The New York Times used Ruby on Rails to pull together, analyze and display election results in near real time on one of its busiest Web traffic days ever. How did nytimes.com scale up Rails — a framework known for quick development turnaround but less than lightning fast performance?

“The secret is, we didn’t,” Ben Koski told a session at the Professional Ruby Conference in Boston Tuesday. Instead, Koski and others in the Times’ interactive new media group used low-level SQL commands for some key data-manipulation tasks. And while some Rails purists might frown upon choosing SQL over Rails’ own higher-level interactions with data, Koski said the direct SQL commands helped slash the time needed to process thousands of records from 30 seconds to about 1 second — a major boost when election result files were literally being updated by the minute.
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Problem
getting this error message on all my pages “the following translators were not loaded due to errors: XSLT.htm: has configuration information that is invalid.” while open, create and change something in file.. in Adobe Dreamweaver CS3/Dreamweaver 8.0

OR

The following translators were not loaded due to errors:
Spry.htm: has configuration information that is invalid.
XSLT.htm: has configuration information that is invalid.
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In almost every app you create there is a contact form. Since you repeat the same steps over and over. So it’s better to create a ror plugin: contact form generator.

The generator gives you a good starting point for further modifications.
Specs will be generated if Rspec is available.
Dependencies: ActiveForm plugin

Installation
script/plugin install git://github.com/cs/active_form.git
script/plugin install git://github.com/masone/contact-form-generator.git
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Session hijacking

Stealing a user’s session id lets an attacker use the web application in the victim’s name.

Many web applications have an authentication system: A user provides a user name and
password, the web application checks them and stores the corresponding user id in the
session hash. From now on, the session is valid. On every request the application will
load the user, identified by the user id in the session, without the need for new authentication.
The session id in the cookie identifies the session.
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Want to improve blog performance, here some stuff that might help:

* Blog Metrics - Six recommendations for measuring your success
* Blog analytics tools
* The 7 most important metrics for Bloggers
* Using stats and goal tracking for your blog

Once you work-out what’s important to you (and your blog) and more importantly, how you’ll measure these goals over time - the next step is to make sure your blog is Search Engine ready.
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CleverValidation is an extension to the existing rails validation methods that includes the ability to customize your validation error messages and features javascript functionality for adding a bit of interaction to your validations via scriptaculous effects.

Repository: git://github.com/two2twelve/clever_validation.git

Usage Example
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Happy Diwali!, Shubh Deepavali.

Find Diwali SMS and text message below:
Best and the Most Heartfelt Diwali Messages and Diwali SMS and text messages

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ANNAMALAI UNIVERSITY, B Ed (DDE) Exam Result 2008

Annamalai University Distance Education Regular Stream and Open University Stream Examinations

Annamalai University DDE(Directorate of Distance Education)
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