Monthly Archives: August 2006

Book hint

By Olle Jonsson | Published: 2006-08-28
I was given a book tip the other day. Pablo Henrik Llambias: *A.P.O.L.L.O.N.* Danish sci-fi. It had something to do with *T.E.R.R.A.*, a title of which I know nothing. These could be interesting to read. Perhaps.
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QOTD: From India with love

By Olle Jonsson | Published: 2006-08-27
From the PuneRuby forum for learning Ruby: Programmig is Art, Programmer is Artist. Code is Immortal!
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Snippet: remove .svn directories

By Olle Jonsson | Published: 2006-08-27
Snippet to recursively drop Subversion control of a directory. It removes the .svn directories, and their contents. find . -name ".svn" -exec rm -rf {} \; Credit: Zed Shaw, at the Mongrel mailing list. (Note to contemporary readers: Crazy old info) Oh, and if you are using Mongrel, and need help with it, there is a [...]
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Rails error messages – in your language

By Olle Jonsson | Published: 2006-08-21
Jesper just put his Rails plugin up at Rubyforge: LocalizationSimplified: Rails plugin: Fast and easy localization of one-language applications. Adds UTF-8 support for Ruby + database. Modifies ActiveRecord errors + html error helpers, Date/Time helpers, locale time formats, to_currency, to_sentence Update: Jesper shows the plugin in action at his website. Take a look! So, the plugin tries to [...]
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Back home!

By Olle Jonsson | Published: 2006-08-21
I am back in Copenhagen, at my desk. Back? Yes, for the last 14 days, me and my wife have been in transit: Sweden, Finland, and Estonia have been well visited. I should type up a real report on this, but Everyday Life (that lovely thing) makes me focus on getting back on track again. This is a [...]
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Io: setting the interactive prompt

By olleolleolle | Published: 2006-08-2
shevegen is it possible to modify the return token '==>' ? I'd like it to bear this instead '# =>' or '# ==>' bolsen maybe look at the CLI object? bolsen CLI outPrompt Look at that! You could edit your interactive Io prompt, to make it look like Ruby’s irb, [...]
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More Io Learning

By Olle Jonsson | Published: 2006-08-1
[Io](http://www.iolanguage.com/)’s very self-documenting, at least when it comes to “what parameters does this and that take?” This is a little walk-through that gets you up and running in the interpreter. Get a binary from the downlaods page, and then come back here. There is a docs slot — with some text about what the method [...]
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