Archive for February, 2008

RSS Fatigue

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

I think I have too many RSS feeds that I follow… :(

I have been cutting down the number of feeds, but it’s been difficult to do. Obviously, I still want to keep a few feeds about general news, business news, IT news, learning (self improvement, information architecture, web design), and (last but not least) tech news!
I think I have about 40 feeds that I follow everyday… I’m looking forward to cut them down even further. Again, it’s difficult to do so because I really enjoy following the news.

The good news is that I only skim through most of the feeds. :)

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Rails Symbols

Sunday, February 24th, 2008

It is very important to understand symbols and how it behaves in Rails. Symbols concept was very confusing for me before. Again, Google to the rescue! :)

I found a good article from Gluttonous that explains how symbols work.

As I progress through Agile Web Development with Rails, I notice that symbols and strings can be used interchangeably in most cases. For example:

redirect_to(:action => “index”)
redirect_to(:action => :index)

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