July 2011
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The Portal Bag by rainingandawake on Etsy
via etsy.com This is totally awesome. Posted via email from Christopher Meiklejohn | Comment »
"Doctor Who" Doctor Who Ride in Dalek at BBC Shop
http://media.venda.com/bbcshop/ebiz/bbc/images/video_samples/kap_daleks_treai…” /> via bbcshop.com Could this be the best thing ever; I think so. Posted via email from Christopher Meiklejohn | Comment »
June 2011
4 posts
In the Spotlight with Corey Haines on Vimeo
via vimeo.com Inspiring and really truthful talk on testing by Corey Haines. Posted via email from Christopher Meiklejohn | Comment »
SpacialDB
via spacialdb.com Up and comer; integrates with Heroku, lots of promise. Posted via email from Christopher Meiklejohn | Comment »
Pushing: Facebook, Flickr, Etsy « Code as Craft
via codeascraft.etsy.com Great article on pushing. Posted via email from Christopher Meiklejohn | Comment »
January 2011
1 post
Yammer on Linux; with Wine, it works!
If you are a Yammer user, you probably already know that Gwibber doesn’t have support quite yet for it, and the Linux version of Yammer hangs, or crashes, when you login or attempt to post. Since I need Yammer on a daily basis for communication with co-workers about deployments and such, I needed to find a way to get this working under Linux. The solution, wine. To get this going,...
October 2010
1 post
T-Mobile G2
Got my HTC G2 yesterday from Radio Shack (3 days early!) It’s been great so far! I’ll keep you posted. Posted via email from Christopher Meiklejohn | Comment »
September 2010
1 post
Mongo, Mongo_Mapper and Mongo_Session_Store in...
In getting this to work, I had to figure out just the right sequence and requirements in my Gemfile. Here it is for everyone: # Rails gem 'rails', "3.0.0" # Mongo gem 'mongo' gem 'bson_ext' gem 'mongo_mapper-rails3', :require => 'mongo_mapper' gem 'mongo_session_store', :git => 'git://github.com/nmerouze/mongo_session_store.git' Posted via email from Christopher...
August 2010
4 posts
rails 3 is out...forms broken?
I was just on master a few hours ago and now I’ve pinned to rails 3.0.0 and form_for is broken? Anyone else see this? Posted via email from Christopher Meiklejohn | Comment »
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Authlogic in Rails 3
In the process of hacking authlogic to work with rails 3, I discovered a little gem that I thought I’d pass along: It appears that the activerecord key method, which returns a primary key for a specific object, has been renamed to to_key, so the code needs to be adjusted accordingly: http://github.com/cmeiklejohn/authlogic/commit/749c46c 1 2 3 def to_key new_record? ? nil :...
Rails 3 Doesn't Autoload Modules In Lib
Rails 3 doesn’t autoload modules/code in lib by default now. Here’s what you need to do to fix it. Add the following to your config/application.rb. config.autoload_paths += %W(#{config.root}/lib) Posted via email from Christopher Meiklejohn | Comment »
jrails status?
Anyone have any idea what the future plans or status of jrails is? Seems like a massively dead project for some reason? If it is, what should I be using instead if I need to preserve link_to_remote/sortable_element functionality with jquery in rails? Posted via email from Christopher Meiklejohn | Comment »
July 2010
21 posts
Quote from Anna Chapman's ex-husband.
He said he’s not surprised his former flame was accused of spying for Mother Russia, as she always had a deep love for James Bond films. via nydailynews.com Quote from Anna Chapman’s ex-husband. Posted via email from Christopher Meiklejohn | Comment »
GIANT ROBOTS SMASHING INTO OTHER GIANT ROBOTS:... →
Background When we start on new client projects or internal apps, we don’t always start the HTML/CSS buildout the same way. Sometimes a client has sketches; sometimes wireframes; sometimes they have a brand/identity in place already - there’s a big variety in what materials they come to us with….
Ian Bogost - Cow Clicker
via bogost.com Great article on social games. Worth the read. Posted via email from Christopher Meiklejohn | Comment »
Google expects to sell out of remaining stock of...
Google has told the L.A. Times it expects to sell out of its remaining stock of Nexus One phones by the end of July — which comes in about 10 days. Google gave no figures about how many N1s it received in the last shipment, and we’re in no position to guess. Maybe the news that it was taking down its online phone store jacked up the sales rate, or more likely Google didn’t get...
Flaw could expose 'millions' of home routers • The...
Millions of household routers are susceptible to a flaw that creates a handy means for hackers to hijack surfing sessions or hack into home networks. Craig Heffner, a researcher at security consultancy Seismic, is due to detail the flaw and release a proof-of-concept tool at the Black Hat conference in Vegas later this month. The DNS rebinding-related security flaw affects kit from Linksys...
SCADA System’s Hard-Coded Password Circulated...
A sophisticated new piece of malware that targets command-and-control software installed in critical infrastructures uses a known default password that the software maker hard-coded into its system. The password has been available online since at least 2008, when it was posted to product forums in Germany and Russia. The password protects the database used in Siemens’ Simatic WinCC SCADA...
Manpacks / Simplify the basics with a flexible...
Check out this website I found at manpacks.com Uhm, really? Posted via email from Christopher Meiklejohn | Comment »
Yahoo! Bringing an Official Fantasy Football App...
Since 2008, Android users have been bawling about the lack of quality fantasy football apps available on the Android market. CBS tried their shot at providing their own app for the platform they run, but it was introduced with a world of bugs and eventually became obselete as going to the browser to do your bidding proved to be much easier. Other third party apps have come out to...
Incredible: NASA needs Postgres - Nagios help
NASA needs Postgres - Nagios help From: “Duncavage, Daniel P. (JSC-OD211)” <daniel.p.duncavage@nasa.gov> To: “pgsql-general@postgresql.org” <pgsql-general@postgresql.org> Subject: NASA needs Postgres - Nagios help Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 11:14:51 -0500 Message-id:...
Back Orifice CDs infected with CIH virus - ZDNet
UPDATED 6:33 PM PT Cult of the Dead Cow confirmed Thursday that official CD-ROM versions of its controversial Back Orifice 2000 program are infected with the CIH virus. “There must have been a virus on the duplicating machine and we didn’t know about it,” cDc member DilDog said in a phone interview. “This incident is unfortunate and we are doing what we...
General Dynamics Tadpole Computers - bullfrogv2
FEATURES AND ADVANTAGES: Powerful Performance and Processing: 1.2GHz UltraSPARC-IIIi, 1 MB level 2 Cache with 256MB-8GB memory Solaris 8 (and above) Operating Environment Full-length PCI slot supporting Windows co-processor, network adaptors, high end graphics and many other options State of the Art Mobility: Mobile server consolidation - the 28 lbs Bullfrog...
Fixing slow login when using X-forwarding in SSH...
After upgrading to OS X 10.6.3 I started having some really strange issues when trying to log into Linux or FreeBSD boxes. When I would run the command it would hang for about a minute or two after I typed in the password. When running in verbose mode I saw it was hanging at the xauth command. $ ssh -vvvY tst-srv ........................ tstuser@tst-srv's password: debug3: packet_send2:...
'The Expendables' Trailer HD
via youtube.com Most epic movie ever. Posted via email from Christopher Meiklejohn | Comment »
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To ensure our developers have access to a phone with the latest Android OS, Google will be offering the Nexus One through a partner for sale to registered developers. Visit the Android Market Publisher site and log into your developer account to purchase a Nexus One. via google.com Yay! Posted via email from Christopher Meiklejohn | Comment »
SwiftKey > Swype on N1
via gaj-it.com This is quite amazing — blows Swype away. Give it a try if you are a N1 user! Posted via email from Christopher Meiklejohn | Comment »
Rdio for Android (beta) is here “Hey, when’s... -...
via blog.rdio.com @rdio Installing Android App Beta as we speak! Posted via email from Christopher Meiklejohn | Comment »
The Overbite Project @ Floodgap -- Bringing Gopher...
Overbite for Android brings Gopher support to your Android 1.5+ mobile phone or device. Seamlessly browse and switch back and forth between the Web and Gopherspace, with full integration with Android features such as support for multiple devices and resolutions, screen zoom, Home screen shortcuts and portrait and landscape orientations. Handles gopher:// URLs from the Browser automatically!...
@mixestmusic Mixest -- new service to help you...
Mixest.com provides a great new web service that helps indie artists submit their music and get heard by people who are looking to listen to indie radio all day. It’s pandora, but with less choice and only indie artist-submitted songs. Check it out! Posted via email from Christopher Meiklejohn | Comment »
@Ommwriter / Writing Software
via ommwriter.com Ommwriter is a pretty neat idea. Although, along the same lines as Writeroom (which is just a glorified full screen VI for less savvy mac users, in my opinion), it provides a very streamlined, minimal approach to helping you focus and just write — not worrying about formatting, or other social web-2.0 distractions. What makes this software rise above the rest is...
Matias Tactile Pro 3
via matias.ca If I wasn’t constantly on the move, I would totally be rocking one of these keyboards. I don’t know how I didn’t know this existed sooner. Posted via email from Christopher Meiklejohn | Comment »