Last night, a Ruby club meet, which was interesting, but the feeling I got was “you hadda have been at RailsConf”. And I wasn’t, so bummer.

Informal atmosphere allows one to play with one’s laptop while others are reminiscing:

ActiveWarehouse a data warehousing application. Could be very interesting. Funny: me and Isak had said “Let’s analyze our SVN logs, that a nice chunky dataset.” He showed his first steps, grabbing the XML output Subversion can report about its logs. They were rich enough to map to… a data warehouse.

And, as it ironically turns out, the seminal example for ActiveWarehouse is activewarehouse-example-with-rails-svn-logs. Going to play with this, when I get some time.

When I was not listening, I was struggling to get offline browser tests running with Crosscheck, which packages up IE6 and Firefox (1.5 and the older 1.0):

It’s just a JAR, so you run it on a folder with tests:

java -jar ~/Desktop/crosscheck-0.2.1.tar/crosscheck.jar \\
-hosts=moz-1.8:ie-6 \\
tests/eosweb/js/

I want to hook this into our Bitten installation.

Super-secret note, only for you: I also made a note about the Oresund Web Hacking club, which only exists on Facebook (as a local group), so befriend me there, or search for the above name. Something more public will get created.