Monthly Archives: October 2006

Swedish: Som jag

“Wired är Kampratposten för såna som du.” sa Joc. Tack!

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My Dashboard widget stopped working

A while ago me and my wife created a simple Dashboard widget that displayed our current amount of bonus accrued at the foodstore “club” we’re in. Since the website was just using a form which accepted member ID and PIN … Continue reading

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Go read this Intro to Io

If you are interested in the Io language, go read Getting to know Io, by Bruce. He is a Rails programmer who’s also an “Io tourist”, and this gentle intro to how Io works is fine for whetting your appetite. … Continue reading

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BarCamp here, in Copenhagen

On **17 november** at 17:00 [BarCamp Copenhagen](http://barcamp.org/BarCampCopenhagen) begins. What’s that? Let me quote [barcamp.org](http://barcamp.org/): > BarCamp is an “ad-hoc” gathering born from the desire of people to share and learn in an open environment. The activity is very simple: > … Continue reading

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Delicious integrates with many services

IMG_1224 Originally uploaded by joshua. The bookmarking service Del.icio.us has done quite a few “incremental changes” since I started using it. As has photo service Flickr. Here are two very small, but context-adding betterments that I like a lot. Flickr’s … Continue reading

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Selenium on Rails: extra-special testing tool

When Obie F. was in town, he ended his talk by showing a final, extra-special productivity-boosting developer tool: Selenium on Rails. As it happens, it is our own Jonas “Danger Bay” Bengtsson who created that Rails plugin, on top of … Continue reading

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Io on OS X: Get a fixed libsgml

libsgml.zip is the libsgml library with a slightly modified build sequence, to accomodate the Mac OS X need for .dylib instead of .so files. I learnt a bit on making Makefile.in and configure.in do my bidding, but don’t do this … Continue reading

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Method Resolution Order in Io

Prunedtree asked the Io channel at Freenode: “How does Io avoid diamonds and cycling when finding methods in protos? Is there code to resolve loops?” Here is the answer.

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Ruby rockstars in Copenhagen, again

Cph.rb had one more visiting rockstar. Thanks for coming, folks, and thanks for presenting, Obie! Update: Jesper‘s photos. We did the most of Kassen as an impromptu conference space. There were a large table of guys from Cph.rb, and I … Continue reading

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Began running

Just found an old unblogged note from August 27: Today I went for a run in Fælledparken, with my training buddy, PM. This is a completely new experience for me: sports that I have elected to perform myself. I’m beat! … Continue reading

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