John Topley

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Programming languages I have known: BASIC (both Sinclair and Visual), Object Pascal (Delphi), Smalltalk, Java, JavaScript, Ruby and Objective-C. Also: SQL, HTML, XML & CSS.

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How Can I Remove .DS_Store Files From A Git Repository?

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How Do You Clear The IRB Console?

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NoMethodError when trying to invoke helper method from Rails controller

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Why Are People Still Creating RSS Feeds?

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How Do You Secure database.yml?

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Which style of Ruby string quoting do you favour?

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Java equivalent to JavaScript's encodeURIComponent that produces identical output?

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Programming style: should you return early if a guard condition is not satisfied?

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Convert JavaScript String to be all lower case?

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Is Ruby On Rails ready for the Enterprise?

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What is the best way to convert an array to a hash in Ruby

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How Do You Clear The IRB Console?

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Best way to create custom config options for my Rails app?

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Are foreign keys really necessary in a database design?

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Is there a rails trick to adding commas to large numbers?

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Where can I see TFLog output on testflightapp.com?

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Rails :dependent => :destroy VS :dependent => :delete_all

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Defining foreign key relationships for Rails' models

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Google sitemap files for Rails projects

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Capistrano to deploy rails application - how to handle long migrations?

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Java equivalent to JavaScript's encodeURIComponent that produces identical output?

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In Rails, display time between two dates in English

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Identify GET and POST parameters in Ruby on Rails

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Replace text inside a DIV element

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Cascade delete in Ruby ActiveRecord models?

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“Touch” updated_at column in Rails 2.3.2

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ActiveRecord::Base Without Table

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Who's using Ruby on Rails in production?

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What advantage does a Mac (computer) give to a Rails developer?

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