Support open standards in Europe. Go and sign the petition. I did, and wrote this 300 chars comment: Open standards enable as many creators as possible to invent around the standards-conforming documents and resources. EU citizens have many to-be-invented systems in their minds — open standards speed up their invention. Also, with readable documents to …
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Carpentering handyman in Malmö area needed
Having assembled two-thirds of the A-Team that will build a hyperfunctional kitchen in our Malmö apartment, me and Luisa are now looking for a carpenter. Luisa will be the project manager, leading and supervising the progress on-site. Kirsten will be the AutoCADing architect, and also function as technical advisor. Ideally, among the people we know …
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A good book
Today I got “Fascicle 1” of Don Knuth’s 1999 reworking of his classic 1960s work The Art of Computer Programming. Great book. No fuss, just stuff. I might write more about that here, if I keep reading it. It’s one of those books that are an experience to go through. Like GEB. Knuth explains how …
IoPython, raw but cool
I nosed around in Io’s “addons” folder, which you also can pull from the Git repository, see the Io homepage. Update: of course, this was reported when it was fresh, with nice examples, too: pinupgeek’s blog is full of Io goodness. (Thanks, trevor!) While nosing, I met the Python module, which lets you run Python …
Copenhagen.rb meetup: Puppet and fringe activity
Juri presented the amazing Puppet framework for controlling servers. He controls about 20 servers with it. Think of Puppet’s files as “setup Rakefiles for servers” which is version-controlled, monitored, and written in a very terse DSL. Seems slick. Juri might publish his nice slides, who knows. While he was presenting, me and Lars SG were …
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Toward new futures!
Fijord Originally uploaded by oc girl. Polar Rose made a change in direction, and dissolved their Ruby on Rails team, of which I was a member. So, for all you heads out there, I am available for work. And, my current focus is JavaScript. And more of everything, as usual. (The guys at P.R. have …
DRY database.yml, old saw
See this Pastie, which makes use of File.socket?, Enumerable‘s amazing detect and an ERb variable. On the #rubyonrails.se IRC channel, simmel made the recipe better by adding the check for File.socket?, instead of File.exists?. (File.socket? will follow symbolic links, as you can see in the pasted code.) A recipe variation, you might call it.
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 Berg Olsen’s radio programme about NGJ07. FBO had a tape recorder with him, and made …
readrails alias to open Textmate with the Rails gems source code
Now that Rails 1.2 is out, and you switched to using the gems instead of Edge, you might find yourself having “a hard time” searching the Rails source code. Enter: a Bash alias to opening the Rails source in Textmate. # readrails – an alias to open Textmate with the Rails source from Gems # …
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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 rest of the set of updates for your gems. Here is a demonstration of just …
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