeds cache serving up and reduces the code complexity a little Remove

Someone patented the Linked List!

Actually, the patent is for a version of a doubly linked list, but still - this is crazy.

Quoted: A computerized list is provided with auxiliary pointers for traversing the list in different sequences. One or more auxiliary pointers enable a fast, sequential traversal …

Quoted: they are taking something that was so complex to begin with and adding more complexity in order to make it simple

Should be an entry at the Daily WTF.

Redotting for those that are looking to protect against Bump Keys

Quoted: Not exactly the perfect mouser…

Quoted: I was going to write a great post about Rails page caching, but then I found Gregg’s post about page caching There are two points I’d like to make to add to the Rails page cache knowledge base. Firstly, if you use paging in your cached actions, then you must use the FileUtils method for sweeping these pages (unless you want to write code that checks

Quoted: This evening, I added page caching to a Rails app I’m building. I want to cache the top page of the site (the index action), so I added the caches_page :index to the correct controller. All was going well until I deployed to a ‘production’ server. Doing a View/Source on my web page, I see urls that looked like http:// /foo/bar with a space replacing

Too much money for too little production? Need his cash to pay Kerney?

Quoted: You have to admire the sheer chutzpah of the treble Zonda owner who phoned up Pagani and said, ‘Yeah, not bad, but don’t you reckon it’s a bit… well, slow?’

I’ll have to put in some overtime if Lisa is to get her Zonda….