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• Restful Authentication with all the bells and whistles (updated 2/21)
  This tutorial was built and tested using rails version 2.0.2. Features covered include activation, changing passwords, forgotten passwords, enable/disable users, roles and OpenID.
  (tags: Rails Restful Authentication)

• The Sopranos: Definitive Explanation of “The END”
  “If you look at the final episode really carefully, it’s all there.”* These are David Chase’s words regarding the finale of the Sopranos. He is right, it is “all there”. This is the definitive explanation of why Tony died in Holsten’s in the
  (tags: Sopranos Analysis)

• Study of Bush’s psyche touches a nerve
  A study funded by the US government has concluded that conservatism can be explained psychologically as a set of neuroses rooted in “fear and aggression, dogmatism and the intolerance of ambiguity”.
  (tags: Conservatism Study)

• Complexity metrics
  The following metrics measure the complexity of executable code within procedures. This includes both the internal complexity of a single procedure and the complexity of the data flow in and out of a procedure.
  (tags: CCN Complexity Metrics)

• .c( whytheluckystiff )o. — Wearing Ruby Slippers To Work
  This is Part One of an ongoing series to get us all comfortable using Ruby in the harshest of conditions.
  (tags: Ruby)
• Micah’s General Guidelines on Ruby require
  What follows are the guidelines I use to manage Ruby require statements.
  (tags: Ruby Require)
• RSpec-1.1.4
  RSpec is a Behaviour Driven Development framework for Ruby. It provides two frameworks for writing and executing examples of how your Ruby application should behave:
  (tags: Ruby RSpec BDD Testing)

• Calibrating your computer’s battery for best performance
  You can calibrate your iBook, PowerBook, MacBook or MacBook Pro computer’s lithium ion battery for best performance.
  (tags: Apple Mac Battery)

• Notes on Formal Language Theory and Parsing
  Department of Computer Science
  NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, MAYNOOTH
  (tags: Language Parsing Compiler Theory Grammar Programming)
• Creating a Recursive-Descent Parser
  A Grammar, G, is a structure where N is a set of non-terminals, T is a set of terminals, P is a set of productions, and S is a special non-terminal called the start symbol of the grammar. Grammars are used to formally specify the syntax of a lan
  (tags: Parser Grammar)

• Using Permalinks
  Permalinks are the permanent URLs to your individual weblog posts, as well as categories and other lists of weblog postings.
  (tags: WordPress Permalinks)

• 100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes
  High-quality WordPress themes always come in handy. Whether you are looking for some design inspiration or professional coding solutions
  (tags: WordPress Themes)

• InfoQ: JavaOne: Cliff Click on a Scalable Non-Blocking Coding Style
  Only a portion of a program’s processing can be run entirely in parallel, and only that portion can scale directly on machines having more and more processor cores. The rest of the program’s work is sequential.
  (tags: Concurrent Data Structure Java)

• ActiveRDF
  ActiveRDF is a library for accessing RDF data from Ruby programs. It can be used as data layer in Ruby-on-Rails, similar to ActiveRecord (which provides an O/R mapping to relational databases).
  (tags: Ruby Rails RDF Semantic Web)

• rubinius
  The Rubinius project uses the Git SCM. Committers need to use git to commit their code directly to the main repository.
  (tags: Ruby Rubinius Git)

• ImageEditor v2 Coding Has Begun
  Today I started coding the interface for ImageEditor v2.
  (tags: Ruby Rails Ajax Image Editor)
• Rails Image Editor
  Rails Ajax Image Editor is an ajaxified application for image manipulation using Rails technologies.
  (tags: Rails Image Editor)
• HowtoCreateThumbnailImages in Ruby on Rails
  Here is simple script which is ideal to use in your Ruby on Rails application to quickly generate thumbnails of any proportions.
  (tags: Ruby Rails Thumbnails)
• Cubeecraft.com - Print, cut and fold your own papercraft toys!
  Each toy features interlocking tabs for construction - eliminating the need for tape, glue or other messy adhesives.
  (tags: Papercraft)

• Finding Obama guilty of insufficient devotion to Israel - Glenn Greenwald
  Has there ever been another country to which American politicians were required to pledge their uncritical, absolute loyalty the way they are, now, with Israel?
  (tags: US Neoconservative Israel Zionism)
• Jimmy Carter: A human rights crime
  The world is witnessing a terrible human rights crime in Gaza, where a million and a half human beings are being imprisoned with almost no access to the outside world. An entire population is being brutally punished.
  (tags: Israel Zionism Occupation Jimmy Carter)