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• We had an excellent tech talk on Vertebra from Ezra Zygmuntowicz and the folks at EngineYard. If you’ve ever been a sysadmin responsible for many boxes, you’ll appreciate the awesome potential of Vertebra…

• NetBeans and symlinks: a team was having problems with symlinks in SVN disappearing after a client edited the project in NetBeans. No, he was not using Windows…

• Here are some tips for working with acts_as_paranoid (We have helpers for some of these in our common libraries):

Add :scope for validates_uniqueness_of

validates_uniqueness_of :user_id, :scope => :deleted_at

Add :conditions for named_scope with :joins

named_scope :friends,
          :select => "users.*",
          :joins => :paranoid_relation,
          :conditions => 'paranoid_relations.deleted_at IS NULL',

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• acts_as_paranoid isn’t upgrading well as we move to newer Rails versions. What are the best alternatives?

• A team was is having problems getting PHP to read php.ini…