Tag: philanthropy
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TOMS Shoes
I recently won one of a thousand pairs of TOMS shoes courtesy of a joint promotion in conjunction with Gowalla and AT&T to celebrate TOMS 1 millionth “shoe drop”. (It’s basically like the “One Laptop Per Child” program, but for shoes.) From the TOMS website: “TOMS Shoes was founded on a simple premise: With every…
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Everyone Should Grow Up Poor
There are only two relatives I’ve ever known to whom I’ve felt a strong biological connection. One of them died last month. This is a tribute to her… I spent the majority of my early childhood growing up with my mother in a single-room add-on attached to the side of my grandmothers house in a…
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Rails 2.0: Gmail SMTP With ActionMailer
Marc just checked in a nifty little Rails 2.0 plugin to the OpenRain public subversion repository which encapsulates the voodoo required to use a Gmail SMTP server with an otherwise ordinary ActionMailer configuration. Gmail requires TLS security, which is why this is useful. Grab the plugin for your Gmail-mooching Rails 2.0 site, here. Note: I…