published over 3 years ago (29.01.2006 22:37)
some time ago i started making a list of countries and cities i want to visit. maybe not in the near future, but in this life. i keep adding to it … just today, another eight places joined the list.
maybe i should rather put together a list of places i don’t want to see – it might end up being shorter.
p.s.: i’ll start working off the travel list this july :-)
published over 3 years ago (27.01.2006 16:26)
“You are never dedicated to something you have complete confidence in. (No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They *know* it’s going to rise tomorrow.)
When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kinds of dogmas or goals, it’s always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt.”
from “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintainance” by Robert M. Pirsig
published over 3 years ago (27.01.2006 16:17)
… wasn’t too hard, thanks to the rake migrate command and typo’s nice upgrading system, which slash7 had pointed to.
conversion of all mysql tables to InnoDB didn’t work at first. since i’m still on mysql 4.0 the upgrade script 15 and the ruby on rails’ create_table method failed. they both use the ENGINE keyword for specifying the table type to use. in order to get things to work, i had to replace ENGINE with TYPE.
btw. typo claims that running off the latest trunk revision is no problem thanks to the extensive test coverage. however most of those tests had some failures on my box; well, let’s see what happens - typo seems to be running fine. it _is_ a little awkward that you have to keep tests up to date with the latest code changes; maybe they just forgot.
warning: before running tests, make sure you have configured different databases for test and production environments, otherwise you production database will be gone!
published over 3 years ago (26.01.2006 14:03)
“A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing” – Alan Perlis
published over 3 years ago (25.01.2006 01:05)
françoise cactus and brezel göring deliver finest trash, as always. who else could fit a rolling stones cover version, christiane f, chelsea girls and rendezvous with marsmen onto one single album? this time more electro than ever though; which sounds good.
for a first taste, just read the song names. for a second one – samples of every song available in the itunes music store.
published over 3 years ago (21.01.2006 13:48)
today i migrated my site from a home-brewn php/one-html-page solution to the ruby on rails powered weblog typo (which is not to be confused with typo3). what had to be done:
all of this took about twelve hours to complete. more than half of the time was spent preparing the webserver — finding out what was needed to get ruby and lighttpd work together over fcgi.
if you’d like to see conversion scripts, take a look at the extended content of this post.
try ruby if you like – an interactive ruby shell that runs directly your web browser.
you could also visit why’s hilarious blog, or his poignant guide to ruby, where you’ll find many more cartoon foxes!
published over 3 years ago (11.12.2005 00:00)
published over 3 years ago (06.12.2005 00:00)
and yes, i'm officially infected.
published over 3 years ago (03.10.2005 00:00)
hey! since i migrated this page from php to the ruby-based weblog typo, these images currently don't update.
all of these great photos have been taken by the flickr contributors, not by me. hover over an image to see the name of the photographer; click the image to see the full image in flickr.
kudos to rasmus for developing & donating the php flickrAPI. Oh, and the programming language, of course :-)
you can download the source code here. enter your flickr api key and the secret, and you're ready to go. (note: i don't cache the favorites info, that would be a nice addition).
published over 3 years ago (11.09.2005 00:00)
Google keeps presenting more and more innovative products and services – GoogleMaps, GoogleEarth, G(oogle)mail, Picasa, and so on. Incredible how creative and productive a couple of incredibly smart nerds can be.
Their latest product, which isn't yet mentioned on the products page, pioneers biointerface work: it's all about information digestion improvement. If you're too dumb to understand that info you just found with Google Search, have a drink. In fact, a beautifully packaged drink: Google Gulp (I recommend beta caroty).
If we only had enough of it, I'm sure people would stop complaining about Google becoming the next evil empire, and the world would finally become a better place. thank you, google …
i just redid this document, now there's only one html page with all the stuff instead of several documents loaded in separate IFRAMES. frames are bad, IFRAMES aren't much better.
thanks to an all-css design & javascript to display the large images, it was a matter of 45 minutes. in firefox. did i already mention internet explorer sucks? well, for some time the site will be a mess in ie, and several things probably won't work. just contact me if you need sth.