Tim Blair: Web developer and interweb frontiersman

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is healthily sandwiching this morning's sausage sandwich and tonight's curry with a banana-and-batternberg shakeaway
RT @WUGC2012: http://t.co/YZW5WrYa Official website of WUGC2012 released. WUGC2012の大会公式ウェブサイトがオープンしました！ http
RT @AdrianPoynton: This is my amazing and exciting news: http://t.co/UvT3ylBD
@boffbowsh case use === which is aliased to is_a? at a class level, and NilClass isn't an *instance* of NilClass: http://t.co/iLXvYcQc
Bacon-Wrapped Scallops with Chili Butter http://t.co/CRYzvCYl via @thefancy
@jontarbuck more proof of the "take enough and one's *got* to look half-decent" approach to photography?
@thesambarnes therapy in luxury: http://t.co/lPsM5e5u
@pricetom @debbie killed her laptop by dropping it in the bath: does that count?
@ian_winter I'd be interested to know what your description of "normal" actually feels like?
RT @AdrianPoynton: Amazing. http://t.co/YT8tl0Ww

Writing Ruby Scripts That Respect Pipelines Make sure that when you build your command-line ruby apps, that they respect the unix pipeline...
Turbocharging Solr Index Replication with BitTorrent Etsy use Solr for their search, and were having problems replicating changes from master to slave in a sensible amount of time, so they rebuilt replication using BitTorrent.
Bytefluent | Vivify Build or edit your own Vim colour scheme using the nifty online editor.
The Little Redis Book Introduction to Redis in just 29 pages.
Rate limiting with Redis A good description of a nice, fast implementation of rate limiting using Redis.