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View ArticleLRF to HTML: The Rough Guide
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I’m partway through the MSDN C# Threading Tutorial and, as a Java developer, have had fun breaking/refactoring their tutorial code. I haven’t yet gotten to the Mutex section, mostly because I spent...
View ArticleHead First Design Patterns: C# Remote Gumball Machine Proxy
While there is a link to C# code at the official site for Head First Design Patterns, the example for a remote proxy is… complicated, and there is actually no remote Gumball machine implementation. So...
View ArticleWordPress Theme Tweaks: Nuntius
Nuntius is a streamlined, modern, and strangely imperfect theme. If you’ve ever used it, you’ll notice that some of the widgets have weird issues with borders and margins; examples include the Twitter...
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I’m so far loving the Liquorice theme: it’s warm, it has great typography, and it displays full posts in the archives. But I simply wasn’t satisfied with the width. Here’s the custom CSS recipe I used...
View ArticleRails 3.2 on a Shared Dreamhost Server
Introduction Trying to get Rails 3.2 along with ruby 1.9.3 running on a shared Dreamhost server? Need to get it running against your Dreamhost MySQL database? Worry no more. I have gone through the...
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