Alright, can anyone explain this to me …

I’ve seen these for sale at the Hawkins Bazaar in Winchester. They refuse to open the box, and the staff all claim they don’t know how it works. In any case, i found out that even if you do open the box there are no instructions; just a [...]

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Because scaffolding isn’t the answer to everything, i made a personal generator that churns out some CRUD actions with the RSpec tests that are just the way i like them.
Posted here mainly for reference by future-me but anyone else is welcome to use them too.
Generate Rails controller code
I find it’s particularly amusing if you enter [...]

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Created by OnePlusYou
Okay, i cheated because i did it earlier on today and only got about 30! There are about 90 in total. It’s quite surprising the ones you forget, when under pressure, where in every day usage you’d just use it when you needed it. And then there are some that you’ve never learnt [...]

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Writing a post simply to celebrate the 29th February! I have a friend who is about a week overdue to have a baby. I think it would be great if the baby comes today … but my friend does not agree!
A colleague just said it’s unfair that we have to work on the 29th February. [...]

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Today is a very cold day and i am not feeling very well. I am sitting here clutching a cup of hot Rooibos, trying to warm up. I guess i could do some chores - that would warm me up - haha! I’m not really in the mood, but i ought to do some. Last [...]

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I sometimes enjoy checking the spam for comments that Akismet has cast aside for me. There is a kind of comment that takes such a predictable form it is almost like a Haiku. It goes:
{compliment}.
{assurance of trust}..
{greeting}
The two dots on the second line are very important. There are always two dots on the second line. [...]

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BUT I WROTE THAT!!!
What’s the point of a blog that copies random extracts of someone else’s blog and sends pingback/trackback to them?! There is no additional commentary; nothing to explain why they copied it … they claim to be a joke of the day but the extract they chose wasn’t even a joke! How bizarre.
Pingback [...]

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Don’t you hate it when you get to the end of an evening and you think, “What did i actually do tonight?”. And then you think of everything. And then you go, “Yes, but what else?!”. And then the only feasible next action is to waste a bit more time blogging about it!!
I don’t seem [...]

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My beloved is away in Germany until Friday and we actually won’t see each other again until we meet in Kent on Saturday. I promise i will eat some vegetables tomorrow, but to be honest, today i had a good meal at lunchtime (it was our department Christmas lunch) and so i’m afraid i copped [...]

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