December 2010
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ActiveRecord :: Base # serialize →
Do you have an attribute of your Rails model that needs to be saved to the database as an object (Array, Hash, any other class) ? => use serialize
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Android UI Development: Tips, Tricks and...
Recently @romanguy and @chethaase gave several presentations at Devoxx and the San Francisco Android user group.
In particular they did a presentation entitled “Android UI Development: Tips, Tricks and Techniques”, which shows what tools they use to track down performance issues.
The original PDF for this presentation is here , and I uploaded to slideshare there.
Slideshare version...
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Balance of first meetup of Venezuela Ruby Users...
Finally one month ago we started the Venezuela Ruby Users Group, a project that was in my mind for almost 3 years (but never did - always “no have time” was the excuse)
The group lives here:
Website: http://ruby.org.ve
Google Group: RubyVE
Twitter: @RubyVE
IRC: irc://irc.freenode.net/#rubyve
Our first meetup was on Nov 25, 2010 at the Softrain HQ (thanks so much for the support)...
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Consuming the Twitter data: figthing against the...
Aníbal and I were invited to talk in the event “Internet Caracas 2010 - Lets talk about social networks and web business” (Dec 03, 2010)
Our presentation was about our experience doing real time analytics of urls shared in twitter
The way we use NoSQL storages (like MongoDB and Redis) to face this problem. And the several startup iterations, starting with FeedTrace, until...
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“Always code as if the person who will maintain your code is a violent psychopath...”
– Alan Braggins
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The 30 steps to achieve mastery
Start
Keep going.
You think you’re starting to get the hang of it.
You see someone else’s work and feel undeniable misery.
Keep going.
Keep going.
You feel like maybe, possibly, you kinda got it now.
You don’t.
Keep going.
You ask for someone else’s opinion—their response is standoffish, though polite.
Depression.
Keep going.
Keep going.
You ask someone...
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A list of 3rd-party libraries for Android
AppMonk (utility)
DroidKit (web framework)
GreenDroid (UI)
Droid-Fu (utility)
android-screenshot-library (utility)
android-alarm-database (utility)
OpenIntents (utility)
ACRA (utility)
Ganymed SSH2 (network)
ZXing (barcode/QR-Code)
jjil (image processing)
AndroidLibs (contacts/social)
Twitter4J (social)
android-wheel (UI)
CommonsWare Android Components - CWAC (utility / UI)
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“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different...”
– Einstein