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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...
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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...
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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. The old way of doing this, and the...
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How To Scan For Viruses in Your Email When Using Apple Mail
There’s more than way to go about it, but I prefer using the open source ClamAV and a script that runs to scan each email as it comes in. Setup ClamAV Install ClamAV. I used MacPorts to install it:...
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How To Get Your IP and ONLY Your IP in Windows
Sometimes you need to know your Windows machine’s IP. For example, if you would like to update your dynamic DNS entry from a script file. Here’s a hack that gets the job done. This is from someone...
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How To Post Your Dynamic Internal IP To DynDNS From Your Windows Machine
I looked around for an easier way to post an internal IP to DynDNS, but I didn’t find one. Scripting to the rescue. If you have a paid account at DynDNS (may work for free ones too, I’m not sure), you...
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Pandora vs Last.fm
They’re both good, but Last.fm wins. How can this be? Last.fm’s amazing powers are put on display after the break. Last.fm can perform these amazing tricks: Tag (and Multitag) radio. If you want to...
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How to Automatically Connect and Stay Connected to a Network Drive on OS X
I keep my music and my photos on a server at home. Whenever I’m home I want all of my shares to be accessible automatically so I can launch iTunes and iPhoto without needing to do anything first (i.e....
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How to Restart PostgreSQL While Developing a Rails App
While developing a Rails apps using PostgreSQL (unlike MySQL) I often run out of db connections and see errors like “FATAL: remaining connection slots are reserved for non-replication superuser...
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How to Fix Dropouts and Cutting Out When Using AirTunes on your Airport Express
For months I struggled with frequent audio dropouts while connecting to stereo through my Airport Express from my Mac laptop. My connection was strong (5/5 bars on wifi) but I still had dropouts. I...
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