You are a student and love to get in touch with people from around the globe. On Tourmandu you can offer a tour in your hometown and tourists can get in touch with you. You show them ’round and they pay/tip you afterwards. Not a bad idea :) Great part time income …

As the project has been recently launched its a bit empty, but have a look at some existing tour to get an idea of what i am talking about..

• Tours in Australia
• Tours is Paris, France
• Tours in Spain
• Tours in the USA
• Guides for Famous sightseeing spots

There are all new features described with an example. It’s quite amazing to see how rails evolves.
btw: did you know that there is finally an i18n patch in edge rails, to be released with rails 2.2? this is a solid foundation for other plugins to build on.

println("something")
println(array("some", "more", "lines"))

Lets see how we solve the solution in a nice way and how we will be able to create a function which is simply called [] (which is common syntax for an array in other languages).

First we create the println function which prints out the line(s):

sub println(line)
  lines = arrayize(line)
  for each l in lines
    response.write(l)
  next
end sub

As you can see we use an arrayize function internally which will ensure a variable to be an array. This little function does the job and helps us to keep our code nice and simple:

function arrayize(value)
  if isArray(value) then
    arrayize = value
  elseif isEmpty(value) then
    arrayize = array()
  else
    arrayize = array(value)
  end if
end function

Its straightforward but very effective. This function ensures a variable to be an array. If its already an array then its just passed trhough, otherwise the value is take as the first field of the array. In case of an empty variable it returns an empty array.

Thats it! But we go a step further and create an alias for it which will make the usage even more simpler. Lets check this:

function [](value)
  [] = arrayize(value)
end function

Exactly, we use the squared brackets (which are normally used to escape reserved words). Back to our first function it looks like this now:

sub println(line)
  for each l in [](line)
  response.write(l)
  next
end sub

I dont know about you guys, but i am very excited about this way. It makes my code much clearer now. Btw: This will be part of the version 2.0 of ajaxed.

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Amazing! The simplest methods using CSS had the best results. No Spam at all. There is just one question: How long will it take for the harvesters to adapt their algorithms to this research results?

(If you’re interested to see the detailed implementation of those methods just check the original article. I have skipped it.)

(Btw: this is my first post using an external tool for blogging - BlogDesk. Works perfect!)

But what about querying them with sql queries? Picture this: Show me all cookies from localhost and order them by expirydate. No problem, I’ll show you how…

The procedure is simple. We are lucky that Firefox stores its cookies in an Sqlite Database. Therefore we can simply access it with any database client which supports sqlite. Voilá! Our best candidate is the Firefox extension Sqlite-manager. This brilliant tool offers us a nice interface to access our beloved cookies.

1. Install Firefox extension Sqlite-manager
2. Launch it from Firefox (Extras > SQLite Manager)

It loads the cookies.sqlite database by default. Thats great because its exactly what we need. There is a table called moz_cookies which contains our cookies. Now its up to you .. query em’!

Did you ever run a popular website or serivce/product? If yes, then you know how hard it can be to discover which new features your users want. Collecting all the requests, giving response and analyzing which requests are most popular. All those tasks require a lot of organization and take some time. UserVoice offers a serivce which provides exactly those features. For your site visitors:

1. They submit ideas or vote for existing ideas
2. They discuss ideas with each other and with you
3. They get official reponse (featre planned, started, etc.)
4. They get heard!

Perfect service! Will definitely use it in my future projects…