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ruffdevon printf("goodbye, Dennis");

Pure class from The Economist

ruffdevon Circle Navigation Effect - Bubble-like thumbnail preview using CSS3

This's pretty good if it's just CSS

ruffdevon Keymaster.js: painless keyboard shortcuts for javascript

Why do we have a semicolon at the start?

;(function(global)

ruffdevon Can PostgreSQL pickup where MySQL left off?

thanks for all these points. I am doing a presentation tomorrow on the same and all these points will help!

ruffdevon Stop using SQLite for Rails dev

Just for the info, for all those using SQLLite with Rails, check this add-on https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sqlite-manage...

ruffdevon Stop using SQLite for Rails dev

SQLite is a good engine, but it's still an in process (or desktop) style engine. In process engines have inherent weaknesses in terms of concurrency that make them a fundamentally poor choice over server-based engines like MySQL for web sites or other scenarios with the potential for a lot of simultaneous write access.