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Slightly more than a month back I wrote this little iPhone app (App Store link), almost a toy app really, to check the usage of my data plan with my local telco (Singtel). I wanted to scratch an itch and I also really didn’t want to exceed my data plan – the fees are excessive.Anyway, ... 
Quick notes for installing libmemcached and Evan Weaver’s memcached gem, in case I forget (again):Get libmemcached source from http://tangent.org/552/libmemcached.html. Configure, make, make install. Make sure you get a version compatible with the Ruby memcached gem by opening the COMPATIBILITY file in the memcached gem files.gem install memcachedCreate a symlink ln -s …
Just a quick note to self. If you need to store Unicode and are using Sequel, make sure you:Create the database with a default charset of UTF8: CREATE DATABASE my_db DEFAULT CHARSET utf8;. I think then any tables you create uses the default charset of utf8 unless otherwise specified.Pass an :encoding option to Sequel’s MySQL ...
So we’ve been terribly busy at Bezurk these last 2 months or so working on our new re-branded site with a bunch of new features. We were lucky enough to secure a 4-letter domain name - wego.com (and it came at a price too!) so it was all worth it. Trust me, with a name ...
Something that really bugged me when using YUI Calendars and YUI AutoComplete widgets was how IFrame shims are currently being managed in libraries and home-brewed code (we use IFr …
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Some of you might know that I’m a rabid anime fan. I don’t talk much about it on this blog (actually, I don’t talk much on this blog anymore, seeing as I haven’t blogged this year). Anyway, yeah, one of my biggest passions and failings is my love for anime and I can’t stop myself ... 
The latest Firefox nightly builds have moved the Stop/Reload button into the right corner of the Location Bar. When you’re typing in the Location Bar, a green Go button is shown: That switches to a red Stop button when the page is loading: The thin line you see in the location bar is a progress ...
Jeena emailed me recently about his Rails plugin, plistifier, that allows you to render plists (property lists).It allows you to render your ActiveRecord objects as plists (among other things):def show @post = Post.find(params[:id ]) respond_to do |format| format.xml { render :xml => @post } format.plist { ...
For those of you who use the excellent Railscasts TextMate theme and want to replicate the theme in Xcode, you can grab my version from Github. This is what it looks like:Save it into ~/Library/Applicatio n Support/Xcode/Color Themes/, restart Xcode, and open its Preferences. You will be able to pick the Railscasts Color Theme in the ... 
For those of you who use the excellent Railscasts TextMate theme and want to replicate the theme in Xcode, you can grab my version from Github. This is what it looks like:Save it into ~/Library/Applicatio n Support/Xcode/Color Themes/, restart Xcode, and open its Preferences. You will be able to pick the Railscasts Color Theme in the ... 
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