I did some Ruby Judo and wrote up a little script that matches common English words against the list of TLDs.
Fun with Unicode
Posted by Andrew
¿ʇı̣ É™snqÉ Ê‡,uÉÉ” noÊŽ ɟı̣ É™poɔı̣un sı̣ pooÉ“ ʇÉÉ¥Ê
(If you can’t read that you don’t have proper unicode support. It says, upside down, “What good is unicode if you can’t abuse it?”
Mongrel vs Evented Mongrel
Posted by Andrew
Mongrel is just as fast as Evented Mongrel with a concurrency of 1, but under a concurrency of 10 the difference becomes clear. Evented Mongrel is able to maintain the same 270 req/sec whereas Generic Mongrel falls down to about 120 req/sec.
Google Notifier: Using SSL
Posted by Andrew
“Pull down the Notifier menu (either Calendar or Gmail), hold down Command and Option, and click Preferences on the menu. You’ll see a hidden settings editor. Enter ‘SecureAlways’ in the Key field (upper and lower case must be entered as shown) and 1 in the Value field, then click Set. Quit Notifier and start it up again. From now on all connections with both Gmail & Gcal will be https. Enjah”
An excellent comment from the O’Reilly Mac DevCenter Blog.
del.icio.us and Firefox
Posted by Andrew
The guys over at del.icio.us have released a really cool Firefox plug-in that integrates the social bookmarking service into your browser. I’ve played with del.icio.us in the past, but the experience was never streamlined or fast; this plug-in is both. There is more explanation on the del.icio.us blog.
