John Topley

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Enterprise Java by day, Ruby on Rails and Objective-C by night.

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What's Your Favourite IRB Trick?

ruby irb asked Sep 23 '08 at 20:04

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56 votes

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

git osx bash asked Sep 20 '08 at 9:15

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29 votes

How Do I Access The Host From VMware Fusion?

networking vmware asked Sep 14 '08 at 16:32

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28 votes

Why Are People Still Creating RSS Feeds?

xml rss atom asked Aug 15 '08 at 17:27

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28 votes

Use of login/logout is inconsistent and incorrect

feature-request status-completed login logout grammar asked Nov 10 '09 at 12:18

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26 votes

How Do You Clear The IRB Console?

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26 votes

Stack Overflow logo on maintenance page has the wrong aspect ratio

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25 votes

NoMethodError when trying to invoke helper method from Rails controller

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23 votes

How Do You Secure database.yml?

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17 votes

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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Are foreign keys really necessary in a database design?

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

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

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How Do You Clear The IRB Console?

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Nominations: New Stack Overflow Moderator

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

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Additional Badge Ideas

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Rails model without database

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

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A method to reverse effect of java String.split()?

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In Rails, display time between two dates in English

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

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

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Identify GET and POST parameters in Ruby on Rails

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ActiveRecord::Base Without Table

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Worst Java practice found in your experience?

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“Touch” updated_at column in Rails 2.3.2

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Google sitemap files for Rails projects

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Best Solution For Authentication in Ruby on Rails

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Who's using Ruby on Rails in production?

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Is Stack Overflow reputation marketable?

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Replace text inside a DIV element

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

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Cascade delete in Ruby ActiveRecord models?

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Does dependency injection exist in Rails?

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How to know whether a model is new or not?

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OpenID authentication in Ruby on Rails

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Is it possible with Java to delete to the Recycle Bin?

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