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Using photos of oft-snapped subjects (like Notre Dame) scraped from around the Web, Photosynth creates breathtaking multidimensional spaces with zoom and navigation features that outstrip all expectation. Its architect, Blaise Aguera y Arcas, shows it off in this standing-ovation demo. Curious about that speck in corner? Dive into a freefall and watch as the speck becomes a gargoyle. With an unpleasant grimace. And an ant-sized chip in its lower left molar. “Perhaps the most amazing demo I’ve seen this year,” wrote Ethan Zuckerman, after TED2007. Indeed, Photosynth might utterly transform the way we manipulate and experience digital images.

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Well, there seem to exist numerous cheat sheets for Rails and other stuff out there, yet none for Rdoc. The official Rdoc Documentation is nice and complete, but sometimes it’s handy to have something you can print out on one page and quickly glance over.

I know that this nuisance hindered me to write extensive documentation for my current project so I decided to create a cheat sheet myself in the hope to encourange other newcomers to Ruby and/or Rails to develop a habit of writing good documentation.

»Download Rdoc Cheat Sheet

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