My new RSS feed location

If you’re reading this on a feed reader, first of all, good on ya! Second of all, I’m now running my feed through Feed Burner, so check out the link and update accordingly.

Lord, beer me strength.
—Jim Halpert

Two tips for updating to Rails 2.0

  1. Check your routes for nested resources — :name_prefix isn’t blank by default anymore. Now it’s set to the singular of the parent resource. You can explicitly make that blank, use some find-and-replace regex-fu to fix your url helpers, and even get rid of url helpers altogether from your link_tos and form_fors.
  2. Not necessarily essential, but it’s nice to replace the old rhtml extensions for the shiny new html.erb. This bash one-liner should do the trick: for i in `find . -type f -name "*.rhtml" | xargs`; do svn mv $i `echo $i|sed 's/rhtml/html.erb/'`; done

There is love because, love in order to, love for the purpose of, and then there is love, period.
—Rob Bell

Radiohead - In Rainbows

Digging their entrepreneurship. And the music’s good, too, natch. I think we’re just about at the tipping point of bands dropping their labels and interacting directly with their fans.

Hands on MySQL Backup & Migration

All sorts of MySQL backup tools and techniques. A good overview of online vs. offline and data dumps vs. raw. It even dips a toe into remote backups. Worth a bookmark.