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Straight from my shell $ history|awk '{print $2}'|awk 'BEGIN {FS="|"} {print $1}'|sort|uniq -c|sort -rn|head -10 121 rake 71 cd 49 ruby 29 ls 24 mongrel_rails 23 tail 21 svn 16 mate 15 sudo 15 ps via Anarchaia Technorati Tags: meme, shell, unix

Maybe this saves you a couple of hours of frustration: def syslog_progress if request.xhr? worker = MiddleMan.get_worker(session[:host_info]) progress_percent = worker.progress render :update do |page| page.call('progressPercent', 'progressbar', progress_percent) if progress_percent >= 100 page.assign 'stop_polling', true end end else redirect_to :action => 'list' end end The RJS calls didn’t execute at all and the excessive use of “alert()” to debug neither. Finally, looking at the response in FireBug I saw that the TextMate Footnote plugin was adding it’s links to the response, rendering the Javascript invalid. ...

As of today: The Manifesto for Agile Software Development We are uncovering better ways of developing software by doing it and helping others do it. Through this work we have come to value: Individuals and interactions over processes and tools Working software over comprehensive documentation Customer collaboration over contract negotiation Responding to change over following a plan signed - Jens-Christian Fischer for InVisible GmbH Technorati Tags: agile, manifesto, work

The first meeting of the swiss Ruby Users Group (and/or zurich.rb) is next thursday, 28.9.2006 at 19:00 in Restaurant Reithalle near the main train station in Zurich. (see details) So far we have 11 people coming, if you are interested in joining, please send me an email, so I can update the reservation at the restaurant. Technorati Tags: zurich.rb, swissrug, zurich

Yesterday was one of these days where nothing seemed to happen. Actually a lot happened. I visited my friend Florian in hospital. After a brief stint in a recovery clinic he’s now back in hospital where he’s head was drained of excessive water. He slept while I was there, and I don’t think he realised that I was in the room, even though he briefly looked at me. Humans are so fragile. ...

I’m sitting and watching an amazing screencast that shows, how Ruby Quiz 84 (computing and printing Pascals Triangle) is solved, using a test driven development approach. Not only is it a good show of how TDD works, but it also shows the power of TextMate (THE editor on Mac OS X) but also the beauty of Ruby code. It’s long (about an hour), but worth watching! Technorati Tags: textmate, ruby, testing