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# in soviet russia, software pirates you!

From. I’m surprised that Iceland is second, and it would be interesting to know what proportion is made up by the various Microsoft products.

# rake database tasks are improved

rake db:drop
rake db:create
rake db:reset

Me likey.

# first look at google gears

‘A diskspace reserver’ written in Javascript and Google Gears.

In all seriousness, you probably don’t want to click the above link – I ended up with a 1.2GB database on disk after a few minutes. All it does is write a lot of data to a database. (If you do click the link, and install Google Gears, you probably want to delete the database file which is in the location specified on the page.)

You can safely view the code here and see how easy it is to store data locally. It also shows that there aren’t really any limits to the amount of data you can store using Gears, which is what I was testing.

Watch out for a more useful demo …

# acts_as_numericality is nearly good

acts_as_numericality gets some improvements. Still needs a :between or :in option though.

jsvi is a vi-clone written in pure javascript and should work in any modern web-browser.

Very impressive, although not being able to cut and paste to the OS’ clipboard is a major limitation. The author must understand this.