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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!”

Given what I have previously written about SOA, I really like these facts.

For some reason, there has been very little fuss over the fact that TextMate now offers code completion for Ruby using the rcodetools gem. It is all still in svn, so you have to check it out manually.

Log for r6455

[NEW] The Ruby bundle now includes an rcodetools-backed completion command on option-escape.  This command is capable of very accurate completion for any accessible Ruby objects and methods, without needing to see you type it first (as TextMate’s default completion requires).

Once I got my hands on my new MacBook Pro, I did what mostly everybody else does - I bought a copy of Parallels Workstation for Mac. I need it mainly for running local servers so I can do demos of server environments etc.

For various reasons, we (Valtech) bought the license from the local retailer at the same time as the laptop. Big mistake. You see, if you buy Parallels from a local retailer in a non-english speaking country, you get a special, international, version. This version is not downloadable from the site, and has it’s own line of activation keys, so you cannot use the regular downloads from the site.

For a long time, I’ve wanted to make the switch and start using online apps, but there has always been reasons that have kept me back. It seems that Dion and I share the same opinion on this one, and he sums up the problem very well.

If I could ask for one thing in Leopard, it would be the ability to answer Exchange invitations directly from Mail.app. As it is now, I either have to use the heavily dysfunctional non-IE Outlook web interface or fire up Entourage for the sole purpose of clicking ‘Accept’.

I spent yesterday evening at Javaforum. Ola Bini held a great presentation of JRuby that really showed what can be accomplished today and what we can expect in the future.

Ola is not only an über hacker, he is a great guy too. When asked what work is done with Ruby in Sweden today, he was kind enough to mention the work we’ve done at Valtech with Rails, which of course got him a well deserved beer later.