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Calculating Color Contrast for Legible Text

March 11th, 2010 · No Comments

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!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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Tags: code · web

The problem with passwords by A List Apart

February 9th, 2010 · No Comments

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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Tags: code · web

Carsonifed.com post: Bulletproof backups for MySQL

February 4th, 2010 · No Comments

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

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Tags: code · database · install · mysql · security · sysadmin · web

Good post about a possible issue with Passenger, Interlock, Cache Fu and Memcached

February 3rd, 2010 · No Comments

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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Tags: Rails Plugins · code · rails · ruby · sysadmin · web

More Rails 3 post!

February 1st, 2010 · No Comments

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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A good security checklist from Sarah Allen

January 28th, 2010 · No Comments

http://www.ultrasaurus.com/sarahblog/2010/01/rails-security-review-checklist/

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Tips for sending email from web sites

January 26th, 2010 · No Comments

A good list of things to check and setup for sending emails from a website:
http://www.webresourcesdepot.com/tips-for-sending-valid-e-mails-from-websites/

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Tags: email · install · sysadmin · web

Jason Calacanis’s latest revolution: Down with ComScore

January 25th, 2010 · No Comments

http://calacanis.com/2010/01/23/why-we-should-boycott-comscore-and-perhaps-why-traders-should-short-their-stock/

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Tags: business · news · web

good rails blog posts

January 25th, 2010 · No Comments

Permanent Link to Polymorphic association support added to searchlogic
http://www.binarylogic.com/2010/01/23/polymorphic-association-support-added-to-searchlogic/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+binarylogic+%28Binary+Logic%29
more page dynamics, less client logic
http://pivotallabs.com/users/jb/blog/articles/1134-more-page-dynamics-less-client-logic

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Tim Bray about Enterprise “Doing it Wrong”

January 22nd, 2010 · No Comments

http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2010/01/02/Doing-It-Wrong

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Tags: web