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How To Use Facebook Open Streams With Facebooker

I would like my Facebook Connect app to publish stories to my users’ Facebook news stream. I went looking for how do this with Facebooker and figured out an answer.

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How To Include a Gem’s Rake Tasks in Your Rails App

Rake tasks contained in a gem are not automatically available to a rails app that requires the gem. Whether that’s the right way to do things is under debate, but in the mean time there are a couple workarounds.

Sep 09

How To Permit A Blank Email Field With AuthLogic

I too ran into some trouble before discovering that my beloved AuthLogic is validating my email field. The validation is a good thing overall, but I want to support blank email addresses as well as properly formatted ones.

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How To Predict The Future Using Excel

I’m going to run out of hard drive space at some point. I’ve got 1.5TB drives in my Drobo right now, I wonder when the 3TB drives will come out so I can just upgrade them in place for double the capacity…

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How To Monitor Amazon For Price Drops

Want to buy a blu-ray movie, but not interested in paying full price? Search on CamelCamelCamel for what you want then subscribe to the associated “3rd party used price” RSS feed (look for the RSS icon: ). You’ll get an RSS update each time the price changes.