More groups of people who want to fiddle with opensource software: Hackaton.se. They have an event in Malmö, at a school, 23-25 november. Just to let you know, so you can spread the word. I’ll write more when I know more. Update! An attentive reader, also being the organizer of the upcoming event emailed me, …
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Web hacking Øresund, a local computer get-together
Folks, I live in Malmö, Sweden. Update: Web Hacking Oresund web page. And I like hanging out, making stuff. So, I set up a Facebook group called “Web Hacking Øresund”. (yeah, yeah, silo-of-content, and all, I’ll go and set up an Upcoming Event for it, instead). The concept: meet up, checking out the stuff you’ve …
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Crosscheck wheel spin
At the last meeting with Copenhagen.rb, I said I’d test out Crosscheck – a JavaScript testing framework, suited for continuous integration or command-line testing. I had just tried getting it to run, following the slightly outdated Add Event tutorial. At last I got it to work, but I had to actually read the text, not …
Copenhagen.rb: September meetup, minor review and or notes
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 …
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Annals of IKEA usage
If you live close to an IKEA, do this: ask for a membership card in “IKEA Family” when at the checkout. Next time you get to the place on a weekday evening, enjoy a free coffee. And, try to stay away from that place on weekends, anyway.
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
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 “lÃ¥ssmed” and a location like “Malmö,” and you can also see the many locksmiths near my home. Abba LÃ¥s-specialisten was …
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 …
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. …
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.