All blog posts from June 2008

New bike!

June 18, 2008

After riding a supermarket giveaway bike (which proudly displayed the MJB Coffee logo on it's frame) for a couple years I finally gave in and bought a new bike. Perhaps more accurately, the bike gave out and I replaced it!



I love it - but it won't stay clean for very long, so I took some pictures …

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The Canadian DMCA

June 14, 2008

The Conservatives have finally introduced the DMCA, resulting in somewhat predictable outrage from Canadians. For those not familiar with what this means if it's passed, I urge you to read some of Micheal Geist's recent posts - he breaks down the fine print. He's also posted a nice list of 30 things…

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Serialized hashes with partial_updates in Rails 2.1

June 2, 2008

In Rails 2.1, they added partial updates - which is a great idea and a long time coming. This makes ActiveRecord only updates the parts of a model that has actually changed, and also gives you the ability to see if a field (or a record) has changed since retrieving it from the database. (via mode…

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