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Ben
Dec 262011
Ever wondered if you can use gmail’s web UI to send emails using Ruby? The answer is YES!
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Nov 252011
Here is a code sample to do just that.
But keep in mind, this filters the title in maybe all places the title shows up, including the admin.
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I posted an ad to sell my iPhone 3G with a cracked screen.
In the last 3 hours, I’ve received about 10 spam responses in broken English asking me to text or call a local number.
There is no way 10 people are interested in an iPhone 3G with a cracked screen. Whazup??
Oct 262011
Stephen King’s book, On Writing is great. In it, he talks about how he can spend months writing a book only to see the story hit a dead end. He throws the whole book out.
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Oct 152011
I’ll just go ahead and proclaim myself the King of Craigslist until somebody else steps forward. I think I did more business than any single person last year. (By the way, freelance programmers, try Ben’s Gigs – shameless plug!).
This article is about how to find good help with your project.
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Looks like Facebook is phasing out FBML. Too bad that I wrote a bunch of FBML code, but good for everyone else. iFrame is the way to go.
The Click framework makes easy work out of iFrame development for Facebook. Maybe I’ll put together a demo app – if I can bring myself to re-activate my Facebook account. I’ve been really enjoying being off the grid. So much easier to date girls!
Oct 072011
Alost every WordPress theme includes a 404.php theme file for those unfortunate cases where WordPress cannot find the URL path requested.
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Oct 042011
Today I was working on a stand-alone web site that was very poorly designed. I took it as an opportunity to introduce Click into the system so I could get some ActiverRecord support instead of doing raw mysql queries.
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There is a lot of confusion online about how to use a private SSH key with coda. Here’s how on OS X.
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