Malmö tech city

A summer’s rainy morning in Malmö. I’ve just hopped off the morning train from Copenhagen, clutching a crumpled paper that I just finished. I got wind of it through the NoSQL Summer reading club’s Malmö instance. On the way into the office, I saw my FOSS friend T, waiting for a car. Handing him the …

Upcoming meetup poster: active redesigning and customizing

Indulge me. I allowed myself to make a little poster. Öresund JavaScript Meetup #10 on June 14, in Malmö, at Hypergene’s offices. I guess there are a couple of things wrong with it. The date and time are lacking. Monday June 14. At 19.00. The URL says those things. (But people looking at a poster …

Outsider architects

Watts Towers, (yes, that Watts) built by an Italian immigrant (to the USA). In Europe, same weirdness appears: 1879 – 1912 33 years of struggle 10 000 days 93 000 hours Ferdinand Cheval was a French postman, who built “Le Palais Idéal” by working in his spare time. Here’s a Wikipedia picture: Here is a …

Penrose: end-of-level math boss, or raving weirdo?

Roger Penrose, math rockstar, who later in life began to write longer and longer works. In new areas. Ever read any of his stuff? I never did. I did read Neal Stephenson’s Anathem, and the plot contains tiling problems, quite clearly modeled on the idea of Penrose being a bad-ass math person. Anathem‘s the kind …

Etching nametags, collection of resources

Looking around for etching stuff. People with machines have a lack of taste. Explanation of what I want to do. Make signs, one for each engineer. I admire his technical skill Envious of these machines a Polish website on laminates have pictures. They mention Rowmark (“Great people, great plastic”. Amazing.) Do you have any thoughts …

Change ID of a Component in ExtJS

ExtJS: The Component manager instance’s all collection does not let you change an ID of a component. Let’s say… you wanted to, anyway. Add this: Ext.ComponentMgr.all.changeKey = function(oldkey, newkey) { var comp = this.map[oldkey]; var index = this.indexOfKey(oldkey); this.keys[index] = newkey; this.map[newkey] = comp; delete this.map[oldkey]; }; Is there anything really wrong with this approach?