tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-40527962009-06-01T00:58:57.569-07:00All that's been said and done.Anilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12172734883170674261noreply@blogger.comBlogger469125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4052796.post-38396554435767376442009-02-21T18:37:00.004-07:002009-02-22T10:46:33.671-07:00

If you are developing a Rails application that needs to send email, you probably want to have support for sending emails without having sendmail or an smtp server installed on every development machine.Everyone who has a Gmail account has access to their SMTP server for free, but there are some caveats:1. Google only allows secure SMTP connections and Rails does not have support for this

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From my friend Heather's recent trip to Chile.Edit: Welcome Reddit Users!

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Choosing your profile picture (from PhD Comics - extras included)Original comic here.

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If you are losing connection to mysql every so often on OSX (I'm using 10.5 Leopard), it's probably because you do not have the native C ruby-mysql bindings. If your error looks like this:Mysql::Error: Lost connection to MySQL server during query: then try the following. Verify that the bindings are really not present. In a terminal window, open up the interactive ruby shell and type the

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Did you know that you can get coffee grounds for free from any Starbucks? Just walk in and ask for 'Grounds for your Garden' and you will receive a huge bag of used coffee grounds that you can use to dress up your soil. If you live in Arizona, you probably need some acidity in your soil anyway, so try it out!

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From Banksy's guide to cutting stencils:Any fame is a bi-product of making something that means something. You don't go to a restaurant and order a meal because you want to have a shit.

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I don't think there's any way to summarize this post, so just go ahead and read it. Bloody brilliant!

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I've always been a fan of Google's language tools, especially when I'm trying to find out how to say a phrase in Spanish. Now Google has built a bot out of the tool so that you can actually chat to it using Google Talk (or any jabber client) and receive the translation in real time.Here's how to use it: Simply add en2es@bot.talk.google.com to your friend list and chat with the bot to

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If you have ever tried to buy Indian music from one of the popular (and legitimate) online music stores in the US, then good luck finding the albums you want. Even though Indian music has enough genres and languages to have more categories than western music, it is always relegated to the catch-all 'World Music' category.It's understandable the stores don't normally categorize international music

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I got this in a forwarded email and I could not find out who created it (hence it's not attributed) but it's tough being born to a geek family.Link (pdf)

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My experience with setting up production servers was zero before I tried to do this, and I had to go to a lot of sources to find a solution that worked for me. I finally got everyting working smoothly and here's the workflow that I used.My setup:-OS: Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) Server Edition-Servers: Apache and Mongrel clusters-Database: MySQL-Deployment: Manual (It should be fairly easy to get

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One of the things I look forward to every day is reading the Wall Street Journal. To my mind, it brings back the days when the first thing I did every day was to read the newspaper. (The Times of India, before they morphed their print edition into a tabloid and also created one of the worst ad-infested websites I've seen) The downside is that if I find a great story, I can't send it to my friends

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I'll admit that when it comes to gadgets, I have yet to meet one I didn't like. I'm the early adopter you hear about - the guy who buys v1.0 of every gadget and beta tests them so that the unwashed masses can get a better v2.0 of the same gadget. In the past year I have tried out smartphones of almost every kind - Windows Mobile, Palm, Blackberry and yes, the iPhone too. Here's what I think is

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Sometimes you receive customer service that is so unexpected and great that you have to tell everyone about it. It feels even better when it happens just after you have been on the butt end of terrible customer service. Back in march, I bought two large rolls of seamless background paper (107"x12Y) for a home studio, and unfortunately they remained in my garage for months since I and my friends

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It's funny how many applications are fall under US export laws. Once upon a time you couldn't get Internet Explorer with 128bit security. Never mind that it's so easy to use a proxy and download anything that cannot be legally downloaded from outside the US. Today I tried to download a JVM for my Motorola Q phone, and what should have been a simple download turned out to be a lengthy process

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We found this sign near the elevator at the Sheraton Hotel in Old San Juan (Puerto Rico).(Picture courtesy DS)

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The mentally challenged religious-political groups in India have decided that Valentine's Day is too western to be fit for celebration in India. Of course love is such a dirty thing that it should never be expressed in public. Every civilized person knows that it is as offensive as, say digging your nose or scratching your butt in public. Come to think of it, V-day is a western thing, but love

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Those who believe in religion and an afterlife often deny themselves the good stuff they can enjoy in this life so that they can get better things in the next. Now for argument's sake, let's imagine that there's a God who did in fact, create all that we see. Now also imagine yourself at home cooking a great meal with the best ingredients for your friends. Wouldn't you be happiest if they finished

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It's the animals that are going to take over. The Fantastic Five Komodo Dragon Jesuses have arrived! Can't wait for the Manga comics.(via Das)

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Racism and fundamentalism - what do they have in common? It's the notion that one's race/religion is superior to all others and therefore all the outsiders are somehow lesser individuals. When Senator Barack Obama is 'accused' of attending a madrassa as a child, why does it create so much news? As much as I detest the concept of madrassas in principle (or any other religious school where you only

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If you thought I was talking about a crotch-guard, then you just have a dirty mind! Of all the things that people could invent and sell, this is something I would never have imagined possible... Actual plastic cases just to take care of bananas! And if you look at the website, some of the colors are actually sold out! Well, maybe folks just buy them for the sake of telling their friends that they

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Even a lifetime of living in India (well 21 years at least) cannot prepare one for the shock of encountering the traffic on any Indian road. Or maybe the nice orderly American traffic makes a person too soft. In any case, the shock of seeing vehicles - slow, fast, big, small and ugly share the same narrow streets, while seemingly moving in bizarre directions while avoiding each other by the

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After nearly three years I'm off to India for a month long vacation! This time around I have a great camera, so I hope to do something I've dreamed of for a long time - take pictures of the Kerala countryside during the rains! Keep an eye out for the photoblog for that's where I'll be, if you don't find me here!

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The Chief Happiness Officer makes a compelling case for making salaries open information within companies. In a public company where the upper management is answerable to the shareholders, their salaries are known to all, which makes perfect sense because they have to justify their salaries through their performance. However, as a regular employee you never know what your peers (who may be doing

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But if just viewing this picture can be so heartbreaking, how bad would it have been for the photographer who saw it all..[More on Kevin Carter's tragic story: Wikipedia | Time Magazine Story]

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