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Is your application a hooptie? Could it stand a ghetto-fabulous makeover of MTV-sized proportions? Chances are, even if it is washed and waxed, it could probably move on up to the big time by following a few nuggets of kind reflection.

I’ve been kicking around some thoughts and observations of various social media sites and APIs. And guess what? My eyes have seen the glory of the pimping of your app. That’s right — just follow these golden rules and you, too, can go from limp to pimp.
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I recently created a plug-in for TinyMCE, the rich text editor, to handle image uploads, creation of thumbnails, and a gallery for insertion into the TinyMCE editor.  I am super-busy — working full-time, writing a book (due out soon!), and juggling life, family, and everything-else-under-the-sun — but I am committed to writing a tutorial on how I accomplished this magical feat.  (At least I’m impressed. :-))  Anyway, check back for updates.  If I’m feeling especially magnanimous, I might even package it up for release…

I encountered an error today with a Rails Ajax drag ‘n drop and sortable list I developed for a client. Scouring the production logs, I saw:

/!\ FAILSAFE /!\  Wed Apr 16 14:19:18 -0500 2008
Status: 500 Internal Server Error
can't modify frozen string

After some Googling, I saw a couple posts in the Ruby on Rails talk Google Group. Sure enough, others were experiencing the problem, but there was no reported solution. Apparently there is even a patch in the Rails core — or at least a ticket in for the problem. But, I don’t think that is necessary, because I came up with a solution without having to patch the core. More ⊕