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Nice post Jeff. I'm a twins+singleton Dad. Yes, I started with twins. All boys. My youngest is 5. So, he's given me the first 5 years back.
We have friends with girls. You'll be amazed at how much faster they develop.
Commented Oct 24, 2011 on On Parenthood at Coding Horror
On Parenthood
Our son was born March 12th, 2009. He's a little over two and a half years old. Now, I am the wussiest wuss to ever wuss up the joint, so take everything I'm about to say with a grain of salt – but choosing to become a parent is the hardest thing I have ever done. By far. Everything else pales ...
So, the error in the "code", is the lack of a queuing mechanism. Perhaps Ruby's Net::SMTP does this, but somehow I doubt it. The proper way to do this is to submit the message to a local queue on the machine. That machine then relays the message through a smart host, which has the proper configurations outlined by Jeff.
Commented Apr 22, 2010 on So You'd Like to Send Some Email (Through Code) at Coding Horror
So You'd Like to Send Some Email (Through Code)
I have what I would charitably describe as a hate-hate relationship with email. I desperately try to avoid sending email, not just for myself, but also in the code I write. Despite my misgivings, email is the cockroach of communication mediums: you just can't kill it. Email is the one method o...
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