April 2010
2 posts
Checking SASS files for errors and warnings on... →
How to recover an ATMEGA with incorrectly flashed... →
July 2009
1 post
Paul Hudak of Yale fame on Programming languages... →
HasKore sounds promising (pun intended!)
February 2009
1 post
Note to self: soap4r and passenger don't play nice
You’ll have to use conservative spawning mode in passenger to be able to use soap4r.
Disappointing.
January 2009
2 posts
3 tags
fudometeralert
argued with a good friend about apple (both hw and sw). the only argument I’ll accept as valid was a much smaller scene of homebrew vst- and photoshop-plugins. (been there) apart from that it was mostly uninformed blah. he’s using vista 64bit. go figure.
The timetracker I've been waiting for just got... →
June 2008
1 post
Gloc vs. Rails 2.1
The internal Rails Date-Helpers (select_day, select_month, select_year) somewhere on the way to R2.1 got a third param called html_options. Too bad Gloc didn’t notice :)
May 2008
2 posts
note to self: rsync...
rsync -r -v -t —progress /Volumes/ROCKBOX/ /Volumes/Musik/musik/
Fixing Firefox after a user migration in OS X
When I used the (otherwise great) migration assistant to transfer my files from my old MBP to the new one, everything went smoothly. With one exception: Downloading files with Firefox became nearly impossible, since it wanted to save the temp files in a non-existing directory. Why? Because I also changed my username on the new machine (to proactively comply with the OS X Server rules we’ll...
April 2008
2 posts
“(Ok, that’s what my family calls it; the closet with old CDs, the occasional...”
– Andy Hunt on his “Closet of Death” from this article
(sounds awfully familar, especially the assortment of SCSI adaptors)
“We use the same word, security, to describe a feeling, and a reality. Knowing...”
– Bruce Schneier on wired.com/politics
March 2008
2 posts
GeekTool. For functional desktop backgrounds! →
Hooray for Lifehacker. Boo! for me finding out about it just now.
Why setup ist not working in functional tests in... →
At first I was thinking: yay, they cleaned up the Rails 1.2 setup mess. Then I was thinking: Waitaminute, I cannot set up any setup code at all. Turns out this is fixed in trunk, but a real bummer nevertheless. Sometimes Rails takes very very scary changes.
January 2008
1 post
For futare reefarence
def midi_to_freq(note)
440.0 * ( 2.0 ** ((note.to_f - 69.0) / 12))
end
I can’t really say how often I was looking for that one.
November 2007
1 post
Lessig at TED →
Lawrence Lessig is always stunning. Watching him talk gives you more fundamental insigts in a few minutes than any politician mananges in a lifetime. He is simply, you know, right about these things. Watch it!
September 2007
2 posts
Vote early, vote often. For us, of course. →
This is our railsrumble entry called “soundbadge”
Wow. This will stick. →
Sexy voice, nice track.
August 2007
1 post
How to make your plugin "reloadable"... →
June 2007
2 posts
“Cool employees are healthier, happier and more productive”
– So this is the new AdobeAir everybody is talking about…
And then a miracle occurs →
May 2007
2 posts
Most obscure browser bug evar? →
Safari forgets to send the http auth headers if the URL contains a semicolon. Known bug, present in leopard, as it seems. I mean, like, WTF?
A thing to know about for loops in ruby
I always thought that the following constructs are identical: for comment in comments … end comments.each do |comment| … end Turns out, I was wrong. After using for...in, comment is still valid. After using each, it isn’t. The latter is expected, the former…probably not.
April 2007
3 posts
HackityHack →
Proof that _why needs to be leader of the world federation. The soonerer the betterer. Apart from that, HH looks very promising. I remember hacking away on a C64 (and even on the BASIC powered Sharp pocket calculator my father had) - No other experience had a stronger impact on my career than these lazy afternoons with ?SYNTAX ERROR and GOSUB 50000.
ruby/icalendar →
A rather lightweight but very useful library to create (and parse) icalendar data. Small sidenote: converting a time object (created by ActiveRecord) into a DateTime object requires serious hackery. Sucks.
March 2007
2 posts
No, it is not a good idea...
…to try to run Adobe Lightroom on 10000+ Files sitting on a network share connected over standard 100 MBit ethernet. Mr. Beachball, it is, I presume?
Ubuntu for christians →
Oh. My. God. Literally.