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how to ignore *.php requests using Apache

By etagwerker | Published: September 1, 2010
This will redirect any *.php requests to your 404.html and save resources in your server.
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getting started with acts_as_state_machine

By etagwerker | Published: August 26, 2010
This is a note to self. Remember to define all states for an object before you start referencing it. If not, you will get an error like this: "You have a nil object when you didn't expect it! The error occurred while evaluating nil.entering"
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SVG Javascript chart libraries

By etagwerker | Published: July 20, 2010
The last couple of weeks I worked on a feature that required to display a set of charts. Namely, a pie chart and a bar chart. One of them had to be interactive. We didn't want a Flash chart. I did some research and found these libraries: gRaphaël Highcharts Google Chart Tools
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