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Mastering recursive programming For new computer science students, the concept of recursive programming is often difficult. Recursive thinking is difficult because it almost seems like circular reasoning. It's also not an intuitive process; when we give instructions to other people, we rarely direct them recursively.
Google App Engine, JRuby, Sinatra and some fun! Yesterday I was experimenting with Google App Engine for a little project that I was working on. I literally started from ground zero and could do my thing after a long night. I’m blogging about it to share you the idea and save you some time googling solutions. So, here is the thing in brief: I wanted to some feed on and with new entries. Looks like a 10 minutes with Nokogiri and cron jobs. Actually that’s true except of the fact that I need to pay for a VPS so that I can run the script with various gems (since I needed to do some work on the feeds before sending, but that’s for another topic) and for using cron jobs.
Get Started With HTML5: Tips, Showcases, And Coding Samples HTML5 is gaining more popularity and starting to evolutionise the entire web interface. Even some web developers quoted that HTM5 elements and visual effects are comparable to Flash. The new scripting style is easy to understand and capabilities to enhance the web interface is limitless. So how interesting is this HTML5 anyway? Think CrazyFish After many weeks or months… i’ll reload! resurrect this blog. I use on many projects the ‘ devise ’ for authentication but also in one projects i use the ‘ resque ’ and ‘ resque_mailer ’ for queues then i found two errors: Devise expected to receive a ‘record’ but the ‘resque’ sends a ‘Hash’
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