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Paul Rand

• Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions; there is no single definition. Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated.

• Providing, meaning to a mass of unrelated needs, ideas, words and pictures - it is the designer's job to select and fit this material together and make it interesting.

• Simplicity is not the goal. It is the by-product of a good idea and modest expectations.

Shigeo Fukuda

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# If your workers are inactive for a long period of time, they'll lose
# their MySQL connection.
#
# This hack ensures we re-connect whenever a connection is
# lost. Because, really. why not?
#
# Stick this in RAILS_ROOT/config/initializers/connection_fix.rb (or somewhere similar)
#
# From:
#   http://coderrr.wordpress.com/2009/01/08/activerecord-threading-issues-and-resolutions/

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class String
  def to_bool
    return true   if self == true   || self =~ (/(true|t|yes|y|1)$/i)
    return false  if self == false  || self.blank? || self =~ (/(false|f|no|n|0)$/i)
    raise ArgumentError.new("invalid value for Boolean: \"#{self}\"")
  end
end

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Routing in Ember

In Ember, the application's state manager handles routing. Let's take a look at a simple example:

App.stateManager = Ember.StateManager.create({
  start: Ember.State.extend({
    index: Ember.State.extend({
      route: "/",

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config.action_controller.asset_host = Proc.new { |source, request = nil, *_|
  request && request.ssl? ? 'https://s3.amazonaws.com/my_bucket' : 'http://s3.my-domain.com'
}

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1/ rails generate controller controller_name --assets=false

or

2/ Add these lines to application.rb:
config.generators.stylesheets = false
config.generators.javascripts = false

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1/ Create a box file

vagrant box add uitl http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8072848/centos-5.7-x86_64.box

2/ vagrant init
3/ vagrant up
4/ vagrant ssh
5/ vagrant box list

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Fix SSL certificate error when installing RVM on Centos

echo insecure >> ~/.curlrc

and then install as normal

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Start XCode and create a new Storyboard file. I closed all my other XCode projects. When you choose the location of the created file, it should be your RubyMotion project's resources directory. Add a UIViewController, and set it's identifier property to "Start". Add some UI elements so you can see it working.

When you run rake in your RubyMotion project, it will compile the .storyboard file. You could auto-load the Storyboard using a plist configuration, but you'll see code can do it too.

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watch /src\/.*\.haml/ do |md| `thor convert:haml` end
watch /src\/.*\.rb/ do |md| `thor convert:haml` end
watch /src\/.*\.scss/ do |md| `thor convert:sass` end
watch /src\/.*\.sass/ do |md| `thor convert:sass` end
watch /src\/.*\.coffee/ do |md| `thor convert:coffee` end