Monthly Archives: February 2010

Rails Migrations and Schemas

A schema.rb file is typically a ruby script containing a call to the ActiveRecord::Schema.define method. A rails migration is a ruby class which inherits from ActiveRecord::Migration and contains a method called up The useful fact that I realized only after … Continue reading

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Tea and Coffee and newspaper articles

So another one of these articles, shock horror, some public body has spent thousands of pounds buying hot drinks for their staff. Clearly, the whole lot of them should be hanged  … except, if you look at the figures quoted, … Continue reading

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Best Mobile Broadband?

Happened to be in a major supermarket’s electronics section the other day and was told that the “3” network offers the best mobile broadband. Although oddly all of the O2 retail hardware boxes were sold out, plenty of “3” boxes … Continue reading

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