Author Archives: Olle Jonsson
Visited a gamefest: Nordic Game Jam 2007
Copy-party (or less aggressively, and perhaps more descriptively “demo-party”), that was the name of a weekend of mildly Dionysian digital festival here in Northern Europe during the late 80s and the 90s. *Update:* Danish radio DR1′s show Harddisken has Frederik … Continue reading
Rubygems now features ‘Skip this gem’ in installation
Ruby’s code-distribution mechanism Rubygems is being released in a new version real soon, and some small useful features are already in the RCs. Like “Skip this gem”, which makes it possible to skip a single update, but continue with the … Continue reading
Intro to J language
Via Dave, my favorite Dutch-speaking Australian Computer Scientist, I got wind of this fine J programming language introduction, written by our common acquaintance Cratylus. A short text, it goes directly into parsing how J looks, and then a bit about … Continue reading
Upcoming game developer conference – Nordic Game Jam
My dear L is now working at Diginet Øresund. This event might be of interest to you, dear reader, should you live in the Nordic countries: …Nordic Game Jam ’07, which is hosted by Diginet Øresund (my new job – … Continue reading
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Installing libxml-ruby for libxml2 with Ruby, on OS X
Just had an exciting package management adventure with Ruby and XML on OS X. I wanted Libxml2 wrapped in a Ruby gem. So, I ran sudo gem install libxml-ruby …and watched the software fail to build. Darn OS X not … Continue reading
Kiva microlending data point
Jonas says Kiva Works, and his first loan just got paid back. Great! (Previously, I introduced Kiva here at the blog.)
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irb with wirble
Using irb with your Ruby? Yeah, I thought so. If you want syntax coloring, ri inside irb and a shorter prompt, get Wirble: sudo gem install wirble And add an .irbrc file to your home directory, following Wirble’s advice on … Continue reading
Swedish: Som jag
“Wired är Kampratposten för såna som du.” sa Joc. Tack!
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