Against entropy.
The popular web framework Ruby on Rails has a core part called ActiveRecord. That is the ORM, the object-relational mapper, which lets you use your database records “as objects” in your code. With Rails, ActiveRecord is very powerful, but it’s not that bad on its own either. Here is an example of using it as …
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Hi folks. I’ve been busy pushing out a little micro-small shopping cart system, but multiple projects keep dragging on, and “project hang” locks me down. I am getting things done, but there’s just much of it all. Today I needed a smarter way of walking through a series of screens to “buy a certain product” …
Warning to non-geek readers: This might be the most in-bred geek-talk posting ever to be made on this blog. Bear with me. Skip this post if functional programming and “different” languages is not on your plate. The web is bigger than this blog: check *it* out instead of my ramblings. If you are interested, read …
Do you use a lot of time searching for the right information? I know I do. The meta-web-search site [FactBites](http://www.factbites.com/) can be a way of learning about stuff that you have an inkling of. Let’s take the word [monad](http://www.factbites.com/topics/Monad) and search for that: we get a rather extensive and eclectic list of stuff about different …
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Tobias Wrigstad played Obed Marsh in the amazing Shoggoth on the Roof musical – here is the photoset: A Shoggoth on the Roof (world premiere). If you’re into H.P. Lovecraft stuff, then go look. If you know Tobias, then go look, too.
Tobin, this one’s for you: Automated testing, with IE for .NET. Danish consultancy BestBrains have released IETest, > a .NET library for testing web sites through Microsoft Internet Explorer. It enables you to automate Internet Explorer to the point where you can perform automated testing without any human attention required.
My neigbour, the Ruby hacker [Sean Treadway](http://sean.treadway.info) waves “Goodbye MSFT”, in a fine posting about how That Big Windows Company is making it hard to be a programmer for their platform: > Well, I among many others have found another way, develop applications on an understandable platform. For me “understandable†means “openâ€. “Open Source†means …
[Cissi](http://www.bloglines.com/blog/cisslo) in Malmö, Sweden, is also having [bread thoughts](http://www.bloglines.com/blog/cisslo?id=26): > […] I cut out the soft bread from my diet, I might get a nice loaf once in a while but never again in a plastic bag from one of the commercial bakeries. I just realized how much they suck. And I will start making …
[Dropload](http://www.dropload.com) is one of those services that are needed. Badly. I think this baby could be put to some good use. Right, Dad? This is the full text of their service description: > Dropload is a place for you to drop your files off and have them picked up by someone else at a later …
Me and Peter Rukavina have been talking about bread for a while. The kind you bake yourself. A blogger in Portugal, who I met at Reboot7 writes a piece on the business viability of an “Emory’s” in his city: A bakery in Lisbon: business views on a opportunity. These points might be food for thought …