Reminder - rails forms with file uploads

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Just a quick reminder for myself: if you're doing a form that is uploading files, remember to add :multipart => true to the form tag, e.g.:
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< % form_for(:product, :url => products_path(@product), :html => {:multipart => true, :method => :put }) do |f| %>

< %= f.file_field :photo %>

< % end %>
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Insanely easy tabbed web pages with Prototype

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I came across this today when trying to find an easier way to present a six-part form in a Rails project - a tabbed interface system built upon Prototype (an integral part of Rails). Called Control.Tabs it makes tabbed interfaces a synch to do: simply add an unordered list containing links to the blocks containing your to-be-tabbed content, and add a line of JavaScript to start the ball rolling - that's it!

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Two most important things for PHP development

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After having developed in PHP for many years I've realized that the two most important things a developer can do are:

Those two simple changes will greatly help reduce problems in your code. Now to just get all OSS developers to do the same...

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(not going to finish) Production web serving with Cygwin - PHP, Ruby on Rails & ColdFusion

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Note: I'm not going to finish this article as ultimately I ran into problems with Cygwin so migrated to running all Windows-native tasks. Still, in its raw state someone might find some use out of it.

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