musings

I did this before… jcf@Arwen:amazon: history|awk '{a[$2]++} END{for(i in a){printf "%5d\t%s\n ",a[i],i}}'|sort -rn|head 191 git 58 rake 48 cd 40 cap 25 mate 24 jruby 16 ruby 10 ssh 7 script/plugin 6 rm

Actually, it has been done since Tuesday night at 03:00 in the morning and I’m still recovering… I wrote, indexed, checked and - most importantly - handed in 22 Word documents, 101 pictures (believe it or not, in BMP format, 20 drawings (EPS). I heard from my editor, that it’s in typesetting right now and will run to around 600 pages in print. Wheew - glad I didn’t know that when I started writing this book. ...

History have just returned from 1936 Berlin, having taken the place of one of Leni Riefenstahl’s cameramen and assassinated Adolf Hitler during the opening of the Olympic Games. Let a free world rejoice! From the International Association of Time Travelers: Members’ Forum Subforum: Europe - Twentieth Century - Second World War via Stefan Tilkov Atari Ah - fond memories about the Atari ST. And the account of how it got developed ...

Following the cartoon to Erik Burkes ‘Simplicity’ I stumbled upon (sorry, I forgot via what blog) on Ryan Tomaykos article Administrative Debris which in turn was inspired by Edward Tuftes critique of the iPhone. The idea is that the content is the interface, the information is the interface - not computer administrative debris. Let that sink in. Content is the interface. Nothing else. When you watch a photo on the iPhone nothing else is visible. ...

As promised in the last post, here’s my tiny plugin… and this is the readme: IntlDate Date or DateTime Columns are usually show in forms with the date helpers. However, often you just want a textfield, instead of the multiple combo boxes. This will work, but dates are displayed in the database format (2008-03-13 14:55:44). While that is readable, it’s usually not what your users expect. To display dates, you can define formats used in the to_s method of the Date objects ...

Hello Lazyweb: I have written a small Rails Plugin to handle DateTime values in text fields. I would love to release it, but I’m not using Subversion any more. Can anyone arrange a login on Github for me?