August 27th
Because scaffolding isn’t the answer to everything, i made a personal generator that churns out some CRUD actions with the RSpec tests that are just the way i like them.
Posted here mainly for reference by future-me but anyone else is welcome to use them too.
Generate Rails controller code
I find it’s particularly amusing if you enter [...]
August 20th
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Okay, i cheated because i did it earlier on today and only got about 30! There are about 90 in total. It’s quite surprising the ones you forget, when under pressure, where in every day usage you’d just use it when you needed it. And then there are some that you’ve never learnt [...]
August 4th
A reference for myself, and possibly for future people who may want to know how to do this.
Suppose you have a Git submodule, and you checked out a branch by its SHA1 ID because it had no branch name or tag where you want it. Later you want to know which SHA1 ID you checked [...]
July 22nd
I learned today that UK phone number area codes are more than just random numbers. They are *actually* coded areas. This works for most 5-digit area codes beginning 01 … the next number (or often two numbers) contain a reference to the area. Here are some that i know:
01962 - 96 = WN for Winchester
01622 [...]
June 21st
So i hear now is a good time to upgrade Ruby!
Unfortunately i downloaded 1.8.6 patch 230 and it gives an error trying to start up the web server. Does anyone know what this is about?
*** glibc detected *** double free or corruption (out): 0×0000000000daabc0 ***
Aborted
Looks like a C warning about memory deallocations or corruptions. I’m [...]
June 13th
I feel i have settled in extremely well at my first week of my new job. I love the people, the environment, the work we do … it’s fun and enjoyable, challenging, inspiring, makes me feel worthwhile. Most of the week i have been learning and paring with others, watching what they do, asking questions [...]
June 7th
Beryl provides neat 3D desktop features, and Emerald is a beautiful window decorator.
Acknowledgement: this information came from debianadmin.com. I am reproducing it here for two reasons. Firstly, it’s nice to have my ultimate personal Debian setup guide all in one place. Secondly, the page i got it from has so-called “smart-quotes” which would confuse the [...]
June 7th
I got most of this information from the Debian wiki but it is a little complicated, so here’s a summary of the way it worked for me. This method involves a re-build of the kernel, but it’s not as scary as it sounds.
Read more of How to configure Nvidia graphics card in Debian…
May 2nd
I don’t know why i always end up doing these things on Friday evenings.
This is nominally part of my ongoing series of how to get my perfect Debian set-up, just so that if i ever have to reinstall again i’ll know how to get my computer back the way i like it.
Download Pidgin source code [...]
April 22nd
Komika bildo ke mi ĵus trovis ĉe xkcd:
Mi konfesas, mi ofte scivolas kio estas la efektiva kialo de kordoteorio …
(Sorry i’ve been in a major Esperanto mood for the last few weeks since i discovered the Esperantists in Second Life! I promised my blog won’t go entirely Esperanto!)
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