Weaving at home Originally uploaded by olleolleolle This picture is now a part of a huge collection of images of looms. I just love the Internet for that.
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Using find
When not using ack, my favorite search tool, you can still exclude SVN folders. Here is an example of me looking for a file: $ find . -not \( -name .svn -prune \) -name ‘EosController*’ ./web/models/controllers/EosController.php ./web/models/controllers/EosControllerTest.php This mode of expression might be better for your scripting needs.
Contribute: Low-hanging fruit in PEAR
Here is a list of very simple bugs to fix, to make PEAR better: Deprecation bugs for PEAR code. I fixed two. The list was a wee bit shorter when I reloaded its tab. How many of these bugs remain?
Workstyle: Add vendor tests before using new library code
Hello again. Here is a snag-resolving article about a maintenance problem. There should be a thick volume called “Web Maintenance Pearls”, which everyone should be forced to read. Here’s the situation: You want to throw out a dependency. It’s an older JavaScript library, and you have a replacement lined up. Some plugin for a popular …
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Thank you, MacPorts: How to add OpenSSL support to your PHP
Many interesting web APIs require SSL, for instance Google’s GData API. This adds OpenSSL support to your MacPorts-installed PHP, so that you can use the “ssl” transport layer: sudo port install php5-openssl Done. Thanks, jmr_mp in the MacPorts IRC channel, for telling me about the existence of this short and neat patch-applying port, so that …
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Discourse
How to be immortal: become a word. Maes-Garreau Law. Via article about AI.
Random ruleset: Guidelines for my bank’s credit card image customization
I’m a sucker for customization. Here’s a random thing. My bank’s rules for VISA card image settings: Riktlinjer och regler för användning av egen bild: Bilden fÃ¥r inte kränka annans upphovsrätt, rätt till varumärke eller annan liknande rättighet och ska följa god sed. Detta innebär att bl a följande regler mÃ¥ste följas för att en …
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NoSQL meeting report
So I went to a NoSQLSummer meeting yesterday night. Upon entering the deathly empty MINC complex, I thought “startups never sleep?”, but I found most of Neo’s staff in a cosy war-room called “Innovation Lab”. No coffee, but soda bottles. Copies of the paper were spread around the large table. We met. We hung out. …
A regular Tuesday at the Forsk
Tuesday Forsk yesterday, it was awesome. Just great. People were their normal selves, but everyone just had that extra edge of greatness that night. It begun with a minor planning meeting in one corner. Pragmatic. Anna F came by and planned her workshop. StG had worked on his Rbox project, and murmured “Do you want …
Someone else’s presentation which has Robots in there
Ah! Via the Umeå design school blog, I found this nice presentation which has robot pictures in it. The Human Interface View more presentations from Christopher Fahey.