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The company I work for was featured on a short ‘Surf Time‘ segment on Channel NewsAsia’s TV channel. Catch the Bezurk Surf Time video on YouTube.
If you’ve worked with JSON long enough in Rails, you’d probably have noticed that the JSON the convenient Object#to_json method spits it is not strictly JSON-compliant (according to the RFC 4627, which states that object keys should be “strings”, and “strings” should be double-quoted). Here’s an example of what to_json produces when …
Now that’s how you get a Dungeons and Dragons fan to read your spam:Laurana’s in Qualinesti now, attending the funeral of her father and also trying to arrange an agreement with that stiff-necked brother of hers, Porthios, and the Knights of Solamnia.
I just got back from PLAY! A Video Game Symphony over at The Esplanade Concert Hall (in Singapore) and man, it was good! I had doubts at first about buying the tickets since I didn’t play most of the games on their programme, but listening and watching to the gameplay of those games that I did play was pleasantly nostalgic. Here’s what was played, with the games …
So there’s this big Leopard thing that’s the talk of Mac town (well, that and Safari) with all the new features being revealed (officially, at least, to the general public) at WWDC 2007.Some of the features are pretty cool, most of them are mundane. For me, I am really looking forward to:the new Finder - Finder sucks so bad as a file system interface. I use Path …
So what exactly is new in Safari 3 (other than the big OMGWTFBBQ over Safari for Windows)? TUAW has the best writeup (with screenshots of course) of the new features in Safari 3 I’ve seen so far. Check it out if you’re lazy to try it out - I did install the beta and took it for a test drive, but was never much of a Safari user to recognize what exactly did change …
One of the things us ex-Apache httpd or ex-Lighttpd users have to get used to when installing nginx is how there isn’t built-in FastCGI support for process spawning. While these means nginx is more lightweight and faster, it does mean that you have to manage your FastCGI processes yourself.Having just upgraded to Ubuntu Feisty Fawn, I set to installing nginx and tried …
Pardon the self-promoting cross-linking: Toilets and Linux evangelism (or what we use to build Bezurk) is an entry I just posted on the brand new Bezurk Blog about how the toilet is a good place to spread the word. If you’ve found other neat ways to use the free Ubuntu stickers (or even the Apple stickers that comes with iPods), do post it!
Just in case anyone runs into this problem (which, I might add, would probably go away when either the portfile is updated or the source mirror fixes the problem) while installing ImageMagick via MacPorts…While trying to install Rmagick on my spanking, new, glossy, kakkoii MacBook, MacPorts reported a checksum error with the ImageMagick source tarball:Target …
The Rails Envy guys have come up with a spoof of the Mac versus PC commercials. Yes, it’s Rails vs Java. Go watch it or catch it straight on YouTube.
I’ve never much blogged about anime before so it’s probably a little known fact around here that I’m a huge anime fan. One of the anime series I’m watching now is Lucky Star, an anime adaptation of a 4-panel comic strip by from Kyoto Animation. This being the same studio that produced the excellent The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, I knew I had to …
So it seems DHH was inspired by the Sexy Migrations plugin (which in turn was inspired by Hobo) and committedchangeset 6667.Now, you can do this:create_table :products do |t| t.integer :shop_id, :creator_id t.string :name, :value, :default => "Untitled" t.timestampsendSuccinct!
Some of the latest Firefox 3 aka Minefield trunk builds include Growl integration! This is probably a non-event for anyone other than Mac users, but hey Growl notifications without needing …
It’s been ages (well, almost 2 years, but that’s a lifetime in Internet time) since Firefox Secrets was published and I figured I should probably live up to being the “Firefox book” guy (in Singapore). I’m gonna start posting Firefox tips and pointers at least twice a week (hopefully I don’t run out of material!) And instead of using the …
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 …
I never really fancied download accelerators but Axel is different - it’s a command line application and is naturally significantly more lightweight then those graphical download managers I’ve stopped using since 1996 (teh intraweb was slower then, and I was sucking bits of it through a state of the art 33.6kbps dial-up modem).I’ve been using wget for its …
I haven’t been following Thunderbird development like I used to so I was presently surprised to see how far Thunderbird has come when I tried a beta of Thunderbird 2 a while back (of course, Thunderbird 2 has been released for over a week, but I’m still clearing a backlog of blog drafts).One of the things I noticed was how Gmail POP integration is baked right in …
If you’re on edge Rails and are having problems starting script/console, it may be caused by spaces in your Rails working directory (see ticket 7955: Console environment load broken when RAILS_ROOT contains spaces). Basically the lack of quoting on RAILS_ROOT causes console.rb to pass incorrect paths to IRB (it gets split on the spaces in your directory path).Just in …
I’ve been using Autotest (part of the ZenTest package) while testing my Rails applications and never thought of asking for more. After all, getting my tests (well, specs actually) run automatically whenever I make a relevant change and having diff-level granularity on which tests Autotest re-runs is pretty damn useful enough. That is, until I came across this RSpec and …
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