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Rails Envy Podcast - Episode #039: 07/23/2008

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.

Rails Envy Podcast - Episode #039: 07/23/2008

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.

Move Mail.app RSS Feeds to NetNewsWire

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.

I <3 San Francisco

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.

UPnP-MediaServer 1.0.0

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

1 major enhancement
- Birthday!

UPnP-ContentDirectory 1.0

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

1 major enhancement
- Birthday!

UPnP-ConnectionManager 1.0

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

1 major enhancement
- Birthday!

UPnP 1.1.0

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

Birthday and such

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

Foals - Cassius

Mr. Oizo - Patrick 122

Mystery Jets - Half in Love With Elizabeth

Daft Punk - Alive 2007 - Harder Better Faster Stronger

MGMT - Electric Feel (Justice Remix)

Justice - D.A.N.C.E. (MSTRKRFT REMIX)

Roisin Murphy - Let Me Know

Brand new tracks that I think are worth a listen:

Bloc Party - Mercury

N.E.R.D. - My Drive Thru

Guus, matey, precies een jaar geleden alweer gast, ‘k zal die dag nooit vergeten. Rust in vrede ouwe

Radiohead - Videotape

The Beatles - I’m Only Sleeping

RefactorMyCodeBook.com

Posted 1 day back at Marc-AndrÃ© Cournoyer's blog

You can now follow people on RefactorMyCode.com. Wow it’s like FaceBook + code snippets! Better get your mom an account!

You’ll then have a page with all stuff posted by your new friends and even an Atom feed.

To follow someone, simply go to their profile page and click on “Follow this user”.

Hope you like it!

Merb Routes

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.

Merb Routes

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.

OpenMoko Freerunner after a few weeks

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 :)

iPhone in nearly every state. 147 out of 188 stores.

Posted 2 days back at OnRails.org

From hasiphone.com July 22nd 2pm.

Rails Envy Podcast - Episode #039: 07/23/2008

In this episode:

Rails Envy Podcast - Episode #039: 07/23/2008

In this episode:

Move Mail.app RSS Feeds to NetNewsWire

I <3 San Francisco

UPnP-MediaServer 1.0.0

1.0.0 / 2008-07-23

UPnP-ContentDirectory 1.0

1.0.0 / 2008-07-23

UPnP-ConnectionManager 1.0

1.0.0 / 2008-07-23

UPnP 1.1.0

1.1.0 / 2008-07-23

Birthday and such

Midnight Juggernauts - Into the Galaxy

Foals - Cassius

Mr. Oizo - Patrick 122

Mystery Jets - Half in Love With Elizabeth

Daft Punk - Alive 2007 - Harder Better Faster Stronger

MGMT - Electric Feel (Justice Remix)

Justice - D.A.N.C.E. (MSTRKRFT REMIX)

Roisin Murphy - Let Me Know

Bloc Party - Mercury

N.E.R.D. - My Drive Thru

Radiohead - Videotape

The Beatles - I’m Only Sleeping

Contrast and XLCRS - Ruby on Rails Podcast

Sponsor

RefactorMyCodeBook.com

Merb Routes

Merb Routes

OpenMoko Freerunner after a few weeks

iPhone in nearly every state. 147 out of 188 stores.