Monthly Archives: November 2005

Tagging easier: Firefox plugin for del.icio.us

Tagging websites [Del.icio.us](http://del.icio.us/) just got easier. Two small buttons and an extra menu in the chrome of Firefox. Get them you too, with the [del.icio.us Firefox extension](https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=1532&application=firefox).
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Fasterfox: Get performance out of Firefox

My rambling thoughts when riding in the backseat of my uncle-in-law’s car yesterday: “Wouldn’t it be good to have the Google Accelerator in a small way, like local, user-controlled, and… integrated in something I already use? The pre-fetch of webpages I am going to look at, and so on… Those can be good features. But [...]
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I like Thunderbird

[Mozilla Thunderbird](http://getthunderbird.com) is a fine email client. It recognizes dumb scams automagically for me.
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CakePHP news: Data Bindings v0.1 Example

You might know that I am involved in the [CakePHP framework](http://www.cakephp.org/) project, and I’m developing web sites with it now. On the IRC channel today, I was alerted to the existence of the Bindings sister project. Now they have an example up, for all to see. Data Bindings v0.1 Example is a piece of very easy [...]
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ActiveRecord outside of Rails: handy DB-tool

The popular web framework Ruby on Rails has a core part called ActiveRecord. That is the ORM, the object-relational mapper, which lets you use your database records “as objects” in your code. With Rails, ActiveRecord is very powerful, but it’s not that bad on its own either. Here is an example of using it as a [...]
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Testing: Ruby, Watir & more

Hi folks. I’ve been busy pushing out a little micro-small shopping cart system, but multiple projects keep dragging on, and “project hang” locks me down. I am getting things done, but there’s just much of it all. Today I needed a smarter way of walking through a series of screens to “buy a certain product” at my [...]
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Crazy operators: J, a different creature

Warning to non-geek readers: This might be the most in-bred geek-talk posting ever to be made on this blog. Bear with me. Skip this post if functional programming and “different” languages is not on your plate. The web is bigger than this blog: check *it* out instead of my ramblings. If you are interested, read [...]
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Automation of searching: Practical use of Factbites

Do you use a lot of time searching for the right information? I know I do. The meta-web-search site [FactBites](http://www.factbites.com/) can be a way of learning about stuff that you have an inkling of. Let’s take the word [monad](http://www.factbites.com/topics/Monad) and search for that: we get a rather extensive and eclectic list of stuff about different definitions [...]
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Tobias as musical star: A Shoggoth on the Roof (world premiere)

Tobias Wrigstad played Obed Marsh in the amazing Shoggoth on the Roof musical – here is the photoset: A Shoggoth on the Roof (world premiere). If you’re into H.P. Lovecraft stuff, then go look. If you know Tobias, then go look, too.
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