Working With Rails

Dell to Offer 12 Month Limited Warranty to all Affected Customers

Last April I splashed out on a bargain through E-Bay on a Dell XPS M1330.  It truly is an awesome machine however there was one huge flaw, the Nvidia graphics card is completely fubar'd.  Today Dell decided to offer the following:

Dell will offer a 12-month limited warranty enhancement specific to this issue. For all customers worldwide, we plan to add 12 months of coverage for this issue to the existing limited warranty up to 60 months from the date of purchase for the following systems

More information will be available from the Direct 2 Dell blog when they get it, however more information can be found here and here for those who are affected.

I have quite a few grievances about this.  When Dell realized there was an issue with so many defective GPU's they quietly went along and released a bios upgrade (A12), as a result the fans are now on all of the time.  It constantly has a GPU temp of above 60 degrees, any bit of load on it and it shoots through the roof up to 80-90 degrees.  

Thankfully I have well over 3 years left on this warranty but with the fan being on all the time with the noise and decreased battery life, not to mention the increased wear and tear on the fan and other components would the entire system not warrent need to be replaced?

If the GPU or the motherboard needs a replacement, then what is it replaced with?  Is there a defect free GPU available or do we just get landed back with a defective one again?  If we get a defective one then how long will that be covered under warrenty for?  Personally I don't want to switch to the lower powered Intel graphics chip, but what is the alternative?

Dell, if you guys are reading any of this, give me some hope for this awesome machine, give us more information, issue a mass recall but for christ sake take more action; it's what your customers deserve.

Novos cursos on-line e-Genial

Rails model validation without database using active_form

Shoulda x RSpec: Cuidado nas comparações

Shameless RailsConf Self-Plug

In case you're coming to RailsConf Europe, you might be interested in the tutorial I tutorial on deploying and monitoring Rails applications I'm giving together with Jonathan Weiss.

See you there!

Tradução: O que Rails (2.2) Thread-safe significa?

Desde meu relato sobre a RailsConf eu já havia dito que Josh Peek tinha um branch do Rails no Github, num trabalho para o Google Summer of Code, tendo Michael Koziarski como mentor.

Finalmente, David Hansson anunciou que Josh Peek passa a fazer parte do Core Team, e uma das coisas que isso implica é finalmente fazer o merge do branch de thread-safe do Josh para dentro do trunk oficial!

Agora, Charles Nutter – sempre à frente dessas polêmicas iniciais – resolveu escrever uma lista de perguntas e respostas (Q/A) sobre que efeitos thread-safety causa no Rails, e especialmente sobre o mundo JRuby. Naturalmente existem muitas opiniões do próprio Charles aqui, mas a maior parte deve ser factualmente correta.

Segue a tradução do artigo dele:

Links for August 17th

Twitter Updates for 2008-08-17

The Kitchen Remodel

Get Your Twitter Timeline into WordPress

iwannagothere.net, a different way of traveling

iwannagothere.net is the last project from mamuso, Maria and me. It's a site about traveling with two main purposes:

1. share all the special places you have discovered in your travels: a singular monument, a delicious and cheap restaurant, a small museum with special charm, a park where you can see the most wonderful sunset ever...
2. help you to prepare your travels with all the information uploaded in the site

It's a kind of independent and high quality information travel guide.

As in unvlog.com we developed it in Ruby on Rails, (now running version 2.1), in our free time, along 3 months. Now we are refining a lot of details, and adapting some parts that we have seen people don't us as we thought.

We are going to explain all the technical issues we had in a serie of small posts in this blog or in the iwannagothere's blog. As well, we are going to present it at Spanish Rails Conference 08 in November.

We hope you enjoy the site and find it useful.

Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years

… and be prepared to suck in the process.

Two excellent – and classic – articles on how to become an expert programmer:

• How to become a hacker
• Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years

to put it differently: the best you can do is to suck less as a programmer, year by year. i recently talked to a guy who had lots of architecture knowledge, knew rails’ activerecord inside out, said he counted Scheme as his favourite language, and in general seemed a top coder. it turned out later on he barely could handle simple regular expressions.

product catalog (first tries with ruby on rails, 2005)

class ProductsController < ApplicationController

    #before_filter :authenticate

    layout 'shopAdmin'

    helper :sort
    include SortHelper

    def initialize
        super
        @categories = Category.find_all
        @materials  = Material.find_all

    end

    def index
        list
        render_action 'list'
    end

    def list
          sort_init 'category_id'
        sort_update
        @session['cart'] = 'A SHOPPING CART' 
        @products = Product.find(:all, :order => sort_clause)
        @category = @params['category']
    end
...
end

webshop (2000)

function layout_head($proj_name,$pid) {
    echo '<table width=600 border=0 cellspacing=2>';
    echo "<tr><td>projektomat v 0.013</td><td align=right rowspan=2><a href=http://rmltk.weinbau-jauk.at/index.php?pid=$pid>[�bersicht]</a><br/><a href=http://rmltk.weinbau-jauk.at/protected/upload.php?pid=$pid&proj_name=$proj_name>[neue datei hochladen]</a></td></tr>";
    echo "<tr><td>aktuelles projekt: <b>$proj_name</b></td></tr></table>";
}

online calendar (1999)

<?php

if (!defined(INCLUDES)) include("./includes.inc.php");
if (!defined(HEADER)) include("./header.inc.php");
$class = "termin".$func;
$termin_head = "<title>Termin</title>\n<body class='$class' onload=self.focus();document.termin.stunde.focus();>\n<link rel='stylesheet' href='$templatepath/style.css'>";

$datum = mysql2dmy($datum[3]); ## killdatumarrayhere....

if (@$func=="edit") {
    bearbeiten($id);
    exit;
}
if (@$eintrag_neu) {
    echo submit("neu");
} elseif (@$eintrag_update) {
    echo submit("update");
} else {
    neu(0);
}

online calendar, snippet 2 (1999)

function submit($typ) {  ### NEUEN und UPGEDATEDEN termin add_info und eintragen in db 

    global $jahr,$monat,$tag,$stunde,$minute,$dauer,$text,$projekt,$protrack,$projekt_id,$teambox,$id;

    $datum =  "20$jahr-$monat-$tag";
    $zeit = "$stunde:$minute:00";        
    $text = nl2br($text); 
    $nr=1;
    $i=1;
    @end($teambox);
    $lastelementnr =  @key($teambox);        # hier werden die werte der checkboxes (per get �bergebenes array teambox[$id]) , werte  yes oder unset
    while ($i <= $lastelementnr) {        # nach $team_id[$nr] = teambox gewandelt  und dann weiter in brauchbare db-query-teile umgewandelt
        if (@$teambox[$i] AND $nr <= 5) {    
            $$teambox[$i] =$i; # yes wird durch den entsprechenden z�hlerwert ersetzt
            $team_id[$nr] = $$teambox[$i];
            # echo "<pre>team_id[$nr] = $team_id[$nr]</pre>"; ## mal echo einschalten und die ausgabe ansehen
            @$team_cols .= ",team_id$nr";
            @$team_vals .= ",'$team_id[$nr]'";
            @$team_update .= ",team_id$nr='$team_id[$nr]'";
            $nr++;
        }
        $i++;
    }

online questionnaire application (2001)

class radQuizBase 
{
  var $dbName, $form;
  var $debugFlag = false;
  var $quiz = array();
  var $quizForm;

  // variablen f�r fragen
  var $questionTypes = array (
    'free' => 'Freie Antwort',
_continues ... file has ~1.200 lines ..._

class radQuizAdmin extends radQuizBase 
{
  var $task;

  # variablen f�r fragebogen administration
  var $qSetName, $insertBeforeQuestionId, $qSetType;

  var $transDifficulty = array(
    'n.a.',
    'leicht', 
    'mittel', 
    'schwierig'
  );
_continues ... file has ~2.000 lines_ [...]

a self-written cms (2000)

################################ / logic start

if($func=='newEntry')
{
    $newId = newEntry($pid);
    eingabeseite($newId);
}
else
{
    // classic logic based on $pid and $aenderung
    if (!$pid)
    {
        echo auswahlseite($category);
    }
    else
    {
        if($showMulti == 'true')
        {
            echo showMulti($pid);
        }
        elseif (!file_exists(WA_ROOT.'/xml/'.$pid.'.xml')) 
        {
            $parms['title'] = $navititle;
            $parms['id'] = $pid;
            neue_seite($parms);
            eingabeseite($pid);
        }
        else // bearbeite bestehende seite
        {
            if(!$aenderung)
            {
                eingabeseite ($pid);
            }
            else
            {
                aenderung ($pid);
            }
        }

    }
}

Writing in English

I think that the moment has arrived. This blog switches to English (to my bad English, that surely all Spanish will understand), because this is the only way to participate in the conversation of the international community.

Summer streets yesterday morning

Fantastic Contraption: A fun online physics puzzle game

Shared by Nigel
Looks like fun.

Running Merb on Edge

The easiest way to run Merb from edge:

$ sudo gem install sake
$ sake -i http://github.com/wycats/merb-more/tree/master%2Ftools%2Fmerb-dev.rake?raw=true
$ sake merb:clone
$ sake merb:install:all

This will install the edge versions of all of the merb gems.

To keep things up to date, navigate to the directory that you ran the commands in and do:

$ sake merb:update
$ sake merb:install:all

RSS. Новостная лента

Теперь доступна новостная лента в формате RSS 2.0

Подписаться можно по тут или по ссылке внизу главной страницы.

Last.fm’s shame aggregator

FWIW, the example for Windows Forms using IronRuby

結婚式、ハネムーン、そして・・・-小確幸 これはすごい！

結婚式、ハネムーン、そして・・・-小確幸

これはすごい！

結婚式、ハネムーン、そして・・・-小確幸 と、こーゆー仕掛け。

結婚式、ハネムーン、そして・・・-小確幸

と、こーゆー仕掛け。

via ffffound.com

John McCain and Rick Warren, distilled

Comparison of Netbooks

Telling a good story - Rspec stories from the trenches [ma.gnolia]

Specs are your unit tests, their fast and lean and always running, helping you refactor and develop your code. They describe the system at the object level (and dependent on how you mock/stub they do this in isolation). Stories are like integration tests, they document how your system works. They help you know that your system meets the customers requirements. Your spec test is going to care about testing each action in your controller. Your story is going to care about usage of the system cutting through models/controllers/views. Hence specs tend to have a high coverage while stories cover only that which is important to the customer!

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Tags: development, testing, ruby, rspec, story-framework, reference

on moonlight, I'm still concerned about patents.

Hack Week: Moonlight Desklets. - Miguel de Icaza

Wish list: Two way XSLT

rb2js/Ruby to JavaScript

Butterflies and gorillas on the loose!

Um pouco de Erlang, programação funcional e recursividade

Perian

VLC media player

2008년 8월 17일

• 야구 또 9회 됐다(베이징 올림픽 야구 me2photo)2008-08-17 19:40:11

  

이 글은 꽃띠앙님의 2008년 8월 17일의 미투데이 내용입니다.

Jason Caclacanis is Wrong about Google Knol

OpenID, XRI, and Rails

Butterflies and gorillas on the loose! - http://snaptweet.com/1d05d

Explaining REST to Damien Katz

Rails 2.1 and some random notes for myself

Suger Burns Freaky

Well its day 3 of ridiculous road trip oh eight (better name to come). It took us 14 hours to do a 9 hour drive. The VW bus, Mamasita, isn’t ‘suppose’ to go over 55 or 60 mph, but we didn’t know that the speedometer was 10 mph off. So we were going 45 the whole way from Seattle to McCall Idaho. But 14 hours in a car with 3 beautiful women never hurt a pale kid like me. Threes company, you can call me Jack Tripper. We stopped to swim in the Columbia River and had amazing sandwiches in Pendleton, OR. By the time we got in it was almost 4 in the morning.

But we got there and day 2 was awesome. The day started out great with a run out the front door of the cabin and a big dive off the dock. The Bagley Family cabin is amazing, with a huge deck, grassy lawn all the way to the dock and a great fire pit. We had a breakfest cooked on their wood fired outdoor griddle of blueberry pancakes and bacon. Later there was boating, innertubing (neck hurts), cliff jumping, great food, smores, killed a man with a trident, booze, mushrooms and just an amazing day that just seamed to end. After a day like yesterday, people you just met, seem like great friends by the time you finally go to bed (...with them (JK)). They even have wifi here, so i figured i better post while I still can.

Today will prolly be more of the same, maybe mixing it up with a bike ride or a hike. Tomorrow the Apple Gang, Dagen, Roxy, Marely, Olivia, Nikki, and yours truly, will be leaving for Jackson Hole, where we will go camping with a Emma, childhood/family friend. Everything is going great and will continue to go so, because you know I do it. More to come.

number of cars passed: 5

number of peace or hang loose signs: 3

number of middle fingers: 1

road side observation: cows with numbers on them = how soon til I eat them (Echo, Oregon)

Bill Shannon, dancer, performance artist, man with cool crutches

Q/A: What Thread-safe Rails Means

merb_activerecord 0.9.3 to 0.9.4

The fixtures path in merb_activerecord version 0.9.4 is now by default spec/fixtures instead of test/fixtures!

aizatto: when it comes to HTTP status codes, I'm spoiled for choice!

WP-Syntax

RE: Создание собственных Web-приложений с помощью Ruby on Rails

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