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Jan 03

Big SEO’s with Crawlers: Lets See Your Stats

OK I'm just ecstatic with my new crawler, I think nobody but Google has one better than me, and I'm ready for a good old fashion show-and-tell. Multi-threaded programming is a bear to deal with and I've written several crawlers in different languages. For years I've been plagued with ...

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Nov 21

Ad Blockers can Ruin Your Legitimate Web App that Isn’t Even Serving Ads

Code, Ruby on Rails 2 Comments »

Since rebranding some of our old classifieds sites and relaunching the system as OhSoHandy.com in a newly built Ruby on Rails app we've received a handful of emails complaining about strange behavior that always involved links not appearing for the user.

How do you read the rest of the postings or see any pictures that were uploaded?!?! There are no links on the classifieds to keep reading them. Please help since I am new to the website.

At first I discounted this as user error. "These fools don't know how to use the internets!" DELETE.

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Jul 04

New columns not immediately available in migrations

Code, Ruby on Rails 4 Comments »

Sometimes you add a column to a table in a migration and then you want populate the new column with some data. Run your migration and while your column has been created in the database, your data does not populate. The problem is that those columns are not ...

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Jun 21

Lighthouse Bug Tracking Review

Bug Tracking, Code, Ruby on Rails 5 Comments »

We've been using Basecamp for some time now to manage multiple projects and I have really enjoyed it except for the lack of integrated issue/bug tracking. I've tried hacking to-do lists and categorizing messages but I just can't make Basecamp work for our issue tracking even though I don't ...

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Jun 09