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Using Raw SQL snippets to create Thinking-Sphinx Indexes

We have used Thinking-Sphinx in several projects to implement search engines. Thinking-Sphinx is a wrapper in Ruby to use ActiveRecord with Sphinx. But in the project I’m working right now I...

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How to send a large quantity of email in Rails, using ar_mailer

Sending a large number of emails is not an easy task. It can take a lot of time so you need to do it asynchronously....

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Facebook GUI free PSD resource

Facebook developers already have a useful info on Facebook components documentation, i.e., they count on Facebook FBML wiki as reference. Thinking of designers and, of course, ourselves as...

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iPad Characteristics

This is abstract about key iPad features and characteristics. Here...

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iBoobs banned from the App Store: no more sexy ladies (or men) on the iPhone.

With iPhone OS 3.0, Apple added an age rating system for applications. This not only allowed parents to set appropriate application access for their families, but also opened up the potential for...

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Where Technology and Religion Collide

I am always fascinated with the amount of enthusiasm my colleagues at Surgeworks have, when it comes to bringing the positive influence of such a vast amount of information within the positive...

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iPod Touch 4th Generation, iPad revision and new mysterious iDevice coming in autumn

A lot and a little at the same time is known about the next generation iPod Touch. Rumors are everywhere already, but we really don’t know for sure any of its specs. The new iTouch will...

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How to install QuickTime Player 7 on Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard without the DVD

If you found this post, you need some feature that used to be available in QuickTime Player 7 PRO and you can’t find it anymore on your hard disk after a clean install of Snow Leopard....

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Copy of an NSObject subclass

NSObject class does not support copying so it has to be implemented in its subclass. If a class MyClass is an NSObject subclass, it needs to implement NSCopying protocol and its copyWithZone...

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Android iPad knockoffs… pass

We have a tablet running android that we use for testing software development. While it is an interesting device, I expected it to be easier to use. This tablet is labeled “iRobot”, a...

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Improve your spelling skills while having lots of fun!

Our friends and coworkers at Surgeworks Mobile released an awesome iPhone game application called “Letter Blocks World“. We are playing with it for days now and having lots of fun!...

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Explaining the Sitemap SEO Myth

It seems to me that the most common SEO misconception that occurs is the one regarding the sitemap. I often see discussions on business forums about SEO and a very common advice people get when...

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Basic folder structure for new Magento module

When I had first contact with Magento platform, I had to create a custom module for it. I thought to myself – how hard can it be? How wrong I was… I didn’t even know where to...

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10 Useful Tips to Increase Your E-commerce Conversion Rates – Ninja Edition

Finally, it was about time to release one of my Ninja posts to the public. Who knows, maybe you will find another ninja post from time to time… If you don’t know what I’m talking...

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Best development IDE for web on Linux

There are many tools available for developing web applications, but if you use Linux, the situation is dramatically changed. There are only few compared to other platforms. First of all, I will...

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