Why Cities Aren’t Covered in Empty Cans of Coconut Water

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As a comedian I’ve performed in over 30 countries, and I try to spend my days exploring the city I’m in. For years I’ve noticed a common thing in every one — litter. Not just any litter, the same litter in every city, in every country. You know the stuff I’m talking about — crumpled bags from Whole Foods and empty cans of Coconut Water, right? I’m kidding, we never see that. What I consistently observe is probably familiar to you as well — fast food wrappers, soda cans and cigarette butts. Whether at home or abroad, I often pick up after strangers, and this led to two incidents that stuck with me…

Non-Rails Frameworks in Ruby: Cuba, Sinatra, Padrino, Lotus

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It’s common for a Ruby developer to describe themselves as a Rails developer. It’s also common for someone’s entire Ruby experience to be through Rails. Rails began in 2003 by David Heinemeier Hansson, quickly becoming the most popular web framework and also serving as an introduction to Ruby for many developers.

Rails is great. I use it every day for my job, it was my introduction to Ruby, and this is the most fun I’ve ever had as a developer. That being said, there are a number of great framework options out there that aren’t Rails.

This article intends to highlight the differences between Cuba, Sinatra, Padrino, Lotus, and how they compare to or differ from Rails. Let’s have a look at some Non-Rails Frameworks in Ruby.

UK drinkers look at alcohol guidelines, laugh, and have another beer

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You will be shocked to hear that, according to a new report in the journal Addiction, the UK government’s drinking guidelines are incompatible with the UK’s drinking habits. Solving the problem might lie in a counterintuitive update: accepting the reality of binge drinking…

Why we don’t do business with big business (part 1)

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Note: this is the first of a two-part blog post. Part 2 can be read here. In this blog post, we look at some of our philosophy and values here at Three Rings CIC, and what it means for us to focus our efforts on selling Three Rings to community enterprises, charities, and voluntary organisations, rather…

Three Rings routinely gets contacted by commercial organisations who feel that the rota/volunteer management system would benefit them, but we don’t sell it to them. JTA wrote a pair of blog posts to explain why.

How can I make the most of my 3/4 monitor set-up?

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I can span KSP across them, but that doesn’t really help me as much as I’d like. What’d be really useful would be the ability to show the orbital view on one monitor and the staging view on another. Is there any way to achieve such a thing?

Normally when I’m faced with a problem I just add more boosters/struts, but that doesn’t seem to be helping this time.