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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 ...
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. …
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 …
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 …
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 ...
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 …
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 ...
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 …
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, ...
It’s been a slow week on the Rails trunk this week in terms of exciting changes.This week’s report covers changes from 18 Feb 2008 to 24 Feb 2008 (the day the corresponding Rails Env …
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 ...
Here’s this week’s update of the important changes that have been happening on edge Rails. There were lots of performance patches this week, credit mostly due to the guys from …
It’s that time of the week again (every Wednesday for the overly observant, coinciding with the release of the Rails Envy podcast) for some choice updates of what changes have been happening on edge Rails. This week’s report covers changes from 4 Feb 2008 to 10 Feb 2008 (the day the Rails Envy podcast was ...
Here’s another week of noteworthy updates on the Rails trunk. Thanks once again to the Rails Envy podcast for featuring my updates, and even bigger thanks to the Rails contributors and committers who make things happen.The company I work for, Bezurk (yeah we know some of you hate the name “Bezurk” - that’s going to ...
My fellow Rubyist at work, Arun Thampi, has released ActiveCouch, a Ruby library for CouchDB (if you don’t know what CouchDB is, read this). Check out the official blog announcement of ActiveCouch.ActiveCouch tries to be an ActiveResource and ActiveRecord (yes, there is even an ActiveCouch::Migration class for creating CouchDB views) equivalent for representing CouchDB …
I have a rather old Linksys WRT54G (v2.2) wireless router that used to disconnect rather frequently for no apparent reason. It is almost guaranteed to get disconnected when I go crazy with using Axel to download files.The worse part of the entire “router disconnected” thing is how it takes down my DSL connection (provided by ...
Another week of edge Rails changes, featured on the Rails Envy podcast. This weeks’ report covers changes from 21 Jan 2008 to 27 Jan 2008 (the day the Rails Envy podcast was recorded).Eage …
Prototype’s Try.these is a really useful bit of code (though I doubt it sees much application outside of JavaScript libraries). I have this evil bit of code somewhere, for example:var results = Try.these( function() { return response.responseText.evalJSON(true); }, function() { return eval('(' + response.responseText + ')'); });Evilness personified in its evaled …
Songza’s quite nice, especially after us non-US users lost access to Pandora. Now I can finally listen to some boy band music when I feel like it (because I don’t have any in my library).
Funniest bug report I’ve seen on the Rails issue tracker: http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/10919. Be sure to read the comments, and the resolution:I appreciate that penis enhancements are the norm for most of the commenters here, but their use is definitely not widespread enough to justify fixing this.
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