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Re:printf("goodbye, Dennis"); on Saturday October 22, 2011 @03:59AM (#3143127)
Pure class from The Economist
This's pretty good if it's just CSS
Re:Keymaster.js: painless keyboard shortcuts for javascript on Monday August 29, 2011 @06:25AM (#2936656)
Why do we have a semicolon at the start?

;(function(global)

Re:Can PostgreSQL pickup where MySQL left off? on Monday August 29, 2011 @06:19AM (#2936640)
thanks for all these points. I am doing a presentation tomorrow on the same and all these points will help!
Re:Stop using SQLite for Rails dev on Monday August 29, 2011 @02:00AM (#2936138)
Just for the info, for all those using SQLLite with Rails, check this add-on https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sqlite-manage...
Re:Stop using SQLite for Rails dev on Monday August 29, 2011 @01:45AM (#2936107)
SQLite is a good engine, but it's still an in process (or desktop) style engine. In process engines have inherent weaknesses in terms of concurrency that make them a fundamentally poor choice over server-based engines like MySQL for web sites or other scenarios with the potential for a lot of simultaneous write access.