There was a lot of articles about HTML5 last days, so when Alexey Kovyrin asked me to help him with his new blog design I saw no other choice but using HTML5. There are a lot of new features added since HTML4, and some of them could be used today, like new elements <header>, <footer>, <nav>, <article>, <section>, etc. I think this is a nice addition to the HTML, because these elements add more sense to an unstructured markup. There is a buzzword “semantic” exists to describe this, but I don’t like buzzwords, so I would call it “sense”. So what features we could get from HTML5, that are supported by all modern browsers?
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Sometimes we need to write small console scripts which do some background processing on our models. In Scribd we are using Loops to run these tasks (check Alexey Kovyrin’s introduction post). One of our scripts supposed to generate some sort of html reports, and we need to generate links to our site there.
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Today my friend asked me to help him with an unexpected behavior of Ruby’s Hash.uniq method. Here is an example:
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| [{"id"=>667824693}, {"id"=>667824693}].uniq
# => [{"id"=>667824693}, {"id"=>667824693}]
[{"id"=>66782469}, {"id"=>66782469}].uniq
# => [{"id"=>66782469}]
[{"id"=>6678246931}, {"id"=>6678246931}].uniq
# => [{"id"=>6678246931}] |
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