The Clear Cache Button has been updated with Firefox 6
compatibility.
it may take a little time for the Firefox add-on team to review
and approve the update. In the mean time, you can get it here:
http://chrisholtz.com/clearcachebutton.
Firefox 6 support
Mon, Aug 15, 2011
Firefox 5 support
Mon, Jun 27, 2011
The Clear Cache Button has been updated with Firefox 5
compatibility.
it may take a little time for the Firefox add-on team to review and approve the update. In the mean time, you can get it here: http://chrisholtz.com/clearcachebutton.
it may take a little time for the Firefox add-on team to review and approve the update. In the mean time, you can get it here: http://chrisholtz.com/clearcachebutton.
Firefox 4 Compatibility
Tue, Mar 22, 2011
edit: The Clear Cache Button is fully Firefox 4 compatible.
A Firefox 5 compatible version has been submitted to the Firefox
Add-on team.
Sit tight Clear Cache Button users and check back here soon; Firefox 4 compatibility is on the way.
Once ready, it will be submitted to the Firefox add-on site. There is usually a few days wait before it is officially approved. If you want/need it before then I'll post a link here too.
Thank you for your patience folks.
Honeypot captcha
Sat, Jun 19, 2010
Phil over at Haccked.com has an interesting alternative to typical
captcha validation.
I really like this approach - it is much less invasive than the usual word verification. I haven't implemented comments here yet, but I'll probably apply this when I do.
"create a honeypot form field that should be left blank and
then use CSS to hide it from human users, but not bots.
When the form is submitted, you check to make sure the value
of that form field is blank."
I really like this approach - it is much less invasive than the usual word verification. I haven't implemented comments here yet, but I'll probably apply this when I do.
Simplify your ruby hash injects with hmap
Mon, May 31, 2010
Have you ever had the pleasure of playing family tech support?
I do! That's why I'm spending memorial day afternoon running windows updates.
Woo! What to do while waiting... browse the Internet, check; clean likely
malware candidates off their PCs, check; Zone out while listening to the wind,
check. Oh! I can write a blog post about ruby inject!
Actually, I want to talk specifically about using the Hash class with inject.
If you have a hash with a bunch of keys that are strings that you would like
to convert to symbols, you'd do something like this:
>> x = { "first_name" => "John", "last_name" => "Smith" }
=> {"last_name"=>"Smith", "first_name"=>"John"}
>> x.inject({}){ |hash,(k,v)| hash.merge( k.to_sym => v) }
=> {:last_name=>"Smith", :first_name=>"John"}
=> {"last_name"=>"Smith", "first_name"=>"John"}
>> x.inject({}){ |hash,(k,v)| hash.merge( k.to_sym => v) }
=> {:last_name=>"Smith", :first_name=>"John"}
How to extract a URL out of a string the easy way
Mon, May 24, 2010
Have you ever been tasked to convert all instances of a URL into a hyperlink from some source of text? Or perhaps you had to pipe all URL instances through a URL shortener?
I've had to do this from time to time over the last several years (the first stab a it was a miserable piece of code but got the job done), and every time I have had to deal with the same quirks: what if the URL is at the end of a sentence, what if it is at the end of a line, what if it is immediately followed by an html page break, etc.
Dear god, what have I done to deserve this?
Slicehost and Heroku compared for low volume web sites
Tue, May 18, 2010
Slicehost is an excellent hosting platform - I've been using them for some time now. However, in the interest of trying to drive costs down to absolute zero, I started evaluating Heroku as a platform to host this site.
Slicehost
If you're not familiar, Heroku and Slicehost differ structurally: Slicehost provides you with a virtual instance of Linux - most major distributions are available. It's your job to configure/manage the web application framework.
This opens a world of flexibilty - you can deploy any web-based solution you like backed by the database of your choosing. This is incredibly empowering - but you own everything, including downtime (at least downtime not incurred by Slicehost), maintenance updates, security, etc.
Comparing web hosts
Sat, May 15, 2010
I have an instance of this site deployed on both Slicehost and Heroku and am running tests on both. I'll post formal results soon; in the mean time, desipite it's restrictions, I'm leaning towards Heroku.
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