Surfing the tides of Ruby on Rails

I'm doing some Ruby on Rails self education and can't help but find other cool links while I'm surfing, I'll publish them here as I go, hopefully in somekind of order that makes sense.

I thought this was quite fun, ravaging web robots "exploiting" security holes in web applications and sabotaging our precious content:
http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2005/05/google_web_acce_1.html

This page is linked from the above page but it deserves some extra highlightning, it's basically about the same thing:
http://simon.incutio.com/archive/2005/05/06/bad

I stumbled upon this blog which has some quite hilarious posts, like: Porn-related crashes

One thing leads to another, here is a PHP security guide, haven't looked at it yet but I think it might be useful when building web sites in other languages too.

Web security articles:

• Foiling Cross-Site Attacks


• GET Considered Harmful Sometimes


• Securing Forms with Post is not Enough

About blog spam and how to get rid of it:

• More Comment SpamThe discussion in the comments of this blog entry is quite interesting.


• Blog Comment Spam on the Rise


• Slashdot post. Sweet!


• Private citizen. - This is too good to be true.

This site seems interesting, lot of fun reading and quite an interesting person behind the text.

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Weeee! Now I'm back at where I stopped yesterday. It's taken med approximately 3 hours. Recursive reading is quite overrated.

Is MVC for the web?
MVC and web apps: oil and water

A gaming gaming community
Kongregate Not finished though, quite a shame.

Now, back to Ruby on Rails

The discussion about CRUD and stuff:

• RailsConf: Create, Read, Update, Delete: Normalize


• Discovering a world of resources


• CRUDdy searches


• CRUDdy searches - More of the searchy stuff.


• Representational state transfer is something different than CRUST but not completely and it seems like it's not MVC.


• Making your controllers even smaller

I don't know what assert_pedantic_semantic_thing does but it seems cool.

Ruby on Rails podcasts
Rub on Rails forum
Learn to code
Ruby on Rails api
Ruby doc
Ruby tutorials
Rubyinside - A very nice blog about Ruby and Rails.
Something about writing Reddit in a short time using Rails
A nice blog about ruby and rails and stuff
Road to Ruby enlightenment <-- Check that out!!! RubyGarden
Programming Ruby - The Pragmatic Programmer's Guide
A list of Ruby and rails related blogs
Refactoring a valid test
Beginning relationships
Rail snippets
Nubyonrails
Beast - Forum
Ruby on nails scratching a chalkboard
Gluttonous
Rails sessions
Ruby on Rails podcasts

Django seems cool too, written in and for Python, I will check that out after playing with some Rails.

A friend sent me this about pirates.