Monthly Archives: February 2007

Why IntelliJ will always win

Besides my reasons for loving IntelliJ with respect to the keyboard support, I have found a new reason why IntelliJ will always be a better solution and well worth the money. They actually fix bugs. You buy the product and … Continue reading

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Handling strange Rails URLs

Came across an interesting situation where my Rails application was going to be receiving URLs with characters like – (dash) and . (period or dot). Something like this: http://example.com/my_controller/action-with-odd.characters Ruby doesn’t allow dashes or periods in identifiers, so this was … Continue reading

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Harry potter madness!

I got the official email from Borders today about pre-ordering my copy of the next Harry Potter book. Unfortunately their online ordering system for the book has been down all day. They obviously weren’t expecting such a huge response and … Continue reading

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