Use screen when you want to manage multiple sessions in a terminal. Install it on Ubuntu sudo apt-get install screen There are a lot of options for screen. I won't go into them. I use screen most often when I shell into a remote server and want to hop i...

Remove cell padding on a table you add the cellspacing attribute and set it to "0". Is there a better way to do this with straight up CSS? Nothing seems to work... <table id='my-favorite-table' cellspacing="0" > ...

You can download it here http://github.com/suitmymind/acts-as-taggable-on-steroids as well as read usage info (which is for the most part reprinted here). ./script/plugin install http://svn.viney.net.nz/things/rails/plugins/acts_as_taggable_on_steroids ....

I wrote a review for Joseph Thibault's Moodle News on extension development for Moodle. The book is quite good and I think an essential resource for anyone wanting to develop in Moodle. The book focuses on plugin development, but it will also give you an ...

I recently watched a RailsCasts episode (http://railscasts.com/episodes/168-feed-parsing) on parsing and persisting RSS feeds using Feedzirra. It took a little setting up on Ubuntu because it relies on some libraries that aren't included with Ubuntu > 8. ...