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Re: New Logo for Okta done In-house

metavida — Fri, 16 Dec 2022 23:40:09 -0000

So confused why they decided the right logo for an identity management service was “many knives stabbed into a white melon.” I was hoping this was gonna get a full review so that I could read the corporate brand reasoning that Okta provided, but alas.

Re: Introducing CloudFlare Registrar: Designed for Security, Not the Masses

metavida — Sat, 27 Feb 2016 17:59:17 -0000

Ah, sure enough! In that blog post it says "Multi-User is an Enterprise-only feature". That said, the CloudFlare Registrar appears to be an Enterprise-only feature too. So if you're going to use CF Registrar then you're going to have access to CF's multi-use features as well.

Re: Introducing CloudFlare Registrar: Designed for Security, Not the Masses

metavida — Fri, 26 Feb 2016 00:43:17 -0000

CloudFlare introduce multi-user organizations in April 2015. We use them at my company & it works great! https://blog.cloudflare.com...

Re: The tech diversity blind spot

metavida — Mon, 09 Nov 2015 09:02:11 -0000

A quick search got me this article comparing CS graduation rates of black & Hispanics students vs Google's diversity numbers: http://venturebeat.com/2014...

Re: Give!Guide 2014 Results

metavida — Wed, 14 Jan 2015 16:29:51 -0000

Perhaps you meant "South*east* Portland has finally overtaken Northeast"?

Regardless, congrats on a great initiative & a great year of giving!

Re: Quick Tip – 06: Use the Four-Value Syntax to Properly Position Background Images

metavida — Thu, 17 Jul 2014 11:31:40 -0000

I did a bit more browser testing today & discovered that Safari 7 (desktop) and Safari on iOS 7 both now support this new syntax! Unfortunately the default Android browser still fails miserably.

Re: Turtles All the Way Down

metavida — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 12:23:03 -0000

Actually, as recent Rails CVEs have demonstrated, you should not blindly load user-generated YAML files. YAML files can encode arbitrary Ruby objects, so even if a motivated attacker can only modify a YAML file, they can hunt for all sorts of fun exploits. (For example https://community.rapid7.co... )

Re: Dr. Quaker and Mr. Quaker

metavida — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 10:29:36 -0000

Yeah, I'd love to see more detailed photos of the Quaker man himself. The weight loss was the first thing I noticed when I saw the new logo in stores (well other that the updated holding shape I guess).

Re: Welcome to our 4 (four!?) new hires | UserVoice Blog

metavida — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 22:16:23 -0000

Congrats on the growth! Always an exciting phase. Also, why no interrobang in this blog post's title‽

Re: Your code is broken, and Ruby can help you fix it

metavida — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 09:56:40 -0000

Wow, nicely response! Those are some great tips that I'll have to start integrating into my own projects.

Re: The polls are open for the Jenkins Logo Contest!

metavida — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 16:04:04 -0000

Voted for #9. Love the calm, smug, satisfied look on his face. Jenkins knows he's doing his job well to help my day go more smoothly! Plus, a blue tie for a working build would be wonderful.

I like the icon from #10, but the orange isn't my favorite. #3 would be my 3rd choice.

I agree with the others that the winning designer should be given the option to do a few more related iterations to clean up last details.

Re: http://rubyquicktips.tumblr.com/post/3096503536

metavida — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 15:07:59 -0000

Looks like the "exists?" method works efficiently with has_many :through and has_and_belongs_to_many relationships too. Cool!

Re: http://rubyquicktips.tumblr.com/post/3096503536

metavida — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 15:03:38 -0000

Two comments. First, I was looking at what these methods are doing internally. It's probably helpful to know the inverse methods that use COUNT(*) instead of SELECT (*)

blog.posts.present? === !blog.posts.blank?
# (see http://apidock.com/rails/Ob...
blog.posts.any? === !blog.posts.empty?
# (see http://apidock.com/rails/Ac...

Second, if the relationship is a has_many :through or has_and_belongs_to_many then this tip doesn't apply. Calling blog.post_authors.any? or !blog.post_authors.empty? will both use SELECT (*). If you want to use COUNT (*) you'll have to use blog.post_authors.count == 0

Re: Java.net migration status update

metavida — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 17:00:58 -0000

Yay for another great open source project ending up on GitHub! Hope the move goes smoothly despite the unexpected start of this transition.

Re: Using version constants with Jeweler at technical.pickles

metavida — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 10:34:29 -0000

I just added the following inside the Trogdor Class, below the Version module definition:

VERSION = Version::STRING

The best of both worlds? Overkill?

Re: http://rubyquicktips.tumblr.com/post/1197849149

metavida — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 10:07:51 -0000

The best explanation I've seen is that copy += "bar" is just a shortcut for copy = copy + "bar" and according to the documentation, the + method "Returns a new String". << on the other hand "Concatenates to the given object."
http://ruby-doc.org/core/cl...

To me, this seems similar to String#succ vs. String#succ! where one returns a new String instance and the other modifies the object in place.

Re: http://rubyquicktips.tumblr.com/post/1114012305

metavida — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 10:21:49 -0000

Nice simple tip. After a bit more digging I discovered that next (and break) allow a parameter as a return value. For example:

results =  (0..5).map do |i|
  next('even') if i % 2 == 0
  i
end
results #=> ['even', 1, 'even', 3, 'even', 5]

Re: Using “and” and “or” in Ruby

metavida — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 14:02:47 -0000

I absolutely agree, remi! I can't see myself ever using that demonstration code in a real product :-)

Re: Using “and” and “or” in Ruby

metavida — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 10:09:02 -0000

I guess technically you could do something like this if you wanted an "else" block. Though it's probably simpler to use an if-else rather than remembering to always return true at the end of your "and" block. If you forget that crucial step, or a future developer doesn't realize it, you'll end up never reaching the "or" block.

user = User.find_by_login('reynardmh') and begin # do some stuff, because we found a user! true end or begin # do other stuff, because we didn't find a user! end

Re: Declining Negative Votes – UserVoice Blog

metavida — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 10:41:16 -0000

Nicely said, Evan. I was a part of the debate on this suggestion a while back & want to say thanks to the UserVoice team for taking the community seriously, engaging in discussion and ultimately saying no when you think that's best. Not an easy decision, but a good one to be able to make.

Re: http://rubyquicktips.tumblr.com/post/831412465

metavida — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 12:00:06 -0000

grep or awk are nice, but you need to know how to construct the searches correctly. Especially if you're using the Kernel#p method instead of puts. Searching for "p" without some sort of limiting regexp doesn't help at all. This tip provides a friendly implementation that's easy for all rubyists to understand.

Re: TaskPaper for iPhone beta testers...

metavida — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 14:23:10 -0000

Well shoot, today is the first day I've read your blog & I just missed the beta! I'd also love to know if you ever need more beta testers.

Re: oohEmbed.com

metavida — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 18:08:54 -0000

Looking over the source code it looks like LongURL is supposed to use oohEmbed to grab details about a resource once the URL has been expanded. But as far as I can tell that feature isn't working on the live site: http://api.longurl.org/v1/e...

Re: Launching UserVoice for Enterprise

metavida — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 07:49:56 -0000

Congrats on the enterprise launch & redesign.