September 2007
15 posts
A tour of git: the basics →
a git book modeled after the hg book.
Ruby in Javascript →
Yes, JavaScript is underrated. A lot of the things we do with Ruby can be done with JavaScript
WatchBest Practices in JavaScript Library Design (via Google Video)
Rails Envy: ActiveRecord Tutorial →
# Who invented ActiveRecord and why
# How to use ActiveRecord
# Basic model to table mapping
# has_many relationships
# Magical counter fields
# Many to many relationships
# has_many => through
# Polymorphic relationships
# acts_as_taggable
Confreaks: Ruby Hoedown 2007 →
Rails performance tip - using YSlow →
Bloom Filter
is a space-efficient probabilistic data structure that is used to test whether an element is a member of a set. False positives are possible, but false negatives are not. Elements can be added to the set, but not removed (though this can be addressed with a counting filter). The more elements that are added to the set, the larger the probability of false positives. From wikipedia - text is...
