Monthly Archives: August 2007
Munge Address Book with RubyOSA
require “rubygems” require ‘rbosa’ require “fastercsv” abook = OSA.app(‘Address Book’) folks = [] abook.people.each do |guy| folks.push([ guy.first_name, guy.last_name, guy.emails.map { |e| e.value }.join(';')].to_csv ) end puts folks
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A locksmith hint from Malmö
Life hint: Do not insert the wrong key in the lock, you could fiddle the tumblers of the lock, so that the lock no longer fits your key. Life hint for Swedes: hitta.se search for “låssmed” and a location like … Continue reading
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Another Ruby conference
The Ruby folks in Texas know how to please a soft-heart like me: This is a non-profit conference. The organizers are not paid and any profits will be used for future conferences. Also, the financial books are open and we … Continue reading
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Moved to Malmö
Sweden’s third-largest town (270 000 inhabitants in the City, 600 000+ in the metro area) was initially called Malmhaugen (“Gravel heap”) – Wikipedia told me, so it’s true. Now, the name of the town is Malmö. And it is my … Continue reading
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Ruby’s most important library in dark waters: Trouble, opportunity
Trans is thinking of forking dormant project ruby-libxml. You a C hacker with XML and Ruby love? Join his crusade to save the libxml bindings. Seriously.
Annals of HTTP headers
I got a weird header from my local Apache 2.2.4 today. X-Pad: avoid browser bug These guys could tell me what it was: In six cases the HTTP message “X-Pad: avoid browser bug” was sent. This was an unannounced change … Continue reading
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