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Waiting at the airport in London for the flight back to Zurich. Had an interesting and enjoyable day with a really good meeting, a walk in beautiful Regent Park with my friend Michael and lovely Thai dinner. Been sifting through the iPhone SDK information and videos. Ideas swirling through my head… Random Links of interest If Version Control Systems were Airlines - so true Ruby Debug Cheat sheet - needed that recently while trying to figure out, why an integration test failed

Smoke on Japan via vowe Git Backup Using Git to backup directories: gibak. I couldn’t get the OCaml files compiled (but I didn’t try that hard) Apple iPhone SDK released Server down MS Word 2008 - got 2.5 Gigs? My friend Benno writes a book in MS Word 2008 - he’s not happy…

Wonderful unobtrusive jQuery Gallery A photo gallery that just consists of an unordered list? You got it. Example jQuery The next Rails project I start, I will be using jQuery. Err the blog intro to jQuery

Flowing with the ebb Ebb aims to be a small and fast web server specifically for hosting web frameworks like Rails, Merb, and in the future Django. And it seems to be really fast: Ebb Google Gears go mobile Windows Mobile for now, others presumably coming too (iPhone, anyone?). Interesting blog entry about the whole thing.

Not really getting much done at the moment, but busy nonetheless. Here’s what crossed my newsreader: try-ing made easy Did you ever write this in your Ruby or Rails code? person.name rescue "" wouldn’t it be nicer to try to to it easier? person.try(:name) Chris thinks so too…. I improved on this (spectacularly) and now try supports fail: person.try(:name, :fail => "no person") The extension is trivial: ...

Wir haben seit Februar 2005 einen Toyota Prius, der uns zuverlässig gedient hat. Wir benutzen ihn aber nicht sonderlich, leben gut erschlossen mir öffentlichem Verkehr und das Wallis ist dank der NEAT mit dem Zug schneller zu erreichen als mit dem Auto. Deshalb haben wir uns entschlossen, das Auto zu verkaufen: roter 2004 Toyota Prius 1.5 Hybrid In Betriebnahme 2/2005 38'500 km gefahren letzer Service 4.3.2008 Sommer und Winterreifen Unfallfrei Ausstattungspaket II 6 Fach CD Wechsler / 9 Bose Lautsprecher ( GPS / Navigation Keyless Entry (nie mehr nach dem Schlüssel fummeln) Bluetooth Freispecheinrichtung (iPhone kompatibel) Sprachsteuerung (toller Demoeffekt) Laut Eurotax hat der Wagen einen Wiederverkaufswert von 28'150 Franken. Soviel hätten wir auch gerne dafür… ...