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Belief Systems
I recently heard a TV personality ridicule religious people by saying they are crazy because their beliefs are not provable, and in his opinion, have been proved wrong. He attacked all religions but specifically attacked the Mormon religion. I wasn’t too offended because I know that he says stuff to shock people. However, I have learned that there is more than one way to build beliefs and knowledge.
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Enticing Computer Science Majors
What enticed you to become what you are today? For me, Computer Science enticed me by giving me the following
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Ruby on Rails - RESTful Drag and Drop
Ruby on Rails and the script.acul.ous library make drag and drop really easy. Just by adding one line of code, and you can make anything in your page draggable. With another line of code, you can make anything receive a draggable element.
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Rails Pagination with AJAX
When I upgraded to Rails 2.0, I quickly found out that pagination was removed from the rails code base. In order to get it you have to install a plugin. After searching on the web I found two possible plugins classic pagination, and will_paginate. I choose will_paginate because it is more efficient and works directly with the model.
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Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
The dean of my college gave all the faculty this book. I really enjoyed reading it. It was a page turner that made me think a lot about success in my own life.