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Getting Real with Ruby on Rails and OS X Leopard

Monday, October 29th, 2007

So Apples new operating system comes with Ruby and Rails pre-installed along with a few standard gems. It does however lack a few things you may need to get your computer running as a development machine.
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Ruby on Rails 1.2 released!

Sunday, January 21st, 2007

Late last week the long awaited Ruby on Rails 1.2 was released including a whole host of new features. David’s blog post talks about the new release.

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Better Spam Detection

Thursday, December 28th, 2006

We have been trailing some new spam detection settings that should offer better spam detection for everyone. These new settings are going to rolled out over the next few days.

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The Topian - Building a web application

Wednesday, October 25th, 2006

We are currently working on a web application with Chris Garrett Media. We can’t tell you what it does yet, or even what it’s called. What we can tell you is how we are going to build it over at The Topian. Our plan is to post about as much of the applications planning, development, marketing, and design as we can.

OpenDNS

Tuesday, October 3rd, 2006

We have recently discovered OpenDNS, a company offering free a DNS service with some very useful added features.

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Smarty Template Engine Support

Sunday, September 3rd, 2006

Due to popular demand we have added Smarty Template Engine support to our servers. Smarty is a popular template engine written in PHP which allows you to easily separate code logic from presentation.

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Let’s Make Our Lives a Little More Secure

Friday, August 4th, 2006

We all like to feel secure, it makes us feel all warm inside. At Media72 we like to make you feel all warm and fuzzy, that’s why we provide secure connections for control panel, email and data connections. Why should you use secure connections? Quite simply, if you don’t, unscrupulous characters on the internet could grab your password or any information contained within the files you transmit. That means any text within an email or a file you upload or download.

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Which Mail Connection Method Should You Use?

Thursday, August 3rd, 2006

You may have heard of POP and IMAP before but not known what they mean or the difference between them. In this article we will look at the difference between the two connection methods and tell you which method is best for you. We also take a brief look at web-mail and how this fits in.

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