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Users and Passwords

Last week I lost several productive hours resetting my ‘insecure’ password on several websites due to a security breach at a website I haven’t used in more than a decade, if you’ve ever used that site, you’d be well advised to change your password pretty much everywhere. In order to prevent this happening in the future, I figured I’d write up a simple best practices article on handling passwords and authentication. There’s nothing particularly new here, but it’s always worthwhile revisiting the basics.

Git and GitHub: A Revised Course

Traduzindo a wiki - translated do Portuguese

Traduzindo a wiki

Idiomas Suportados

Caso seu idioma não apareça na barra de navegação, por favor solicite em
Lista de e-mails da wiki.

Princípio fundamental

* O conteúdo da wiki é escrito em Inglês Americano na wiki “raiz” e então traduzida para diversos idiomas. Todo conteúdo original deve ser primeiro escrito em Inglês e então inserido na wiki “raiz”.

Traduzindo a wiki - translated do Portuguese

Traduzindo a wiki

Idiomas Suportados

Caso seu idioma não apareça na barra de navegação, por favor solicite em
Lista de e-mails da wiki.

Princípio fundamental

* O conteúdo da wiki é escrito em Inglês Americano na wiki “raiz” e então traduzida para diversos idiomas. Todo conteúdo original deve ser primeiro escrito em Inglês e então inserido na wiki “raiz”.

OCR: Converting Images to Text with MODI

Joe Schmoe from Kokomo has a scanned image of a 300-page contract. Joe wishes he could search this file for certain rates and terms, but it's an image, not a text file. OCR might be just what the doctor ordered.

How Learning a Second Language Changed My Life

There’s an old joke I heard in India which goes something like this:

What do you call a person who speaks many languages? Multilingual

What do you call a person who speaks two languages? Bilingual

What do you call a person who speaks one language? American

Reserved Words You Can’t Use - Adding "target" and providing details for "action".

* ADDITIONAL_LOAD_PATHS
* ARGF
* ARGV
* ActionController
* ActionView
* ActiveRecord
* ArgumentError
* Array
* BasicSocket
* Benchmark
* Bignum
* Binding
* CGI
* CGIMethods
* CROSS_COMPILING
* Class
* ClassInheritableAttributes
* Comparable
* ConditionVariable
* Config
* Continuation
* DRb
* DRbIdConv
* DRbObject
* DRbUndumped
* Data
* Date
* DateTime
* Delegater
* Delegator
* Digest
* Dir
* ENV
* …

Event Checker: A tiny exercise for Ruby DSL

Revised Ruby with Shoes Course Announced

memcached and cache_fu

memcached is a popular caching solution in Rails community. cache_fu is an excellent plugin that makes it a breeze to deal with memcached. However going through the README of this plugin does not tell you much if you are new to this plugin.

Basics of memcached

memcached is a big topic. Here is an excellent resource to get started. Here I am going to discuss some basic things about memcached.

Katas Chris Parsons | Rails Fire

Katas Chris Parsons

Episode 100

Episode #100: Mustache edition. And hey, it’s episode 100!

The Ruby Show 100: And hey, it's episode 100!

Episode #100: Mustache edition. And hey, it's episode 100!

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