On my bookshelf, I noticed a VHS cassette, the Swedish comedy Tillsammans (2000) by Lukas Moodysson (director of Fucking Åmål). Great movie, but I need the shelf space. I bought it new on VHS for some reason, not owning a VHS player. Nor a TV. So, the cassette is still wrapped in plastic, never used. …
Author Archives: Olle Jonsson
Copenhagen.rb meeting notes
Update: photos by Pelle. Syndication with AtomPub, APP and GData… and Rails Olle Jonsson “explores” some things you would want to do with Atom… and how Rails enables you to do it. Update: My somewhat confused slides now available (PDF). DHH on ActiveResource …and then I got lucky, and David was able to give us …
How to support the Danish National Homeless Soccer Team
These guys need a 125 000 DKK to go to South Africa and represent Denmark. This is how to support the National Homeless Soccer Team: SMS the word BOLD to 1277, and you send them 50 DKK (exception: Tele2 customers) Send their Danish bank an amount: 9541-101 61 908 Buy a sponsorship at 20 000 …
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Book hint
I was given a book tip the other day. Pablo Henrik Llambias: *A.P.O.L.L.O.N.* Danish sci-fi. It had something to do with *T.E.R.R.A.*, a title of which I know nothing. These could be interesting to read. Perhaps.
QOTD: From India with love
From the PuneRuby forum for learning Ruby: Programmig is Art, Programmer is Artist. Code is Immortal!
Snippet: remove .svn directories
Snippet to recursively drop Subversion control of a directory. It removes the .svn directories, and their contents. find . -name “.svn” -exec rm -rf {} \; Credit: Zed Shaw, at the Mongrel mailing list. (Note to contemporary readers: Crazy old info) Oh, and if you are using Mongrel, and need help with it, there is …
Rails error messages – in your language
Jesper just put his Rails plugin up at Rubyforge: LocalizationSimplified: Rails plugin: Fast and easy localization of one-language applications. Adds UTF-8 support for Ruby + database. Modifies ActiveRecord errors + html error helpers, Date/Time helpers, locale time formats, to_currency, to_sentence Update: Jesper shows the plugin in action at his website. Take a look! So, the …
Back home!
I am back in Copenhagen, at my desk. Back? Yes, for the last 14 days, me and my wife have been in transit: Sweden, Finland, and Estonia have been well visited. I should type up a real report on this, but Everyday Life (that lovely thing) makes me focus on getting back on track again. …
More Io Learning
[Io](http://www.iolanguage.com/)’s very self-documenting, at least when it comes to “what parameters does this and that take?” This is a little walk-through that gets you up and running in the interpreter. Get a binary from the downlaods page, and then come back here. There is a docs slot — with some text about what the method …
bash functions example
Bradley Taylor (of [Railsmachine](http://railsmachine.com/) hosting fame) said this on [the excellent Mongrel mailing list](http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/mongrel-users): “Just use these bash functions and put them in your .bashrc:” cluster\_restart () { mongrel\_rails cluster::restart -C /etc/ mongrel\_cluster/$1.yml; } cluster\_start () { mongrel\_rails cluster::start -C /etc/ mongrel\_cluster/$1.yml; } cluster\_stop () { mongrel\_rails cluster::stop -C /etc/mongrel\_cluster/$1.yml; } usage: $ cluster_start fluxura …