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 VHS player. Nor a TV. So, the cassette is still wrapped in plastic, never used. If [...]
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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 change in behaviour. Instead of using #io{...} to interpolate your code, you now use #{...}. As well, instead of [...]
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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, I listed only name and id fields of a Model, and to restrict the findAll() to [...]
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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). DHH on ActiveResource …and then I got lucky, and David was able to give us “how to do all this [...]
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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 train station. David did a good job of telling an understandable story about Ruby on [...]
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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. And then, prints the result. My PHP take on this looks klutzy. But the request gets [...]
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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 meet up and talk shop. And, as a Copenhagener, I don’t know very much about that. [...]
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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) Send their Danish bank an amount: 9541-101 61 908 Buy a sponsorship at 20 000 DKK and [...]
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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]
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