MacBook Image

Posted on May 11, 2006 by joachim

After having seen lots of fake MacBook pictures, I thought I’d do one myself 🙂

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Upgrading to Ruby On Rails 1.1

Posted on March 29, 2006 by joachim

There is that little web app at work which was based on Rails 1.0 and uses the upload progress indicator. This feature was marked as experimental in the Rails 1.0 API documentation.

After upgrading to Rails 1.1 following the simple instructions in the Rails blog and restarting the Apache web server, the Rails app didn’t start up anymore. After a lot of useless thinking I stumbled upon this blog entry which solved the problem. If you use the upload prograss feature of Rails 1.0 and want to upgrade to Rails 1.1, follow these two steps:

  1. Run script/plugin install upload_progress (because the upload progress is now a plug-in)
  2. Remove ActionController::Base.enable_upload_progress from config/environment.rb

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iWork ’06 – First Impressions

Posted on January 31, 2006 by joachim

IWork06BoxToday, I received my copy of iWork ’06 and installed it right away. The size of the install DVD is only about 1.7 GB, so that’s way less than iLife ’06 which weights over 6 GB! The new features are nice, but nothing to get very exited about. Pages still can’t handle paragraph borders and the new 3D chart functionality is super slow if you don’t restart your Mac after installing iWork ’06.

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The status bar now shows current symbol

Posted on November 10, 2005 by joachim

Since ages I have been waiting for this feature: And finally, the function menu – a.k.a. symbol menu – has been implemented in my current Text/Code-Editor called TextMate. It’s like christmas in july 🙂

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Flock

Posted on October 23, 2005 by joachim

After reading the news about Flock on CNET News, I installed the social browser based on Firefox. Because I wanted to check out all its features, I signed up for a del.icio.us account since I already had all other web accounts needed to take fully advantage of Flock. It’s really nice to see how fast the bookmarks are synced with del.icio.us, it’s almost instantaneous. I’d love to see the .mac sync feature work that fast.

The blogging feature are beeing tested right now as I am typing this message with Flock. The blog API discovery works seamlessly, even WordPress blogs are recognised in spite of the missing RSD file link. I am wondering what kind of heuristic is used to determine the API link.

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Dashboard Annoyance

Posted on October 22, 2005 by joachim

DashboardMoreWidgets.pngThe Dashboard Widget Manager Apple introduced in Mac OS X 10.4.2 is nice but I also think they made it less obvious how to find and install new Widgets. Before Mac OS X 10.4.2 there was a button called “more widgets” which took you to the Dashboard Widget Download site. This button appeared when you clicked on the “plus” sign located in the right bottom corner of the screen.
Now, this button was removed and replaced with a “Manage Wigets…” button which has exactly the same functionality as the new “Widgets” icon in the widget bar which make the widget manager appear. Now, the user can click on the “More Widgets…” button because it was relocated inside the widget manager. That’s not very intuitive or efficient to me.

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Total Integration

Posted on October 16, 2005 by joachim

What do you think of it? I created a special theme for WordPress, so this blog fits visually into my website. As for the site navigation bar on the left, it’s a small PHP include directive which displays the site structure and highlights the current location.

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Good Beatles Cover

Posted on October 8, 2005 by joachim

Yesterday, I discovered a cover song from the Beatles classic “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” performed by the The Drowners on the iTunes Music Store. While this song is nice, I don’t like most of the other songs on the album it’s on. I preferred older albums like “Is There Something On Your Mind?” which is not in the iTMS.

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New snapmania release!

Posted on October 4, 2005 by joachim

We have just released a new version of snapmania which now features a blog posting module for individual images or web albums. Guess who developed this feature?–

Oh, and I forgot: Perl still sucks!

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Installing WWW::Blog::Metadata

Posted on August 28, 2005 by joachim

If you think you can just install the CPAN Perl module WWW::Blog::Metadata (v.0.02) by typing perl -MCPAN -e 'install WWW::Blog::Metadata' you would be wrong. Here is a quick tutorial to install the module in spite of all obstacles:

  • Install HTML::Tagset by hand, since the dependencies to this module are not well defined somewhere.
  • Try to install WWW::Blog::Metadata, it will fail because a test is buggy. Then, go to ~/.cpan/build/WWW-Blog-Metadata-0.02/t and edit the file ’01-extract.t’ on line 31: Change the ‘2’ to a ‘3’ at the end of the line.
  • Install WWW::Blog::Metadata again.

Perl sucks.

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