This is during the floor mat installation.
So, we are very near to completion of this very nice new room.
Next up is adding smart furniture and good storage.
Take note: This floor can be cleaned.
Floor builders at Forskningsavdelningen
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Painting walls at Forskningsavdelningen
We have new digs, and they are becoming so grand and beautiful. I just want to share images with you.
In this image, you can see that there is no floor.
That is now no longer the case.
Web tools link dump from last night
Yesterday, at Forskningsavdelningen (geeking every Tuesday night!) we had a blazingly fast run-through of web tools. This link-dump will probably be amended.
I had time to set up a Redis, and do a test run with Rediska – a PHP interface to Redis. It worked, and it’s in PHP. I was more impressed with the redis-cli experience. There are many atomic commands in Redis, and the datatypes are quite helpful.
We spent some time walking through a BDD tool for async web framework Node.js: VowsJS. When that was done, we looked at kyuri, the library that can transform a Cucumber feature spec into a skeleton VowsJS “vow”. kyuri was used for prenup, a web tool to create Cucumber specs for Node.js projects. prenup was quite alpha, but we sympathized with the concept.
Joel pointed to PHP-based web frameworks “like Sinatra“, and found a few that he rejected. The last man standing was named GluePHP. He can list his gripes with all the others. We looked at Troels’ Konstrukt, as well, and it got good reactions. It’s good, but it’s nothing like Sinatra.
Flask is a web microframework which was used at Forskningsavdelningen last night. “I don’t know how to use this, so let’s begin.” And we begun, and had a website up and running pretty soon. A roadblock in the form of “convert a regular font file to a PIL-font format” appeared, and a hell-of-Portfiles ensued. I should start using Homebrew…
Oskar had referenced Windows hacker Scott Hanselman, and we praised his article on changing default web browser in Visual Studio for it’s complete hacker attitude. Here is a link to his PowerShell category on his blog.
Oh, Hanselman lists Windows tools he uses.
Other stuff, that should be mentioned, so as not to forget:
Whiskey Disk is embarrasingly fast deployments – their videos, presentations, etc, are very convincing, and “keep it easy.” Someone who takes Capistrano down a notch for “not being simple enough” should be listened to. The system seems quite capable.
Inspiration: This morning I saw that some Drupal folks were using a Phing task to automate fetching and building a customized version of Drupal, for their deployment. They included two useful tasks: help and explain, where help informed about the available options, and explain printed all the variables that would be used when running a phing build. Also, they informed the user of how to change those variables right on the commandline, and gave the tip that they should run the explain task with changed command-line settings. This would verify that Phing had understood the user’s invocation correctly.
Weaving at home
This picture is now a part of a huge collection of images of looms. I just love the Internet for that.
A regular Tuesday at the Forsk
Tuesday Forsk yesterday, it was awesome.
Just great. People were their normal selves, but everyone just had that extra edge of greatness that night.
It begun with a minor planning meeting in one corner. Pragmatic. Anna F came by and planned her workshop.
StG had worked on his Rbox project, and murmured “Do you want to help program this beast?” and muttered something about the eZ80 programming environment. Suddenly, there’s a noise “yeah, it’s the MOD player I built in” and later there were graphics. “It works!” he cried, at one point, and everybody rushed to, to see the greatness. There was greatness. I won’t spoil the greatness, you can witness it at Hacknight this Saturday.
In one corner, a PHP discussion group formed, as I had installed crisis mapping software Ushahidi — which is written in PHP. “Why do they tell me to program everything in Java?” a confused PHP user asked me. I answered. “What’s a class, really?” someone else asked. I answered. “Does PHP have to be so bad?” a third person asked, and me and qzio answered, by displaying how magic methods __call, __set and __get work. qzio also showed a PDO class wrapper, which might well see action at someone’s workplace.
Some film-makers were present, scouting the location, fitting the images in their heads. It will be a glorious documentary.
A great time was had by all.
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.
a Polish website on laminates have pictures. They mention Rowmark (“Great people, great plastic”. Amazing.)
Do you have any thoughts or ideas on this matter? Done anything? Ever had a good nametag? Ever bought one? Do you have picture links to good ones?
Peter Stuge of coreboot now blogs
Recently, the word “hacker” has created turmoil where I live. A friend who develops amazing things has written a bit about it. I want to frame his story by this back-and-forth between us:
Me: “The Web has enormous reach.”
Peter Stuge: “Yes, unfortunately.”
In an unthinkable turn of events, this man took up blogging in English at peter.stuge.se. Peter’s a non-webby electronicist and hardware man, so this step’s huge.
Read his moving story.