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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

Scripting Screencasts Castanaut is a DSL and library to script ScreenCasts in Ruby. Nifty! while_saying "To install it, drag it to your bookmarks bar." do move to_element("a.button") drag to(88, 106) pause 0.5 hit Enter end Scripting the Shell What if you could use Ruby instead of the shell? You can local_dir = Rush::Box.new('localhost')['/Users/adam/server_logs/'].create servers = %w(www1 www2 www3).map { |n| Rush::Box.new(n) } servers.each { |s| s['/var/log/nginx/access.log'].copy_to local_dir["#{s.host}_access.log"] } Rush - the Ruby shell ...

Opera Kestrel Mac Blog Opera used to be my favourite Web browser. That is until they started Kestrel (9.5) alphas. A lot of crashing… The advent of the new Opera Mac Blog also marks a new release… I have been using Firefox 3.0 beta 3 for some time now and actually have started to like it (unlike the old versions, that I generally hate) Family My father would have turned 98 today. Happy birthday. Tobias cried in your memory yesterday. ...