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Thanks for Making it Unnecessarily Hard to Get a Harry Potter Book on My Daughter’s Kindle
Exclusive Dealers Apparently, JK Rowling made a deal with Sony to exclusively sell Harry Potter e-books on the Sony e-book through the Pottermore site, through January 2012. What I found out today was that I still had to go to that site in order to buy any e-book version of the Harry Potter books. That posed a major…
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Monkey patching if you need to force an error in delayed_job
I wanted to force an error condition in my cucumber tests, but the code ran through a DelayedJob, so I couldn’t redefine the code running under the .delay chain, because the DelayedJob worker will reload the normal code base for its processing. I finally realized that simply patching the delay instance method to return self…
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How long until a randomly chosen string of letters with no results shows up in Google if I include it in a post?
Inquiring minds want to know. So, I’m including a string of letters that looks Slavic – yznvenskya – in the first couple of lines of a post. Update: Looks like it took less than 16 minutes to show up.