Against entropy.
I talked with a local PHP developer today, who’d seen my blog, and we talked some CakePHP, frameworks, servers, the general state of scripting languages, and so forth. And then we came to the subject of local communities, where developers meet up and talk shop. And, as a Copenhagener, I don’t know very much about …
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Get your Ruby butt to Malmo, Sweden! Workshop with David Black at kind host Polar Rose (a funky image search startup business). Time: Sunday, September 17 from 10:00-18:00, and is free to attend. Map on above link. [tags]rails,rubyonrails,event[/tags]
For those of you who did not get the memo: the excellent LiveHTTPHeaders Firefox extension is up and running again, on Firefox 1.5. It is an extension that monitors what goes in and out of your browser. Helpful, helpful. Mr Savard, maker of the thing, says on the site “I hope this will be useful …
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Computer scientist/bikeist Dave Clarke (05 Sep 2006) says (about Ruby on Rails being taught in colleges: I think there are many important computer science concepts to be learned from studying RoR. Typically, one should consider the language, be it Java, Ruby or C, to be the vehicle which helps one to learn concepts, rather than …
Mozilla’s developer docs can be a goldmine. Some of the stuff they have implemented is quite silly, but fun. /* Go wild with the feed propaganda. */ body { cursor:url(http://www.feedicons.com/images/layout/feed-icon-12×12.gif),crosshair; } See what I mean? Now go read what is new in JS1.7 (available in Mozilla Firefox 2.0.) [tags]CSS,Mozilla[/tags]
I was being interviewed at PuneRuby – next to my heroes. Strange, wonderful times.
From the PuneRuby forum for learning Ruby: Programmig is Art, Programmer is Artist. Code is Immortal!
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 …
shevegen is it possible to modify the return token ‘==>’ ? I’d like it to bear this instead ‘# =>’ or ‘# ==>’ bolsen maybe look at the CLI object? bolsen CLI outPrompt Look at that! You could edit your interactive Io prompt, to make it look like Ruby’s irb, for instance.
[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 …