Just give it a damn ID

(posted by rickbradley) zoom

Berlin beckons again :)

spikyblackcat

goth_twiglet

Happy Independence Day, have a great 4th of July!

Extending Your Rails Application

feyeleanor @ 2008-07-04T14:48:00

  framework 'Cocoa'

  NSApplication.sharedApplication

  class Window
    attr_accessor   :frame, :text_frame, :window, :text_field

    def initialize
      @frame = NSRect.new(NSPoint.new(0, 0), NSSize.new(450, 140))
      @window = NSWindow.alloc.initWithContentRect @frame,
            styleMask:(NSTitledWindowMask + NSClosableWindowMask + NSMiniaturizableWindowMask),
            backing:NSBackingStoreBuffered,
            defer:false

      @text_frame = NSRect.new(NSPoint.new(40, 90), NSSize.new(400, 18))
      @text_field = NSTextField.alloc.initWithFrame @text_frame
      @text_field.setBezeled false
      @text_field.setStringValue "Yay for MacRuby!!!"
      @text_field.setBackgroundColor NSColor.windowBackgroundColor
      @text_field.setEditable false
      @text_field.setSelectable false

      @window.contentView.addSubview @text_field
      @window.center
      @window.setLevel NSFloatingWindowLevel
      @window.makeKeyAndOrderFront nil
    end

    def setDelegate delegate
      @window.setDelegate delegate
    end
  end

  class WindowDelegate < Object
    def app
      NSApplication.sharedApplication
    end
    def windowWillClose id
      app.terminate 0
    end
  end

  window = Window.new
  window.setDelegate WindowDelegate.alloc.init

Happy Independence Day!

Google calculator response to "once in a blue moon"

Results in the following:

once in a blue moon = 1.16699016 � 10-8 hertz

Can be tested here

organizing my new office to celebrate independents’ day.

Codebase: Novo repositório GIT “social”

@xentek bwaHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!…

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стили в in_place_editor

Zile de Vacanta

Programblings » Blog Archive » The illustrated guide to recovering lost commits with Git

Um monte de …. lixo?

Frase da semana (passada)

Identi.ca: another win for Montreal

(posted by rickbradley) zoom

Show Viacom how much we love them!

“Validations in rails improvised”

“Cargo Culting in ruby”

Buying an Openmoko Neo FreeRunner

Today Openmoko released the first consumer phone running the Openmoko platform, called Neo FreeRunner. According to a post on Slashdot it’s only sold to people in the United States, so I wanted to see what happened if I tried to buy one.

I started out on the openmoko.com frontpage. There is a big green box inviting me to click on it, so I do that.

Nice, a picture and specifications on one page. That’s really helpful because those are the things I look for on a product page. Now I want to buy it, so I click ‘BUY IT NOW’.

Apparently ‘now’ is a relative term. My guess is that ordering one through a distributor near me is going to take longer, so I click ‘BUY FROM THE OPENMOKO STORE’.

Ok, another product page. I notice that the top navigation changed to ‘STORE/DIRECT’, so at least I made it into the store. I notice another ‘BUY IT NOW’ link, so I click that.

Huh, what’s this, another product page? I check the top navigation to make sure I’m still in the store. I guess I need to scroll down now.

Ah, finally, an ‘ADD TO CART’ link. That usually means we’re almost there.

Unfortunately the store seems to be broken. The website informs us that someone apparently forgot to pass the variant ID, what a bummer. Maybe I should try the search next time.

Appartement de 55m² à louer à Noisy le sec à partir du 1er août 2008.

Voilà voilà, l'aventure Paris se termine pour de vrai (enfin pour ce qui est d'y vivre) ; les cartons sont prêts, direction Lille.

=== Attention, début de la page publicité : ===

Étant donné que nous remontons, notre appartement sera donc disponible à partir du 1er août.
Le loyer mensuel est de 577€ (mais l'agence ou le propriétaire l'augmentera sûrement un peu) auquel il faut rajouter un abonnement au gaz (pour l'eau chaude et les plaques de cuisson ~50€).

Concernant les transports le RER E est à 2km (joignable par la navette boissière ~10 minutes) et les métros 11 et 9 sont accessibles par le bus 129 à 1km (Station La Boissière, Fernand Lamaze).

Pour localiser l'appartement c'est là.
Quelques photos sont disponibles en pièce jointe dans ce fichier zip.

Si ça vous branche l'agence à contacter est ATM & Gaillard : 01 48 91 97 97
Sinon vous pouvez peut être en parler autour de vous :-)

Si vous avez une question précise, c'est par ici.

=== Fin de la page publicité (comme pour le service public). ===

PS : Si j'en parle c'est juste pour éviter de payer le préavis, je n'ai pas de commission de la part de l'agence.

Bozo actor dead at 83 - CNN.com

Validations in rails, improved

Eclipse Git Plugin

Long Hiatus

Ok - I've fallen off the Wagon on blogging again... been busy with work, and also been doing a lot of Gold Coast stuff. Sorry - I will try harder.

One of the things I have been involved with is Bar Camp Gold Coast - which is on TOMORROW! It's not to late to signup if you are still interested. We have lots of stuff happening, some giveaways and actually have some decent Internet for once! 38 people and counting signed up so far - if it's anything like Brisbane I'm sure we'll get quite a few extras. We ordered Pizza for 50 - so hope it's not too much more!

Reverse Graffiti

proxy: error reading status line from remote server

A few months ago, on Swirrl’s test server, we were seeing errors like this in the Apache error log, about once a day (normally when the server had been idle for a while – i.e. overnight)

proxy: error reading status line from remote server ...

The (ruby on rails) application would be non-responsive, and the only way to get it going again would be to restart its mongrels.

After a bit of head-scratching and Googling, we realized that it was because we didn’t have the MySQL gem installed on that server. The mysql gem installs a Mysql API module for Ruby. It provides the same functions for Ruby programs that the MySQL C API provides for C programs.

(We also made a small change to our Apache config, but I don’t think that this made any difference.)

One small gotcha is that some of the ActiveRecord error messages produced with/without the MySQL gem are different, so if you’re doing any custom error handling (e.g. for database uniqueness violations etc), you might want to check this.

Not a minute too soon

aizatto: His scandalous career

Eight Ways to Orientate Yourself Anywhere

"If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough."

It’s Rainham Sheds. davidthedesigner

Everyone digs

ugoday @ 2008-07-04T12:36:00

My daughter just threw up three times. What a night. My wife and I are both so exhausted.

Rails Configuration: Yielding self in initializer

I've come across situations in Rails where you want to repeatedly invoke methods on some class with a long name and it gets ugly and tedious that you have to repeat the class name on every line. I just realized that unlike in the config/environments files the config object is not available in the config/initializer files. I use the AppConfig plugin to parameterize my application and I came up with the yield_self method to make my config/intializers/app_config.rb more readable:

# Method to supplement the app_config plugin. I want to crash early and be alerted if
# I have forgotten to define a parameter in an environment.
def config_param(name)
  AppConfig.param(name) do
    raise("No app_config param '#{name}' defined in environment #{RAILS_ENV}, " +
      "please define it in config/environments/#{RAILS_ENV}.rb and restart the server")
  end
end

class Object
  def yield_self
    yield self
  end
end

AppConfig::Base.yield_self do |config|
  config.site_name = "Simple Signup"
  config.admin_email = '"Simple Signup" <info@simplesignup.se>'
  config.exception_emails = %w(info@simplesignup.se)
  config.email_prefix = "[#{config.site_name}]"
  config.signup_timeout = 5
  config.send_activate_email = false

  config.transaction_fee = lambda do |price|
    price.blank? ? 0.0 : [10.0, 5.0+0.035*price.to_f].max.round(2)
  end

  config.bank_fee = lambda do |price, card|
    0.0
  end
end

ExceptionNotifier.exception_recipients = config_param(:exception_emails)
ExceptionNotifier.sender_address = %{peter_marklund@fastmail.fm}
ExceptionNotifier.email_prefix = "#{config_param(:email_prefix)} ERROR: "

The method config_param might be more appropriately named app_config. That will be a refactoring for another day though.

Extensión de Firefox de Abbrr.com

村里来了拆迁队

1月28日，第15届(2006年度)全国新闻摄影作品评选活动所有奖项的提名都已产生，所有金银铜大奖都将从这些作品中选出，1月29日新闻发布会将公布获得大奖的名单。图为日常生活单幅提名作品《村里来了拆迁队》。

　　2006年4月7日，羊坊村工作人员带着大批联防队员前往下一个点拆除违章建筑。当天，丰台区花乡羊坊村村民王艳荣家100多平方米的花棚被当 作违章建筑强制推翻，而花乡2008奥运办公室工作人员则表示，清除违建主要针对在承包地上建房出租的行为，盖花棚不涉及土地使用性质改变，应协商解决。 京华时报 甄宏戈 摄

big flags

Come hang out at studio b tomorrow night in brooklyn! bbq! I’ll be there around...

Innerleithen TT Series 2008 Round 1

Fed up of riding boring, non-technical courses? Then get yourself along to the Innerleithen TT Series!

The course is a spanker, climbs most of the way up the black before taking the shorcut across to the crop-circles. Then it’s round some of the old-school singletrack which I hadn’t ridden since a few years back with Pete Laing. After this, the fun really starts! Down the downhill pushup track (very gravelly), down The Tunnel, down New Luge, out onto the bottom of Old Luge. Then down The Deer Hunter, eventually finishing with the ski-jump into the arena.

I decided to ride there for the first round, a hugely sensible idea after 3 weeks off the bike. I blasted the climb, loving the slightly damp technical bits. Unfortunately, when I hit the old-school part, my right calve locked up, and I sat in the heather for a while waiting for it to ease off. It didn’t, so I had to suffer it for the descent (and most of the next day too). Was still loving the sheer awesomeness of the course.

Organised by Helen Findlay there are another four rounds, roughly the last Tuesday of the month for July, August, and September. Check the web-link at the top for more details.

Google Gives Away Web App Security Tool

Firefox Extensions - Set as Startup Page(s)