Dave Elkins

I have built and release the GroopBuyr gem at http://github.com/elkinsware/groopbuyr. This is a simple wrapper around the GroopBuy API to get deals through their api. GroopBuy is a company that aggregates deals from many sites like GroupOn, LivingSocial and others so you can find all the deals for a city in one place. The API [...]

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http://www.colourlovers.com/web/blog/2010/03/11/calculating-color-contrast-for-legible-text http://particletree.com/notebook/calculating-color-contrast-for-legible-text/ http://wufoo.com/ http://wufoo.com/2008/09/16/report-upgrades-and-new-graphs/ http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.hexdec.php#74092 http://www.barelyfitz.com/ http://www.barelyfitz.com/projects/csscolor/

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http://timetobleed.com/garbage-collection-slides-from-la-ruby-conference/ It goes into a lot of details about how ruby allocates memory and how the GC works.  Also, talks about tracking down memory leaks.

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http://edgerails.info/articles/what-s-new-in-edge-rails/2010/02/23/the-skinny-on-scopes-formerly-named-scope/

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http://www.subelsky.com/2010/02/using-rubys-queue-class-to-manage-inter.html A good post by Mike Subelsky about Ruby Queues.

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http://www.alistapart.com/articles/the-problem-with-passwords/ An interesting article about making password entry a little more user friendly and the hazards.

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http://carsonified.com/blog/dev/bulletproof-backups-for-mysql/

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Good post about a possible issue with Passenger, Interlock, Cache Fu and Memcached http://plasti.cx/2010/02/03/getting-passenger-to-play-nice-with-interlock-cache_fu-and-memcached

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Rails 3 Scripts have moved find where to find them: http://lindsaar.net/2010/2/3/where-did-the-scripts-go

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SafeBuffers by Katz – http://yehudakatz.com/2010/02/01/safebuffers-and-rails-3-0 New Validation Methods by lindsaar.net – http://lindsaar.net/2010/1/31/validates_rails_3_awesome_is_true rails-upgrade plugin by omgboglol – http://omgbloglol.com/post/364624593/rails-upgrade-is-now-an-official-plugin

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