The Ruby Reflector

…given a full programmatic CRUD interface, to Create, Retrieve, Update and Delete instances of the given type.

The node entity type is to most sites the central type — it's what editors normally create on a daily basis. Nodes are further broken down in bundles — a type of data template for your content. These can be anything from articles, FAQ pages, interviews, podcast episodes, etc. This all depends on your unique site.

Entities in and of themselves are just bare, boring objects. …

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Support for Put, Get, Delete operations

Forward and backward iteration over data

Built-in Snappy compression

Designed to be the engine for IndexDB in WebKit (aka, embedded in your browser), it is easy to embed , fast , and best of all, takes care of all the SSTable and MemTable flushing, merging and other gnarly details.

Working with LevelDB: Ruby

LevelDB is a library, not a standalone server or service - although you could easily implement …

• Topics: SSTable, Memtable, LevelDB, SSTables, BigTable
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s3nukem - Delete large Amazon S3 buckets - Deleting buckets with millions of items is one of the stupidly hard operations in Amazon S3. This makes it a bit easier. (Hat tip to Jérémy Lecour )

Pakyow 0.7 - Oh look, another ruby web framework came out when I wasn't looking.

jquip - Project to break up the monolithic jQuery code to a small core and plugins.

Literate programming with Github and Markdown - I've been interested …

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In my Android app, I have a ListView, and I want to persist a button at the bottom of the page (like how the Gmail app has Archive, Delete, and Older on the View Email screen). Unfortunately, this is not trivial, and many others have tried , but despite those suggestions, I never found something that quite worked correctly. The third article above got me actually pretty close, so without further ado, here's a working solution (images and javascript include after the jump):

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…, the Delete/Edit message links are close to each other. But if you do click on Delete accidentally, you have to confirm it:

We go the dialog route when the action does irreversible damage to something you might care about a lot. Loss of a calendar event is unfortunate but easily reparable. But loss of a message with comments can cause significant pain.

( Btw, one thing about the examples used in the Fitts' Law post: There's actually a setting in Gmail that lets …

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…Simple Storage Service), where you can actually CRUD ( Create Read Update and Delete) unlimited number of files from 1 byte to 5 gigabytes of data each. Amazon S3 has it's own terminology of buckets and objects for something like folders and files in the file system terminology. And, it gives you appropriate urls from where you can access the uploaded files.

Then screencast goes into details on how to use AWS ::S3 gem written by Marcel Molina which abstracts all API …

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…system yet. Enter the BIOS (this is typically done by pressing F12 or Delete during bootup) and check the BIOS screens to make sure it's detecting your hard drives, memory, and any optical drives successfully. Browse around and do some basic reality checks. Then do not pass GO, do not collect $ 200, go straight to your motherboard manufacturer's website and download the latest BIOS . On another computer, obviously. Most modern motherboards allow updating the BIOS from a …

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Current Things That Are Working:

Controller/Server

1. Can read full table

2. Can read using JqGrid Pager

3. Added Sort support, so server will honor the grid sort request

4. Added Delete,Add and Update support.

5. Auto Generates JqGrid Javascript from ActiveRecord

6 Added Total Records to XML so Pager works properly.

ActiveJquery Library/Client

1. Added support for string, integer, date.

2. Generates JSON Based Reader compatible with Rails JSON Format

• Topics: Domain, Comptroller, Reader, Update, JavaScript

[ CHEF-227 ] - Delete operation of Search Index is not working

[ CHEF-228 ] - chef-server under passenger: Controller class not found for controller `registrations'

[ CHEF-230 ] - remote_file with a url should include a type of hash option to verify the downloaded file is what we expected

[ CHEF-237 ] - Apt provider won't install msttcorefonts

[ CHEF-238 ] - Commands with over 4k of output …

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