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Login forms are broken in ruby on rails

14 Aug

It isn’t just Ruby on Rails login forms that are broken. The majority of login forms on the internet are fundamentally broken.

In what appears to be some form of risk management strategy, these login forms introduce a different risk to the websites that use the default behaviors – in RoR sites, this is often either AuthLogic or RestfulAuthentication.

Both are broken in a big way.

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New Twitter Notification Emails are Broken

11 May

So the twitter changed their notification emails for when someone follows you. And they are definitely an improvement over the old notifications.

But they are broken.

I’ve read several articles talking about the “richer, HTML version” of the email. Richer? What year is it?  Formatting doesn’t make something “rich”, data does.

Data is rich, markup is lame.

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One too many searches

27 Mar

I was messing around with the new Photoshop Express gizmo today and I clicked the help link.

It opened a new window to this page which looks like this screenshot (for those who dun wanna click.)

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