Dr Nic's Journey

Sarah Silverman “I’m F*cking Matt Damon” on...

Fri, 01 Feb 2008 22:23:43 +0100

Sarah Silverman “I’m F*cking Matt Damon” on Jimmy Kimmel

Using Rails routes anywhere

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 23:04:54 +0100

#
# this is how to use action_controller routes in a class/module other that the
# rails' view and controller classes
class C
  ActionController::Routing::Routes.install_helpers C
  def initialize
    @home_path = home_path
  end
end

— toolmantim

"Websites can also be seen as finite-state machines that run on people. Successful websites must be..."

Sat, 29 Dec 2007 09:49:13 +0100

“

Websites can also be seen as finite-state machines that run on people. Successful websites must be well-designed machines that run on people, that don’t crash, don’t halt, and have the side-effect of bringing more people in. Websites that don’t do this will disappear.

Instead of a finite-state machine, think of a website as a flowchart of motivations. For every state the user is in, there are motivations: it’s fun; it’s the next action; it saves money; it’s intriguing; I’m in flow; I need to crop the photo and I remember there’s a tool to do it on that other page; it’s pretty.
…
Users should always know their next state, how they can reach it, and why they should want to.

”

- wrapping up 2007 (28 December 2007, Interconnected)

Enterprise-ready! (t-shirt)

Sun, 16 Dec 2007 00:43:21 +0100

Enterprise-ready! (t-shirt)

Low-Cost Multi-touch Whiteboard using the Wii Remote by Johnny...

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 00:28:00 +0100

Low-Cost Multi-touch Whiteboard using the Wii Remote by Johnny Lee

Highway Edition of Guitar Hero - via www.geekculture.com

Thu, 13 Dec 2007 05:25:05 +0100

Highway Edition of Guitar Hero - via www.geekculture.com

Which of my projects are using Git?

Wed, 12 Dec 2007 22:55:35 +0100

I forget which projects are on git and which are on svn. Here’s a one liner to find the git ones.

find * -maxdepth 2 | grep "/.git$" | sed -e "s/\/.git//"

Then pipe that to xargs and you can do whatever you like with the knowledge.

Ahh, unix ftw.

via Kevin Clark on #caboose - Rubinius + Mongrel showing a...

Mon, 10 Dec 2007 09:13:24 +0100

via Kevin Clark on #caboose - Rubinius + Mongrel showing a webpage

Basejumping goes even more extreme - learning to fly?

Sun, 11 Nov 2007 23:05:45 +0100

Basejumping goes even more extreme - learning to fly?

Adam Keys was at RubyConf - as a poster on the wall (thx...

Mon, 05 Nov 2007 13:47:08 +0100

Adam Keys was at RubyConf - as a poster on the wall (thx topfunky!). BUT, nonetheless, regardless, ignorant of his lack of attendance he made and awesome awesome video for us…

Hot Damn - I’ve never seen the Ruby Ruby Ruby video clip...

Mon, 05 Nov 2007 13:38:00 +0100

Hot Damn - I’ve never seen the Ruby Ruby Ruby video clip before. Its hot diggity. Kaiser Chiefs - Ruby

Your momma is hacking your SQL

Thu, 11 Oct 2007 16:04:34 +0200

Your momma is hacking your SQL

via www.pizdaus.com

Wed, 03 Oct 2007 23:04:40 +0200

via www.pizdaus.com

Chasers APEC Motorcade Stunt in Sydney where they drove thru...

Thu, 13 Sep 2007 09:49:42 +0200

Chasers APEC Motorcade Stunt in Sydney where they drove thru $60m security up to George Bush’s hotel (via astekcbe)

Testing code to the (incorrect) extreme

Mon, 10 Sep 2007 13:18:26 +0200


it "should validate_presence_of digits" do
   my_model.line(7).should_read "validates_presence_of :digits" 
end

- Jay Levitt (here)

"Ethan and Mark, we’re very happy with Prototype and script.aculo.us at 37signals, but thanks for..."

Fri, 10 Aug 2007 16:09:32 +0200

“Ethan and Mark, we’re very happy with Prototype and script.aculo.us at 37signals, but thanks for your concern. Prototype has served me quite well since I created it in early 2005.”

- SamS @ 37signals

Wesabe: Firefox Uploader - awesomeness on a stick

Wed, 25 Jul 2007 16:04:48 +0200

Wesabe: Firefox Uploader - awesomeness on a stick

Packaging a rails/ruby app

Tue, 24 Jul 2007 08:51:10 +0200

Want to send a copy of your Rails app to someone? Our old friend Rake comes to the rescue. Stick this in your Rails app’s Rakefile:


require 'rake/packagetask'
require 'rake/clean'

NAME    = File.basename(File.expand_path(File.dirname(File.expand_path(__FILE__)))) unless defined? NAME
VERS = ENV['VERSION'] || begin
  `svn info` =~ /Revision: (\d+)/
  $1
end unless defined? VERS
CLEAN.include('pkg')

Rake::PackageTask.new(NAME, VERS) do |p|
  p.need_tar = true
  p.need_zip = true
  p.package_files.include('**/*')
  p.package_files.exclude(".svn")
  p.package_files.exclude("vendor/rails")
end

Now run rake package and it will generate tar and zip files, without edge rails included (tell them to install it themself).

"Yesterday, … I tried to install the god gem. It asked me if I wanted to install the daemons..."

Fri, 20 Jul 2007 15:55:18 +0200

“Yesterday, … I tried to install the god gem. It asked me if I wanted to install the daemons gem which is a dependency, and proceeded to do so. Shortly after that the power failed, maybe the name of that gem is sacreligious after all.”

- Rick DeNatale on RubyGems-Dev list

Mindmaps: of Ruby’s Array class

Tue, 17 Jul 2007 09:55:00 +0200

Mindmaps: of Ruby’s Array class