October 2006
Dave Naffis : Ruby on Rails, Ajax & CSS Star Rating System
by cascamorto & 2 others
I’m sure everyone by now has seen those oh-so-Web 2.0 star rating features on hundreds of websites. Well I needed to implement one for a site I’m working on and I couldn’t find a complete example anywhere (not in RoR). So here it is. A complete Rails based Ajax and CSS star ratings sytem with some RJS thrown in for good measure.
September 2006
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July 2006
Significant Performance Boost For XP
by cascamorto & 8 others (via)
Do you want to make the very best use of your computer's RAM? There are thousands of websites offering performance tweaks for XP and you could spend the next week or more researching the ones you might like to perform, or you can save yourself a lot of bother and read this article. There are hundreds of XP tweaks, but you only need the handful listed here to obtain a significant performance boost. The rest of the tweaks you might find will only give you minor and often indiscernible performance benefits. If you don't have 512MB of RAM or more, there are tweaks here that you can apply anyway, but the best performance boost you'll ever get will be obtained by increasing your RAM.
