Seven steps

I came across this beauty in some old code of mine: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 def same_modality?

I received an email from sensei on Monday (sent to every student) - if you'll be here tonight, bring your fighting gear.

An auto-vivifying hash is a hash that lets you create sub-hashes automatically.

I found a <a href="http://innig.net/software/ruby/closures-in-ruby.rb">script</a> that explains everything really well.

Wow.

I feel kinda bad plaintexting this..

I am watching Rocky III and IV (the only ones I really like), and the driving theme is the power of the human spirit.

It was surprisingly good.

So tonight, I went to train 35 minutes away from home, at the dojo where my sensei's sensei teaches.

I had a good time in the dojo tonight.

If you've done any kind of table display in Rails, you've probably discovered the useful 'cycle' method: <tr class="<%= cycle("even", "odd") %>"> This works after you've set two CSS classes between which you want to alternate - in my example, even and odd,

I live on an island.

Caveat: This adapter may only work with the enterprise edition of Sybase (i.e.

Default passwords for MSSQL, Sybase, and mySQL: , , , That's right..

Just a link to a page..

1 2 sudo apt-get install libmysqlclient15-dev sudo gem install mysql Easy!

Taken straight from <a href="http://www.eclips3media.com/workshop/2008/10/installing-the-mysql-gem-on-os-x/">this blog</a> in a terminal..

Those two videos have been brought to my attention within maybe two weeks of each other, and I hate thinking of random coincidences..

In the past couple of weeks, I'd gotten to spar progressively harder with a blue belt who is twice my age, but has been in dojos where sparring and self-defense were more important than kata.

A friend of mine wrote about shoulder relaxation..

So, I've been trying to keep my stances down a lot more now - it's making me much more aware of when I get tense..

Tonight we had training on stances.

As is, this code will create an array of arrays - Directories with the same 6 first characters will be grouped in the same sub-array.

Erik Veenstra created two scripts, tar2rubyscript and rubyscript2exe, which essentially grab what you wrote, wrap it up with some other code, bundle it with the ruby executable, and spit out a finished, executable package - which will run on that same OS –

Well, sensei hinted last month that maybe I should start gearing up for a nidan test.

This is actually a lot simpler than I expected (gimme a break, this is my second foray into VBS!)

Taking the code from <a title="Permutations in Ruby and Python" href="http://abachman.disqus.com/simple_permutations_in_python_and_ruby/" target="_blank">this other blog</a> … It's pretty elegant Ruby!

This week two more students tested.

I'm taking this from <a href="http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/archives/932-Dealing-with-corrupt-user-profiles-in-Vista-and-saving-the-contents.html" target="_blank">this page</a> but thought I should try to propagate it a little since it took me forever to…

On Monday I went to the dojo as usual, though I'd had a cold over the week-end and wasn't quite over it (I'm still not over it now..).

The MIM keeps 60 days by default.

Whoo!

Yesterday evening a man who trained about as long as sensei came to train with us.

Yesterday we had a small class, so we were able to each work on what we needed.

Monday and yesterday, two blue belts were to test for purple.

Is it a worrying trend that I write mostly about pain in here?

I don't know how I did it, but at some point during my empty hand class, I hurt my back.

We have a move in a form that requires holding a hand in front of the solar plexus.

Sparring can be one of the many reasons one wants to join a martial arts school, sometimes even their only interest.

So, you've decided to start taking a martial arts class.