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Converting ActiveRecord instances to their JSON representation has always been a topic that has been dear to me. I’d tried to get a patch that adds to_json to ActiveRecord into Rails (but the quality of my patch was lacking in a few respects). The Jsonifier plugin that I wrote tried to address the lack of ...
Saw this in a MacDonald’s at a local shopping mall:If you can look past the fuzziness of the photo, it’s actually someone using a HP laptop with an Apple sticker. Now, if only I can get a …
One of the reasons I’ve been rather quiet on this blog ever since my return from the trip to Tokyo is this nice medium-sized abscess I brought back with me. It appeared about 3 days into the trip, and I must have really bad luck because it was located on my posterior - moving around on foot and sitting down were particularly trying events. Considering that we got around …
This is really nice: trunk builds of Firefox 3 since 1 Sept 2007 have a smarter Password Manager that asks you whether you want to save your passwords in a non-modal way. (The relevant enhancement ticket is replace modal pre-submit save password dialog with post-submit bar for those of you who want to read the ...
Now if you’re a regular user of Firefox, you’ve probably already had the opportunity to be dismayed by how you cannot copy and paste text with newlines into the search bar. All you end up with is the first line of text. I just end up typing in the search terms myself or copy and ...
Just in the nick of time for the Christmas target, the Ruby core team has released Ruby 1.9.0 - Matz announced the release on the ruby-talk mailing list not too long ago.Rubygem and Ruby library developers, now’s the time to get down to making your Ruby code compatible with 1.9.0.Rails is not too far from ...
Firefox 3 Beta 1 is out! Check out the pretty sweet list of changes.If you want to try it, you’ll probably want to run Firefox 3 and Firefox 2 at the same time. Only this time you should remember to rename Firefox 3 so that it doesn’t override your install of Firefox 2.I’d blogged about ...
An old post I wrote on a spoof MMORPG named “Outside” was Dugg not too long ago and I was quite pleased to find that my server and the blogging software (WordPress) that I use was handling the load extremely well. Quite obviously I was getting more hits in a day than entire months:My setup ...
VLC media player 0.8.6 (changelog) was released a few weeks ago so this may be old news, but I am clearing my backlog of drafts.Mac OS X users, if you watch videos in full screen mode (lik …
Just a quick note of something I found out while reading Transcending CSS: all the themes (message styles, contact list styles, etc.) in Adium are crafted with our old friends XHTML, CSS and JS. I opened up a few AdiumXtras to see for myself and true enough, <div>s and CSS rules make up the style. ...
Saw this on a Christmas brochure while buying some pastry from the local Delifrance cafe:I immediately thought of Mr. Hankey the Christmas Poo (of South Park fame).While the resemb …
Yes, it’s a plug for myself and it’s shameless:Whatever Zed Shaw may say about Rails, Rails has done a huge part in making web development fun again for jaded web developers (first-time web developers probably won’t be able to tell the difference), and more importantly, raising the profile of Ruby more than any other Ruby ...
Tomorrow.sg has an entry with a photo of glue sniffing girls on a MRT train. This picture is tits (as Eric Cartman would say).
I just noticed a very fresh changeset committed into the Rails trunk that’s pretty damn cool: changeset 7315. Michael Koziarski (aka nzkoz”) has refactored ActiveRecord’s attribute-related methods that, among other things:caches typecasted attribute values in hashes. This avoids expensive typecasting (such as for Time-related attributes) which means access …
Yup, it’s time for your weekly dose of the changes on edge Rails, more or less covered in the forthcoming Rails Envy podcast. Using edge Rails is neither arcane nor terrifying, and hopefully weekly reports like these will allow you to take control of your own release schedule with your Rails apps.This week’s report covers ...
The mootools developers look like they are having fun defining their project roadmap:ootools roadmapMooTools Plugin to uninstall Internet Explorer from any machine within network range
After seeing this amusingly-named SSID, I thought it’d be fun to post the SSID of my wireless network at home:The name is completely not my idea so I claim no credit - I stole it from my girlfriend’s brother, who conceived the SSID of “AssAssID”.What’s your SSID and have you seen any amusing ones? Or ...
I just got back from BarCamp Singapore a few hours ago. I was only vaguely familiar with the Rules of BarCamp prior to this, and actually only found out about the event from Choon Keat (of RssFwd fame - check it out if you haven’t already) 2 days ago.Anyway, props to the organizers for putting this together (especially the free BarCamp t-shirts from Yahoo!). Personally, …
Today being RSS feed backlog-clearing day, I came across Jon Hicks’ Google Reader Theme, installed the Stylish extension for Firefox, added his user style for Google Reader to Stylish, and have been wow-ed ever since. Here’s a rough idea how it looks (click the thumbnail for a bigger picture):If you’re a Google Reader user like me, you’d probably like …
The Firefox 3 developers have been working on a visual refresh that integrates more tightly into the OS, and the Mac OS X version is looking pretty sweet. Well, public opinion varies greatly - from people who feel that it’s a rip off of Safari to those who really like the Brushed Metal look (myself ...
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