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Ever since I bought my MacBook and made the switch to OSX, I have found the Stickies app to be quite useful. Even more useful would be a web based app that I could access from anywhere. Today I have found it. Save a tree and your desk.
Stikis

Last week I noticed that every time I tried to compose an email in Gmail, Firefox would have a hard crash. I figured it was something in the javascript and left Gmail alone for a few days since it is Beta. This week I decided to try it again and I experienced the same behavior. In an effort to debug this problem I tried Gmail in all the browsers that I had installed. I had the same crash in Camino and Opera but it worked fine in Safari. After much poking around I found that my Palatino font was corrupted. After replacing the font everything was fine.

I decided to play around with reducing page weight today. I wrote this script to strip out new lines and whitespace. There wasn't a huge amount of difference in the individual file sizes but when you subtract 8-10k per file from the total document weight the difference is noticeable.

download shrinker.rb

Rails page caching is without a doubt the best way to speed up your application and reduce the server load. I decided to cache some XML I was dumping out for a web service and realized that Rails will cache the document as HTML. As long as the controller handles nothing but xml you can do the following as a work-around:

01010111011001010010000001000010011101 01011010010110110001100100001000000101 01110110010101100010001000000101001101 10100101110100011001010111001110011001