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smartly_caches, smarter than ever

Please note that the problem introduced here and the technique proposed to solve it can be applied for any RESTful web application. The post might be using Rails terminologies/expressions/code only for demonstration.

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script/console Reload Models

If you are one of those Rails applications developers, then you would have used this command before:

ruby script/console

It is very nice and gives you the ability to load your environment and try it as you wish, but what if you changed anything in the application models? You will find that the console isn't aware of these changes at all!

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A Quick Start to Octave

Two days ago, I have started working on a new web application that manages a power quality monitoring and analysis system. The system consists of multiple sensors that are spread through multiple locations and periodically send readings to the server which pass the data to an Octave script to process and analyze.

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A Google Maps View for The iPhone

If you've been following the development of location based applications under Android and the iPhone you must have seen a lot of comparison charts showing the strengths and weaknesses of each SDK and mentioning the differences. Well, now you can cross one difference off that list! Continue[…]

OpenFire: a Java Jabber/XMPP server

OpenFire is an open source project from igniterealtime. It is an IM (Instant Messaging) server that can be installed on any corporate private network to provide IM solutions to its community. It uses the popular Jabber/XMPP protocol so you can communicate with it through almost any multi-protocol IM client (Pidgin for example). It has a counterpart IM client, Spark.

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