Need Help on HTTP Status Code
Imagine the following situation: You have an HTML sign up form for a userOne of the fields is for the user's emailThe user fills in the data and POSTs the response to the...
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Typo Feed Content Types
Being a good web netizen, every few days I check that my blog and Yue's blog validate using the W3C feed validator (well someone has to serve valid content - of course having...
I’ve Been Found
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REST Controller for RAILS
Time to continue the REST and Rails theme Rails' most egregious violation of REST is that it exposes object methodsin URIs: http://myrailsappcom/users/show ...
Content Negotiation And Rails
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JavaScript and Semicolons
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My Thoughts on the Ruby Enterprise Debate
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REST Leading To Rails
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