rss
I found out about http://www.wimp.com last year, and have been watching their daily videos ever since. Its a simple website that offers 5 or 6 daily videos on a range of topics, such as science, comedy and innovation. And thats all there is. No bells and whistles,
git
Follow these steps to get git 1.7 + on ubuntu 9.10 or less. (10.04 comes with the latest version) sudo apt-get install libcurl4-dev # (for new http[s] support) cd /tmp wget http://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-1.7.2.1.tar.gz tar -xf git-1.7.
compaq-evo-t20
I've finished most of the work I'm going to do on my shell.fm ruby server. Its written on sinatra + jquery + jquery-ui (so, a lot of ajax calls). It also requires my custom shell.fm fork if you want the volume control to work. You can
bugfixes
Every programmer makes mistakes.. But every so often though, you make those mistakes that really mess things up. I just made two of them, and feel like a right n00b. Both mistakes simply involved overwriting ActiveRecord methods. The first time, I made an update method in my model. And just
git
It seems that for every single git repository I create, I just want to be able to run "git push" and "git pull". "git pull origin master" just gets annoying after a while. In case I forget how to do this again, this is
gimp
UPDATE: Theres an easier way to do this here: http://www.htmlcenter.com/blog/creating-a-favicon-for-your-website/. http://linuxproblem.org/art_19.html By Mathias Kettner : You need an image file that GIMP can open (PNG, GIF, etc.). And you need the command line tool ppmtowinicon from the netpbm-tools (on SuSE you
random
gimp
I needed a way to scan a lot of photos at once. I was going to write a GIMP plugin to extract out multiple images from a single scanned image of 3 or 4 photos, and then rotate them automatically. But as always, someone had already beat me to it
ruby
http://github.com/ndbroadbent/youtube_jukebox A ruby script that downloads youtube videos, converts them to mp3, and plays them in a vlc playlist as they are processed.
javascript
If you are using an older version of jqGrid because it comes nicely wrapped up in the jquery-grid-rails-plugin, keep in mind that all the demo code is written with the new API introduced in version 3.6. Fortunately, most of the demo code can still be reused with our version
ruby
Been a fan of jqgrid for quite some time, but wasn't looking forward to the struggle of getting it to work with Rails. Thankfully, someones already done it for me: http://www.2dconcept.com/jquery-grid-rails-plugin It did take a little while to debug some things that were going
linux
My Compaq Evo T20 running tinycore linux, playing shell.fm, displaying track info via lcd4linux on a Pertelian X2o40 USB LCD display. Uses music software Reaper to play audio and generate MIDI events. Midi events are sent to the 'output' of MIDI Yoke, which patches them to a