Prateek Dayal

Lately I have been finding that firefox is eating up so much memory in my system. After long usage (with even few tabs open), the memory usage on my system shoots up to a crazy 500 MB + which is insane. I have seen this a couple of times now and there are other people [...]

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I read a post today on techcrunch about Danny Carlton who has blocked all users of firefox from accessing his blog. Readers from firefox are redirected to why firefox is blocked page. The reason is that firefox is endorsing the adblock plugin which blocks the ads but does not let the website owners block users [...]

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The post should be called my ruby on rails learning curve. I just wanted to write about what it was for a person like me to learn ruby on rails and get productive in it and make something like Muziboo.com
I was introduced to rails by a cousin of mine when I was trying to decide [...]

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If you are using counter_cache, you must watch out for this one. I am not sure if this has been fixed in the recent version, but the version that I am using (1.15.3) has the issue
If you are using counter_cache (such as in acts_as_commentable as described here), you must make sure that after updating the [...]

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The active record validation is finally working with mongrel_upload_progress … yayee. To read more about what the issue was, follow this post
I will try to explain my setup and then the solution to the problem
I am trying to watch /song/upload with mongrel_upload_progress plugin. Inside /song/upload, I save the song if the validation passes (such as [...]

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I am working on Muziboo these days and everytime I see someone use the site and upload something, thats one great moment. It made me specially happy to listen to the piece below. Its from the movie roja (tamil),

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