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Absolutely. At theconversation.edu.au we run a content site—we publish the news, which is the same for everyone. This means we can cache the front page and all the articles as stat…

Great post. I didn't understand the role of controllers and directives but this explained them well with a thoughtful walk through. The idea of wrapping distinct chunks of logic in…

You can configure `git push` to push just the current branch to its configured remote, by setting 'push.default' to 'upstream'. `git config --global push.default upstream` The rele…

Hope was definitely a bad choice of word. By that I meant, the sort of tight query you'd hope an ORM would deliver. Anyhow, it's a matter of taste, but what may appear at first as …

Good point, #merge isn't itself an arel method. I say arel because it's the core sitting behind the #merge / #where / #joins frontend -- but AR::Relation deserves credit too :)

The frame showing Facebook vs Greek debt is particularly good. We ran a piece in a similar vein last week: http://theconversation.edu.au/how-david-beckham-caused-globa...

Good explanation, thanks. The part I don't understand is the POST hitting the victim app. I don't know django but rails apps require an authenticity token to be included in all non…

Worked a treat, cheers.

Agree to disagree :) The only Flash component is the embedded screencast, which is hosted at Vimeo and downloadable as an mp4: http://vimeo.com/6782671

I should have copied and pasted instead of typing it out :) Thanks for the correction, fixed.

Thanks for submitting this, speek :) For those that are interested in trying out babushka, here's a 30 second crash course. To install: bash -c "`curl -L babushka.me/up`" # If you'…

It's a really good question, and one I probably should answer more directly on the website and in the README. As I wrote above, I have a lot of time for these other tools—in fact t…

Hey, that's cool—pretty tempting to start using that reference retrospectively. Maybe a few canvas-animated butterflies on the website? :) Cheers!

Hi, great questions. Chef and puppet have a lot to offer. In particular, there are things that chef and puppet can do that babushka can't, like orchestrating ecosystems of multiple…

Yep, I was aware of that :) I chose babushka because here in Australia at least, the nested Russian dolls are known as babushka dolls. (Also, Matryoshka is kind of already taken by…

Speculation, but I think it makes sense: http://blog.acooper.org/2009/12/speculation-the-real-villain... tl;dr: Labor are using the filter as a political means to an end, to court …

(the irritating html-escaping bug will be fixed as soon as voting's over - couldn't squeeze the fix inside 10 lines!)

I was in a team of four, we built Twippet: http://railsrumble.twippet.com It's code sharing over the twitter network. Throw up some code snippets, enter your twitter creds (pass no…

If you're going to serve Javascript over SSL, you need a full SSL setup including a valid certificate, etc. If you have that, you may as well just serve the login form itself over …