Posts Archive

"Tim Bray is my hero of the day. So many other people would defend their brainchild, especially a world conquering one, in any situation but Tim clearly stands above such behavior. Any Damn Fool: “… we designed XML as a document format. When the world gleefully seized upon it as a data-packaging/RPC tool, that was OK, but I doubt you could get any of XML’s original designers to disagree with the statement that JSON, for example, has all sorts of advantages for wrapping up short-lived strongly-typed data."

"I’ve previously mentioned that I’ve unsuccessfully tried to migrate my personal domain to Google Apps. I also blamed Google for it not working. I was wrong. It seems that Textdrive has some nifty Apache security going on which denies the Jakarta HttpClient to connect, returning a “412 - Precondition Failed”. Big thanks to Doug for finding this out."

"I am getting all parts of my Rails development environment settled. In addition to vanilla Rails, I am currently using RSpec, Selenium and Autotest. I am seriously considering Haml and Sass as well. When googling arounf to learn more about Autotest, I realized that people are using together with Growl. It works out-of-the-box with Test::Unit, but RSpec needs a little tweaking. I took the basics from here and modified to my liking."

"We’re using Google Apps at Re:mind which is really, really great. So great in fact that I wanted to move my private mail there as well. So after setting the domain up, I created the webpage that was needed for domain activation, put it on my server, clicked the “verify my domain”, and got the usual “this may take 48 hours to complete” It has now been almost two weeks or something like 300 hours, slightly more than 48."

"Spring surprised us early this year, so we are currently blessed with a mild 10ºC. As everyone who has ever experienced it knows, the early days of spring after the long dark winter are just wonderful The photo is taken with my SE K610i, and stitched together with DoubleTake, which deserves a mentioning. I noticed today that I had lost my license for it, so I sent an email to EchoOne explaining the situation."

"I almost forgot to mention it, but I have a new job. Again some might say. After being a consultant for 1.5 years with Valtech Sweden, I am back in startup land. This time it is really, really startup. We registered our domain last friday, we do not have a web site yet, we are all sitting in one room on broken chairs. Ok, one broken chair. Mine is actually the good one."

"I am starting a new development project where I will do a lot of coding myself, at least initially. There will most probably be times when I have to work offline - perhaps a litte evening coding while at vacation with my family, definitely the days when I am home because the kids cannot be at kindergarten. So I had this initial thought - can I make a offline copy of the Subversion repository, make changes to it and merge it back when I come online again?"

"I am trawling for a hosting company and came across this gem of a web page: The page won’t load at all if Javascript is disabled, has no doctype, won’t render umlauts in Firefox on Mac (and this is Sweden, we actually use them.) The final nail in the coffin is that it states “Web hosting for gourmets”."

"When everyone else is writing songs about their love for GMail, I am reverting to old school mutt. It is simply the fastest way to read and manage large amounts of mail (The Rails mailing list comes to mind). However, the default install did not work out for me, it mishandled international characters and formatting which made it unusable. After trying a bunch of options it finally came down to this:"

"My three year old son just managed to print something of the Backyardigans web site and yelled out “Dad! We got mail!”"