If you can read this, it means that the first stage of moving dx13 is complete: moving the current content to the new host and changing where the domain name points to. Great!
I finally have some control of my fate again. The dx13.co.uk domain has passed into the hands of my friend Jason, an able custodian if ever there was one. The previous person looking after the domain for me went missing in action sometime ago, which was rather worrying. Fortunately the domain was renewed last June when it came up for expiry by some mysterious entity. Needless to say, however, having a trusted friend looking after the name for me, able to point it wherever my whim desires, is most relieving.
A few months ago, there was a kerfuffle in the programming blog world about a little problem called FizzBuzz. Every now and then someone posts about their experiences interviewing candidates for coding positions. One such post was an example of a way to weed out the terrible developers from the merely not-that-good (i.e., the rest of us). It was titled Using FizzBuzz to Find Developers who Grok Coding and presented the following problem:
This is the short post I wish I’d found this afternoon to remind me: try the simplest thing which could possibly work. I was trying to work out whether acts_as_sphinx and will_paginate would work together.
It turns out they do, and it is the most obvious thing in the world.
Exhibit A: Using will_paginate on its own:
Exhibit B: Using acts_as_sphinx on its own:
Exhibit C: Stop looking at internet and just damn well try something:
Easily the best new feature in Firefox 3, in beta, is the new location bar, dubbed the “Awesome Bar” in some quarters.
Most web browser location bars will search through the addresses of the websites you’ve visited recently when you type in them, including the ones in Firefox 2, Safari and Internet Explorer. Firefox 3 differs in that it searches the page titles too. In this age of non-descriptive URLs, searching only the web address is certainly sub-optimal. A page’s title is far more likely to contain useful information if you are searching for something but don’t know where you saw it.