Monthly Archives: September 2006
Give-away: Tillsammans on VHS
On my bookshelf, I noticed a VHS cassette, the Swedish comedy Tillsammans (2000) by Lukas Moodysson (director of Fucking Åmål). Great movie, but I need the shelf space. I bought it new on VHS for some reason, not owning a … Continue reading
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Io gets Ruby-style string interpolation
This is nice for people who come to Io from Ruby: Io, the language, now has… a C implementation of interpolate (by trevor with help from jer) Just to give people a heads-up on this point. There is a slight … Continue reading
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CakePHP: grab only the data you need
When dealing with an abstraction that outputs dynamic SQL “behind your back”, it’s often easy to forget that some of the queries are… too greedy and grab unneeded data. Here is how to ask for less data, using CakePHP. Today, … Continue reading
Copenhagen.rb meeting notes
Update: photos by Pelle. Syndication with AtomPub, APP and GData… and Rails Olle Jonsson “explores” some things you would want to do with Atom… and how Rails enables you to do it. Update: My somewhat confused slides now available (PDF). … Continue reading
Reading Ruby on Rails
Things I want to do, in Ruby-land: Read Ruby’s source code. (Self-study guide here) Read Ruby on Rails. You have the sources on your computer, don’t you? Follow Rails HEAD (RSS of changesets)
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David Black on Ruby and Rails, in Malmo: a post-game
I will try to summarize my Malmo experience in the company of 20 new and old Railsers and presenter David Black. Our kind host Polar Rose had got a very central location for the event, a short hike from the … Continue reading
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Calling an XML-RPC method (PHP, Ruby)
Calling web services. Great fun when it works. Thanks to XML-RPC’s simplicity, it’s quite easy to cobble together a working client. Here is me using the Technorati “ping” service, which tells them about the Copenhagen Ruby Brigade’s weblog being updated. … Continue reading
List of local geek communities (work-in-progress)
I talked with a local PHP developer today, who’d seen my blog, and we talked some CakePHP, frameworks, servers, the general state of scripting languages, and so forth. And then we came to the subject of local communities, where developers … Continue reading
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How to support the Danish National Homeless Soccer Team
These guys need a 125 000 DKK to go to South Africa and represent Denmark. This is how to support the National Homeless Soccer Team: SMS the word BOLD to 1277, and you send them 50 DKK (exception: Tele2 customers) … Continue reading
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Rails talk, free: David A. Black to Malmoe, Sweden
Get your Ruby butt to Malmo, Sweden! Workshop with David Black at kind host Polar Rose (a funky image search startup business). Time: Sunday, September 17 from 10:00-18:00, and is free to attend. Map on above link. [tags]rails,rubyonrails,event[/tags]