Why do we, the “computer people” (those who are developers or IT people), seem to be the ones who fail to backup our systems more than anyone else? We often stress the importance of frequently “backing up your data” yet, at least in the circles I run in, we seem to fail to backup [...]
I finally started using a pretty handy feature of ActiveRecord: delegate attributes. I first came across the delegate syntax while looking through the Mephisto codebase a while back. Mephisto has the following line in one of their models:
Well, no I’m not really late to the party. I’ve just finally dumped and reinstated my blog on my personal domain. Over the past 12 months, this URL has hosted 3 different blogs, been mirrored to 2 other sites, and been parked. Quite a bit of turmoil in such a short timeframe.
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