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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 …
RE: the recent anime and IP controversy in Singapore, everyone affected in Singapore should read this sensible post by Dark Mirage. He offers really good advice on what you should and shouldn’t do should you find yourself the recipient of one of Odex’s letters. Be sure to read the comments too.
Something I noticed completely by accident today when I clicked on the titlebar of QuickTime Player today with the Cmd key held down. The “titlebar” is this thing here - I’m not sure that’s the right name for it:Anyway, if you hold down the Cmd key (aka the Apple key), a menu pops up that ...
A slight change this week since Rails has moved to Git - all changesets are now referenced to Github.This week’s report covers changes from 7 Apr 2008 to 13 Apr 2008 (the day the correspon …
Subscribers who read my blog for Ruby- or Mozilla-related posts should ignore this post, it’s another of those blogging as catharsis posts. To my defence, I haven’t done one of those for a really long time!If you’re staying in Singapore and looking to try out the food at Shokudo Japanese Food Bazaar after it was ...
This week’s report covers changes from 29 April 2008 to 4th May 2008 (the day the corresponding Rails Envy podcast was recorded).change_table for ActiveRecord migrationsThanks to Jeff Dean …
After seriously giving Firefox 3 Beta 4 a try due to Safari 3.1 breaking the Shift key in Gmail, I’ve converted to using Firefox 3 Beta 4 as my primary browser. Before, I was using Firefox 2 as my main web browser, with a Safari window open for Gmail (because I tend to have around ...
Another awfully sleepy week on Rails edge. Though by the time I had sent over the notes to Gregg Pollack and Jason Seifer of the awesome Rails Envy podcast, there has been some nice changes (that I’ll be mentioning next week, but there’s absolutely nothing stopping you from checking those out yourself).In other interesting news, ...
This week’s report covers changes from 10 Mar 2008 to 16 Mar 2008 (the day the corresponding Rails Envy podcast was recorded).Custom JavaScript and stylesheet symbolsRemember how you can d …
This week’s report covers changes from 3 Mar 2008 to 9 Mar 2008 (the day the corresponding Rails Envy podcast was recorded).Improve performance on :include/:conditions/:limit queries by se …
It’s time again for some edge Rails love. If you haven’t listened to it yet, be sure to check out this week’s Rails Envy podcastThis week’s report covers changes from 17 …
I’m gonna post up the Living on the Edge a little earlier this week because I’ve found I just can’t keep up (when things get busy) with 2 separate sets of notes for the Rails Envy podcast and another for my own blog posts.From this week onwards, I’ll be following Pratik’s suggestion to post about ...
Not much going on this week on edge Rails. It does seem however that we do have a new Rails core member, Joshua Peek. Also, the new Rails’ bug tracker hosted on Lighthouse is ready f …
This week’s report covers changes from 21 Apr 2008 to 27 Apr 2008 (the day the corresponding Rails Envy podcast was recorded).Not much interesting to report this week - there were mostly a …
This week’s report covers changes from 24 Mar 2008 to 30 Mar 2008 (the day the corresponding Rails Envy podcast was recorded).There’re lots of big exciting changes this week on edge. …
If you’ve ever used ActiveResource or for that matter, coded anything that involves interacting with a remote API, you’ve probably had the misfortune of having that API go down or become responsive. The experienced old geezers would already have forseen the problem and set a timeout on those API calls. For the rest of us, ...
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