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I think it is good in scenarios where the problems are sufficiently difficult.

This is simply a skill worth learning if you are not good at it already

Why should I use lotus over Sinatra, Padrino, Grape, Rails, etc?

Thanks for the tip. I didn't know about that utility

maybe smex? http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Smex

What does hexagonal mean?

In many cases it is as easy as relying on a gem instead of doing it yourself. Where the gem contains a c extension. Say resizing images with chunkypng vs mini_magick

It seems to me that being "way faster than rsync" is not worth $49. Also there is no comparison / explanation on the site of how it is faster than rsync.

the problem is also dependencies specified as:

gem 'activesupport', '>= 2.3.5' # too loosely

my experience is that the person on the phone usually doesn't care if you have all the relevant info

cool thanks

I don't see how this could be used for collaborative code editing. Is there an example of this?

some bite sized emacs tips http://rawsyntax.com/blog/categories/learn-emacs/

and a great introduction to setting up emacs http://batsov.com/articles/2012/10/14/emacs-on-osx/

posts on various emacs topics http://www.masteringemacs.org/

can you give an example of how this is really a problem? I have an iPad that can display PDFs. When I scan documents PDFs get created.

chrome

its not difficult to maintain. Emacs in particular has M-x align-regexp = (which does the alignment for you)

when you migrate, you may want to setup jekyll to handle your redirects (from your old site's url structure)

I wrote about a jekyll plugin that allows just that (used it when I migrated away from tumblr)

http://rawsyntax.com/blog/blogging-on-jekyll-url-redirects/

it degrades to select / option boxes. The demo page sucks, but I have used this and it works fine without javascript.

yes this is exactly right, its POST for compatibility reasons, rails puts a special parameter in the form submit to map to PUT (for resourceful routes)

html5boilerplate used to be my goto html / css structure for starting a project. I recently build one using bootstrap 2.0... and it was significantly less hassle, but still looks good and works on desktop and mobile

shouldn't that be #!/usr/bin/env ruby

My problem with sinatra is that I rarely work on a small well defined project. Usually these projects grow beyond their original scope and sinatra is not equipped to deal with that. I don't see the problem with creating a nearly empty rails app.

http://rawsyntax.com/blog/the-problem-with-micro-frameworks/

This looks pretty cool. Tracking all of that stuff is a little messy, I definitely could've used this back when I was on the market.

However, I see this as a cool open source application rather than a for pay service. The problem is that if your service works really well... You're going to eliminate your customers as they get gainfully employed thanks to your site.

AT&T sucks too.. I've had 2 billing disputes with them. Both times I called and asked to speak to the people who say I owe money, so I could understand what was going on (as it was for accounts I never setup). They told me I couldn't speak to those people. I had to file complaints with the BBB to get the billing dispute resolved (magically it got zeroed out and corrected at that point).

I have to say when I had comcast, I didn't have any billing issues.

He's leaving because he has the option to use a different comparable provider.

Some of us are not so lucky. I have only two options available in my apartment. 3mbit/s cable service which disconnects frequently and is wholly unreliable, or ATT DSL 6mbit/1mbit which while its reliable costs $40/month. 4G wireless solutions do not penetrate my building enough to be useable.

What we really need are more comparable options for internet access.

I don't get it. My wife is on her feet 12 hours a day, so her feet just hurt.

From what I've read, the kindle fire has been underwhelming. I think this is largely due to our expectations for tablet computing, given that we now have android tablets and ipads. Would it be fair to say the kindle fire is a better kindle, but not a tablet computer?

Good idea. I'll be digging into this topic, and making a post on it soon

In the past, I've used 2 buffers to solve this problem.

I'll fill one buffer with the text I'm editing, and the other buffer with any 'arguments'. Then I'll just write the macro to switch between buffers and grab arguments as necessary.

disclaimer: I'm the author

Any suggestions for other emacs topics I should blog about?

Thanks for your interest.