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trevorturk

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About trevorturk

https://twitter.com/trevorturk

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    Comment #41810167

    I think the ActionCable PR is here: https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/50979 -- it seems like it's going well, but taking some time. I think that should be interesting for some us…

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    Comment #12013008

    Super appreciated! Great work Sean. This kind of deep structural improvement will pay dividends for years.

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    Comment #7099341

    I absolutely love PaperKarma. Keep up the good work!

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    Comment #4271490

    I want a refund.

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    Comment #4269293

    I'll stick to 9rules.com, thank you very much

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    Comment #3574651

    I just moved from a self-hosted WP blog to a free one at WordPress.com. Much happier now :)

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    Comment #2962365

    http://hckrnews.com/ is an awesome way to keep up with hacker news without missing things if you take a few days off.

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    Comment #2195265

    I've been working from the British Library in London lately, and it's been great. If you're working at a library, though, please do consider making a donation. Sure it's free, but.…

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    Comment #2139984

    Ugh. The length of that article (and the reliance on Disqus for comments) is why I'm still using WordPress. I'd use a hosted service, but I haven't found one that can properly impo…

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    Comment #2091359

    FWIW - I made "the simplest possible Wordpress theme" in an effort to understand what the bare minimum Wordpress theme requires (to get into their theme directory). You can see it …

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    Comment #1919496

    I've helped a number of people "get started with Rails" over the years, and I've had to help every single one of them get their environment set up properly. I think there's tremend…

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    Comment #1918552

    This is a wonderful idea. Every time I try to get someone started with Rails, I sent them to the Rails Guides and warn them that "getting Rails up and running in the hardest part."…

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    Comment #1909678

    Heroku just released some major updates to their Postgres offering as well. See the blog for info: http://blog.heroku.com/

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    Comment #1702911

    Varnish is most definitely a huge win. It can be somewhat of a pain to install if you're not using Chef or something, though. Here's some helpful info I compiled that might come in…

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    Comment #1649622

    Awesome. I don't see any way for me to get a tweet/email/something to let me know when new stuff is added. That kind of thing would be nice, because I'm sure I won't remember to go…

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    Comment #1614577

    ..waits patiently for Heroku to support it ;)

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    Comment #1574628

    I use a similar strategy: http://trevorturk.com/2009/06/25/config-vars-and-heroku/ ...this kind of thing doesn't have to be Heroku-specific, though.

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    Comment #1539254

    I've been happily using Sprinkle for a while now: http://github.com/crafterm/sprinkle Might be worth checking out if your needs aren't too complex and you want to get up and runnin…

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    Comment #1518978

    ...uhh... was that Justin Timberlake...? This is going to be _hilarious_