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 “Malmö,” and you can also see the many locksmiths near my home. Abba Lås-specialisten was first [...]
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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 will be publishing payables and receivables. The purpose of this is to help other conference planners and to assure [...]
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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 town. And, Luisa’s. My address is Löjtnantsgatan 8B, 21150 Malmö, so update your address containers. The phone [...]
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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.
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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 to Apache version 1.2b9 which provided a fix for a bug in Netscape versions 2.x, 3.x and 4.0b2. Who [...]
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