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WordPress, Ruby, Working Less, & More

March 11, 2011 / Tom / 0 Comments

Half way through March already. Yikes.

Nonetheless, here’s some of my favorite content from around the web this week:

Devise, Rails 3, & HTTP Authentication

March 7, 2011 / Tom / 0 Comments

I’ve been working on a Rails application in which I’m using Devise for the user account and authentication management library.

Out-of-the-box, Devise will throw up a browser dialog for authentication if the user fails properly login. For this particular project, I wanted to get rid of the dialog and exclusively use pages.

There were a number of small changes that I had to make to get this to work. Google wasn’t the biggest help, so here’s what I had to do in my specific case:

Scaling, Fonts, Rails Gems, & More

March 4, 2011 / Tom / 0 Comments

Some good stuff around the web this week. Here’s what I enjoyed:

Interviews, Comics, JSON, htaccess, & More

February 25, 2011 / Tom / 0 Comments

Here’s the usual link roundup for the past week:

Update htaccess To Prevent Hotlinking

February 23, 2011 / Tom / 0 Comments

One of the sites that I manage was sucking an inordinate amount of bandwidth over the past week or so.

The raw access logs showed that an image that I was hosting was being referenced on a number of different sites. Preventing this from happening is an easy fix: