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Business / Moo Cards Bandwagon

almost 5 years ago by Ilya Grigorik on igvita.com.
I’ve decided to spice things up a little and ordered myself a set of ‘Moo‘ business / blog promotion cards. Each one of these is about...

Ferret Pagination in Rails

almost 5 years ago by Ilya Grigorik on igvita.com.
Gregg Pollack put up a great guide to showcase the power of act_as_ferret plugin earlier today. On its own, Ferret is a Ruby port of the Lucene search engine...

Easy PDF Photo-Calendars in Ruby

almost 5 years ago by Ilya Grigorik on igvita.com. [Linked from: Ruby Inside]
    Looking at the sample calendars above you would think that humanity has failed - each day is represented by a lead image from the BBC News and seems...

Client HTTP Caching in Rails

almost 5 years ago by Ilya Grigorik on igvita.com.
Of all the available caching methods, client caching is both one of the most powerful, and most overlooked. I admit, I’m guilty of this myself! So...

Agile RSS Aggregator in Ruby

almost 5 years ago by Ilya Grigorik on igvita.com. [Linked from: Ruby Inside, a work on process]
A liberal RSS aggregator in 26 lines of Ruby - may be hard to believe, but it’s true. On top of that, it is also capable of serving static files,...

.NET the Ruby Way

almost 5 years ago by Ilya Grigorik on igvita.com.
MSDN’s Channel 9 recently ran an interesting interview with Dr. Wayne Kelly, the creator of Ruby.Net. Having some experience with .NET, and being...

Secure UTF-8 input in Rails

almost 5 years ago by Ilya Grigorik on igvita.com.
Approximately 64.2 percent of online users do not speak English. Ok, so once we adjust these numbers to take into account second-language speakers, this...

Decision Tree Learning in Ruby

almost 5 years ago by Ilya Grigorik on igvita.com.
You’ve built a vibrant community of Family Guy enthusiasts. The SVD recommendation algorithm took your site to the next level by allowing you to leverage...

Invoking Ruby in C# / .NET

almost 5 years ago by Ilya Grigorik on igvita.com.
In my previous post, .NET the Ruby Way, I looked at the newly released Ruby.NET compiler developed at Queensland University. I managed to do some interop...

Web Security With Ingress Filtering

almost 5 years ago by Ilya Grigorik on igvita.com.
You’re under a siege, you know you can fight them off, but only if the opponent doesn’t get any insider information about the weak points -...