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hello, i'm yan

I am a photographer, entrepreneur, software engineer, guitarist, climber, and telemark skier

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Posts from July 2008

Rails Tips: Make fixtures play nice with acts_as_paranoid

I was trying to write a test involving deleted items on a project using acts_as_paranoid (which marks objects with a deleted_at date instead of actually deleting them). When I created a fixture with a deleted_at date set, it turns out that making the fixture retrieval call items(:deleted_item) would fail because internally the fixtures use a [...]


Followers lost in twitter failstorm

Many people report lost followers on twitter today. Numbers range from a few to hundreds. I seem to have lost about a hundred followers and a hundred from my following list. Hopefully they were all spam bots :-)


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17 July 2008 @ 5pm

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Twitter flashes a bit of redesign skin

Either by accident, or by well crafted maneuver, Twitter changed their look today for only a couple minutes. Most of the tweets I saw were positive or neutral, although there were several naysayers. Personally I think the new design is cleaner, moving navigation to the right, away from the content area so that it’s easier [...]


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