Posted 1 day back at Rails Envy - Home
Episode 039. This podcast was done live and in Portland, OR at OSCON, even though we don't talk about it at all. I love everyone.
The Rails Envy podcast is sponsored this week by Five Runs. FiveRuns provides Rails developers with a full stack of tools that helps them install, deploy, and maintain their web applications. Check them out at FiveRuns.com.
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Oh yeah, we were going to talk about is_ratable but didn't because there wasn't much to say. Check it out if you need a rating plugin.
Posted 1 day back at Rails Envy - Home
Episode 039. This podcast was done live and in Portland, OR at OSCON, even though we don't talk about it at all. I love everyone.
The Rails Envy podcast is sponsored this week by Five Runs. FiveRuns provides Rails developers with a full stack of tools that helps them install, deploy, and maintain their web applications. Check them out at FiveRuns.com.
Call Us! You can reach the podcast voicemail line at 407 409-8440.
Subscribe via iTunes - iTunes only link.
Download the podcast ~13:00 mins MP3.
Subscribe to feed via RSS by copying the link to your RSS Reader
In this episode:
Oh yeah, we were going to talk about is_ratable but didn't because there wasn't much to say. Check it out if you need a rating plugin.
Posted 1 day back at Jay Fields Thoughts
Like Dave Thomas, I recently decided to give Mail.app a try as an RSS reader. Overall the experience hasn't been great, but it wasn't poor enough that I thought the effort to switch was justified.
And then I decided to quit my job*. Next week will by my last week with ThoughtWorks and I'll need to turn in my laptop. I tend to store as much as possible online so this type of situation isn't a big deal, but going with Mail.app seems to have been a decision in the wrong direction. Maybe Mail.app stores my RSS feeds online somewhere, but it wasn't immediately obvious to me.
A quick google search revealed a Mac OSX Hint on how to dump your RSS feeds to the command line. This was quite helpful, but what I really needed was an OPML file that I could send to NetNewsWire.
I wrote the following script for anyone that finds themselves in the same situation. This script will grab all the feeds and write them to an OPML file. I'm sure it can be cleaned up or done more easily, but this works.
feeds = %x[IFS=$'\n';for i in $(find ~/Library/Mail/RSS/ -name "Info.plist");do grep "<string>http://" $i | sed "s/.*\(http[^<]*\).*/\1/";done].split("\n")
feeds = feeds.collect { |element| element.gsub(/<string>/, "<outline xmlUrl=\"") }
feeds = feeds.collect { |element| element.gsub(/<\/string>/, "\"/>") }
xml = <<-eos
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<opml version="1.1">
<head>
<title>mySubscriptions</title>
</head>
<body>
#{feeds.join("\n")}
</body>
</opml>
eos
File.open("mail_app_export.ompl", "w") { |file| file << xml }note: This file works in NetNewsWire, but I had better success by logging on to newsgator.com and importing on their website. When you import on their website it pulls the feed names and other information. The NetNewsWire didn't seem to pull the additional information.
*For those interested, I'm joining
DRW Trading.

Posted 1 day back at PJ Hyett
There’s something about this picture that encapsulates everything I love about San Francisco.

The eclectic mix of people, trading my car for public transportation (drop-top trolley!), views worthy of a Gap commercial, palm trees seemingly unaware of the cold, all the while heading towards the Farmer’s Market bringing back memories of growing up in the Midwest. There’s a bunch of internet people here, too, believe it or not :-)
Do yourself a favor and visit this city, I’ll be in North Beach if you want to say hi.
Posted 1 day back at Segment7
UPnP-MediaServer version 1.0.0 has been released!
A UPnP MediaServer. Currently a work in progress. Only tested on a
PlayStation 3.
Changes:
1.0.0 / 2008-07-23
Posted 1 day back at Segment7
UPnP-ContentDirectory version 1.0 has been released!
A UPnP ContentDirectory service with some DLNA extensions. Currently this
is a work in progress, and is only adequate for viewing images on a
PlayStation 3.
Changes:
1.0.0 / 2008-07-23
Posted 1 day back at Segment7
UPnP-ConnectionManager version 1.0 has been released!
Stub implementation for a UPnP ConnectionManager service. Currently has no
implementation. Works great for a PlayStation 3.
Changes:
1.0.0 / 2008-07-23
Posted 1 day back at Segment7
UPnP version 1.1.0 has been released!
An implementation of the UPnP protocol
Changes:
1.1.0 / 2008-07-23
- 2 major enhancements
- Server support
- SSDP now supports sending advertisements
- 1 bug fix
- Gem dependencies now listed
Posted 1 day back at Ninh's Weblog
Woohoo, my calendar tells me that it seems that I’ve turned 23 years old today and so far, I’m loving every minute of it. Well, maybe not every minute since my phone has been buzzing since the early morning, which has something to do with ‘caring’ friends who thought it’d be a good idea to text/call me at 04:00AM… Thanks for that… I’ll be sure to return the favor
Also, I’ll be sure to put up some pictures from our sushi aftermath. For now, you’ll have to do with some of the birthday boy’s favorite tracks (well, at least for now
)
Midnight Juggernauts - Into the Galaxy
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Can’t get enough of this track after listening to Justice’s live mix
Foals - Cassius
<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/A3lWbPEOJp0&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/A3lWbPEOJp0&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>
Mr. Oizo - Patrick 122
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Ed Banger never seizes to disappoint me
Mystery Jets - Half in Love With Elizabeth
<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/aFk1GD9Z8KM&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/aFk1GD9Z8KM&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>
Didn’t really like their performance at London Calling, but this is an entirely different story right here. Very 80s, which can __NEVER__ be wrong
Not even Rick Astley wrong
Daft Punk - Alive 2007 - Harder Better Faster Stronger
<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/oGECJP3phyY&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/oGECJP3phyY&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>
(Thank you so much Gwenny for dragging my emo ass to that memorable event back then! In retrospect, wouldn’t have wanted to miss that for the world
)
MGMT - Electric Feel (Justice Remix)
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Even though the original is okay, the justice remix just has more oomph to it if you ask me
Speaking of justice…
Justice - D.A.N.C.E. (MSTRKRFT REMIX)
<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/36GoJluHXlY&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/36GoJluHXlY&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>
Oh man, MSTRKRFT’s live set at 5 days off this year… Pure awesomeness! That’s all I can say
Right Gwenny?!
Roisin Murphy - Let Me Know
<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/0_vCOOW_BsE&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/0_vCOOW_BsE&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>
What can I say, Roisin Murphy, loved her since Moloko
Brand new tracks that I think are worth a listen:
Bloc Party - Mercury
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N.E.R.D. - My Drive Thru
<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/GPZ5fnYFI4Q&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/GPZ5fnYFI4Q&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>
Guus, matey, precies een jaar geleden alweer gast, ‘k zal die dag nooit vergeten. Rust in vrede ouwe
Radiohead - Videotape
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The Beatles - I’m Only Sleeping
<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/jAh77NRWgJM&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/jAh77NRWgJM&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>
Posted 1 day back at Ruby on Rails Podcast
Consulting firm Contrast talks about their upcoming app, Exceptional. Mike Gilbert of XLCRS talks about using Rails to solve everyday problems.
From Dublin, Ireland.
Sponsor

Posted 1 day back at Robert Evans - Home
Here’s a quick rake task for you, if you want to see merb routes without having to do merb -i
desc "Show routes"
task :show_routes => :merb_env do
require 'merb-core/rack/adapter/irb'
Merb::Rack::Console.new.show_routes
end
In terminal, just do rake show_routes. If you are looking for something specific, you can always do rake show_routes | grep user.
Posted 1 day back at Robert Evans - Home
Here’s a quick rake task for you, if you want to see merb routes without having to do merb -i
desc "Show merb routes"
task :merb_routes => :merb_env do
require 'merb-core/rack/adapter/irb'
Merb::Rack::Console.new.show_routes
end
In terminal, just do rake merb_routes. If you are looking for something specific, you can always do rake show_routes | grep user.
Add that to the Rakefile in your root dir, or better yet, use sake and do:
sake -i http://gist.github.com/raw/1406/bfec026a1e62b048288d9342e3fc0c2bd272fca7
Then you can do sake show_routes in any merb app dir! That’s served up straight from gist, github’s newest pastie based on git.
Posted 2 days back at Wolfmans Howlings
Well I have had this thing for a few weeks now, and I have burned a lot
of hours playing with it :) (Wish I could bill someone for those
hours it would have paid for the phone 4 times over!)
I started with 2007.2 the built in image, and upgraded it initially
with dfu-util, then with opkg update && opkg upgrade.
I installed a bunch of things and tweaked it to death (literally).
I got Jalimo
java installed and working, and wrote the simple SWT app which worked nicely.
The only change to the instructions are you need to add
-force-depends to the opkg command.
As reported in my
other blog article
I got WIFI/WPA2 working, and finally got GPRS working.
I have not tried to pair with a bluetooth headset yet, although got
far enough to see that the device could be seen using the scan
command.
I played with all the varieties of on screen keyboards available, but
really couldn't use any of them as they are so small, and my eyes are
not that good anymore. I have seen some promising mentions of works in
progress for keyboards, but the ones in the Qtopia distribution are
the best, plus they have handwriting recognition which is a little
fussy but looks like it can be trained.
The GPS problems were fixed by an amazing community and OpenMoko
effort, which I have never seen before. There is a S/W fix, and a H/W
fix which I suspect most people will not be able to do, soldering
surface mount components is not for the faint of heart!
I spent several hours trying to build the OpenEmbedded and
the MokoMakefile development environments, so I could start to
contribute, but have still not been able to get them to finish
building the native toolchain needed to build any of the apps.
I get several errors, some of which I found workarounds to by googling
but eventually hit dead ends in both cases which I could not solve and
have not been reported or solved by the community. I am using a stock
KUbuntu 8.08 Hardy Heron desktop, which should be pretty mainstream,
so I don't know what is wrong. The pre built toolchain OpenMoko
provides for building apps does work however, but you can't build
soft keyboards, or system components that route (at least I couldn't
find a way to do it). I'll continue to hammer away at MokoMakefile and
see if I can eventually get it going, of course I'll post my findings
to the Wiki or dev mailing list if I succeed.
If someone could provide a VMPlayer image of a working OE or
Mokomakefile environment that would help a lot of us.
(Trolltech/Qtopia do provide exactly that for their development
tools).
So after several opkg upgrades and tweaks, I finally killed my highly
customized rootfs, X would no longer boot, sound was dead etc etc.
I tried to backup the image using
these instructions,
but always got an error halfway through, I suspect my flash image of
rootfs may have been corrupted. Anyway I lost all that work :(
I tried flashing ASU, but it seems too much a work in progress more so
than 2007.8.
Then I tried
Qtopia
now this is much more to my liking. The interface is clean, intuitive
and seems to work pretty well. There are still a few rough edges which
Trolltech seem to be taking care of, but it mostly works pretty well. The
on screen input methods (which there are several of) are very good,
even the keyboard has a nice touch where it zooms into the keys you
are touching. It also has the tiny tiny QWERTY keyboard if you prefer
that style and your eyes still work.
The downside is of course you lose access to all the applications
currently under development for the GTK based 2007.2, but Qtopia does
have a growing number of applications, and of course you can write
your own.
I am going to experiment a little with trying to run GTK based apps
under Qtopia, I know I can do that on my KDE (aka QT) desktop, so why
not under Qtopia? I'll update this if I get it to work.
The current show stoppers for me, which stops me being able to use
this a phone are...
- Nasty buzzing noise on both ends of the call
- Bluetooth pairing with a headset not easily available.
I'm sure people are working on these issues, and I wait patiently for
them to get fixed so I can dump my aging Motorola V600. I'd actually
try to pitch in myself but I can't get the development environment to
work!
Oh well guess I better get back to my paying job :)
Posted 2 days back at OnRails.org

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