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The best way to implement joins with BigTable is: don’t. You–pause for dramatic effect–duplicate data instead of normalize it. *shudder*
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if Summize’s publisher strategy is successful, it also stands to drive a lot of mainstream adoption to Twitter.
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Lockdown is an authentication / authorization system for Rails (ver 2.x). It includes support for user groups and permissions with a nice Ruby syntax to enforce the security constraints.
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We’ve amassed a collection of podcasts that are either directly about web design, or would be helpful to a web designer.
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the biggest benefit of Rails is that “it will get you to market faster than any framework out there.” The rub: That time to market will cost you less development time, but once it’s in production it may require more servers. “That’s a good trade
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Sometimes the individual person holds one role, but mainly he will hold quite a few roles like consumer, customer, user, client, investor, producer, creator, participant, partner, part of a community, member, and so on.
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The only conclusion I can draw is that building a compelling application is far more important than choice of language. While PHP wouldn’t be my choice, I can’t argue with the results.
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Rubular is a Ruby-based regular expression editor. It’s a handy way to test regular expressions as you write them.
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We could have gone about trying to fix Meetro but the team was just ready to move on. Raising money on the flat growth we had was nearly impossible.