Monthly Archives: February 2006

Mongrel: funky server

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The [Mongrel](http://rubyforge.org/projects/mongrel/) web server project, in Ruby, by Zed Shaw, is taking shape. With some help from Luis Lavena, Zed’s making his lovely Mongrel run on win32, as a Windows service. The last mail I read at the mongrel-users mailing list had Zed oohing and aahing over the Ruby win32 library:

Otherwise it’s incredibly cool. It’s sad to say that Mongrel will soon have better win32 support than Unix.

Why [writes on Mongrel](http://redhanded.hobix.com/inspect/mongrelSGoingToKillWebrickGiveItAMonth.html), about an earlier release.

Bonus link: The [win32 category](http://raa.ruby-lang.org/cat.rhtml?category_major=Library;category_minor=Win32) at [RAA](http://raa.ruby-lang.org/), the Ruby Application Archive. And the [win32-service](http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/win32-service/) package, which lets you control Windows services, too.

How to get a dentist in Sweden

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In Denmark, dentistry is prohibitively expensive. People go to Sweden to fix their teeth. First, you need a good one to go to. Here is the guy I got warmly recommended: Mikael, at Citytandläkarna. They do not have a website, but they offer prices at roughly half of the estimate I got in Copenhagen. (Also, I compare with a cheap estimate from a recommended Copenhagen dentist, so this is as low as Copenhagen dentists go.)

Take Bus 999, switch to local bus 35 at Södervärn station in Malmö. Get off at Rosengård. Ascend stairs to the “stores level”. Pass City-grossen’s house, pass Folktandvården, and when you see Försäkringskassan you’re almost there: facing it is Citytandläkarna, your destination.

And here is [a map](http://hitta.se/ViewDetailsPink.aspx?Vkiid=%2foFf4j8Kby27M33Vr4U2FA%3d%3d&Vkid=8260955&SearchType=4&UCSB%3aWflWhite=1a1b&UCSB%3aWflPink=4a&UCSB%3aTextBoxWho=Citytandl%e4karna&UCSB%3aTextBoxWhere=malm%f6).

Reach them at their email address: intersale at spray.se. Or, just call them up +46 40 21 27 10.

When I called, this morning, to get an appointment, I got to talk to Mikael, the guy who will fix my teeth, directly. Small business, good service.

Denmark is Dead: Great programmer booted out of the country

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My neighbour Sean Treadway today posted a sad post – he is getting kicked out of the country:

> So that’s all folks Denmark has evaluated that my contribution to the
country through my freelance work is not of significant value.

This is patently horrible. On so many levels. Sean’s one of the really great minds I have met here in Denmark. He’s contributed greatly to the local and global Open Source community, and to the local freelancer environment.

If not even this guy can start a business in Denmark, then who can? Oh, right, me: and the only thing I have got going for me is that I’m an EU citizen.

These are the ill effects of an immigration policy dictated by backwater opportunists of the bleakest kind. This is what the government’s association with Dansk Folkeparti means in practice.

It’s good to know that the Berlin-based effort [Plazes](http://www.plazes.com) will have one razor-sharp mind more to refine their geo-tagging application. I have an informed hunch that Sean will like Berlin, but that’s cold comfort when I have to keep living in a country run like this.

Ruby meetup: A new wiki

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Albert set up an Instiki [wiki for the upcoming Ruby meetings](http://meetup.delamednoll.se/): and you can also sign up there, to add more glitz to the meeting.

And then that got old, and “peterj” started a [Rails.se](http://www.rails.se) wiki, with the same kind of wiki software. We promptly moved our SSRUG, Skåne-Sjælland Ruby User Group, to that wiki.

And, we have a location, a time, and a group to be there, for the first meetup.

Get the details at [SSRUG's page](http://rails.se/rails/show/Skhttp://rails.se/rails/show/RUG).

Railsers for beer

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[Albert](http://albert.delamednoll.se/), of the South Swedish Rails community, noted he’d be travelling to talk Ruby on Rails, and that secretly he [wished for a community nearby](http://albert.delamednoll.se/articles/2006/01/11/travelling-in-the-name-of-rails).

Why the heck not.

This is an open invite for you, my buddies, who are using Ruby on Rails (for anything) to come have a sit-down with other Rails users.

Albert suggests Copenhagen, Malmö or Lund as locations for the meetup. What’s best for you?

(I could muster two or three friends, as well.)

FYI, there’s a [wiki page on Ruby User Groups](http://rubygarden.org/ruby?RubyUserGroups), as well, at [RubyGarden](http://rubygarden.org/). The [Danish Group](http://rubygarden.org/ruby?DanishGroup) has not seen a lot of activity. Seems like it needs someone with initiative. That might be us, dear reader.

**Update**: [Danish Group](http://rubygarden.org/ruby?DanishGroup) page now updated with a pointer here.

Swedes might also be interested in signing up for [the Rails.se mailing list](http://lists.rails.se/mailman/listinfo/rails).

(I’m setting comments here to unmoderated, for faster feedback.)

[Rubyholic](http://www.rubyholic.com/) is a groups locator for Ruby folks, as well.