• Gruff Graphs for Ruby | Ruby on Rails for Newbies
  The Gruff Graphing Library is a project to make beautiful graphs with Ruby. Can be used alone or with Ruby on Rails.
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• Using Multiple Databases with Ruby On Rails – Programmer Assist
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• Multiple Databases in Rails
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• What is a Burn Ban? | Puget Sound Clean Air Agency
  Link to information about burn bans and reporting violations
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• Class: ActiveRecord::Base
  Connecting to multiple DBs on the model level is the way to go. Use “establish_connection :conn” in the model, and make an ‘environment’ called conn: in your database.yml. All should be good to go at that point.
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• Infovore : Cross-model searching in Rails with Ferret
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• Rails Framework Documentation
  (tags: Rails Ruby RoR documentation webdocs api reference)
• Overview (Java 2 Platform SE v1.4.2)
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• What Tree is That at arborday.org
  You can identify most trees by studying their leaves, seeds, and fruit. This animation will help you learn to identify these characteristics and take a “step-by-step” approach to arrive at the name of your tree. Once you master these skills, it will be a
  (tags: tree identification id Reference nature plants trees flora)
• How to Fix a Stuck Pixel on an LCD Monitor – WikiHow
  How to Fix a Stuck Pixel on an LCD Monitor

  If your LCD screen has a stuck or dead pixel , it’s usually malfunctioning because the liquid in the liquid crystal display (TFT LCD) has not covered the whole screen. This can often be fixed.

  (tags: fix stuck pixels lcd howto pixel monitor)
• Ferret Search Library Documentation
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Giving Photographers a Bad Name…

Originally uploaded by icopythat.

I can’t believe this. She is from all accounts an unlicensed photographer on a closed course. A closed course with a timed finish. There are people running this marathon to qualify for other marathons. She is threatening the safety of each and every runner for her own gain. If she were a REAL photojournalist, she would have gone to the trouble of getting prtess credentials. Lacking that she just jumps the line and gets in everyon’es way. As a photographer I’m ashamed.

• Label Placement in Forms :: UXmatters
  Interesting scientific experiment to show how label placement in regards to its associated form field helps or hidners usability of web forms. With a very intereting result…
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• Install latest Synergy on Ubuntu » eightpence – Phil Crosby
  Godsend of a blog article on installing Synergy on Ubuntu. Check out the comments if you hit additional errors.
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• Making a Senseo Pod
  Make your own coffee pods
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