Musings

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… ...

Not much flow today, due to things happening that I will qualify (in due time, when I have more distance) as “lessons learned in life”. Still a small morcel: Rails on Git koz talks about what is needed before Rails can move from SVN to Git. Interesting! (We have moved to Git exclusively at InVisible, and enjoy the power) Out of that blogpost: Braid - svn:externals with git One of things git doesn’t handle are externals… braid looks like a solution to that problem. There’s an example of installing RSpec with braid ...

Social ToDo Another one of my ideas that I don’t need to do, because someone else did it: Hiveminder. A wonderful presentation and introduction over on SlideShare by pjf: | View | Upload your own