Caius Theory

As some friday fun in #geekup we ended up converting the US Marines Creed to a geekier version.

So, I keep having to reinstall mysql5 and rubygems from time to time for various reasons.

I finally wrapped up some code I’ve been meaning to write for a while, its a wrapper for the Google Translate API.

I ran across The Shell Meme on Lincoln Stoll’s blog, and figured I’d, uh, borrow it.

Lets imagine we’ve got an array of strings, and we want to print it out as a list of strings using printf.

Just a few examples of the same test written in a few languages.

Now I’m not one for blogging about events usually—if I’m attending one then I’ll just talk about it on twitter quite a bit beforehand.

When you upgrade to Mac OS 10.5.6, Mail.app might start crashing a few seconds after starting due to the GPG Bundle.

Theres a meme going round the blogosphere/twitterverse recently, so I figured I’d jump on it because there aren’t any pictures of me on this blog yet.

I decided to install ubuntu onto my iMac G3450Mhz G3, 768mb ram, 20GB Hard Drive to play around with.

The Domain Name This blog used to be located at SwedishCampground.com, but I ended up with a better use for that name, so this got sidelined over here.

Much like Rahoul’s post on knowing you’re on the right path, I had that moment this morning whilst we were discussing a future feature for our control panel. john: will I be able to superpoke our customers?

Usually for me this happens when I have an existing project and I setup a github repo for it.

I just came to move some ruby scripts onto my mac mini, and to do so I needed to install a couple of gems.

When I create a new rails app, I’m constantly going back to another project and stealing the .gitignore file from it to make sure that git doesn’t know about certain files rails either updates frequently, or stores machine-specific data in.

So for work I have to subscribe to a shared google calendar the company uses.

When I create a rails app from scratch I like to include certain plugins to help me write the app, such as the Rspec testing framework instead of the built-in Test::Unit and jQuery instead of prototype.

Back in the day I swapped the keys on my 12" powerbook keyboard around to read macgenius across the middle row.

This is just another example showing how I refactor code down to its bare minimum.

So I managed to secure a place to HabariCon ‘08.

So I’m at BarCamp Manchester for the day.

To search your php.ini file quickly and easily with the option to use regular expressions, I tend to drop back to the cli.

And now an example of how I write my ruby code and get it down to the bare, readable, minimum code needed.

Issue Can’t use merb sessions with datamapper & mysql, get back an error about needing an id on the text column or something (I had the error a couple of days ago.)

So mother (who can’t program) just posed me the question Why is Ruby your favourite programming language?

So I just saw this in my twitter stream: peterc: Warning UK drivers.. councils get powers on March 31st to give you parking fines for infractions they see on CCTV!

Interesting email arrived in my inbox today.

Just joining the band wagon in posting up my twitter statistics.

No not my computer, me.

I was just talking to Nadim about him getting a new camera and then this happened: Nadim: http://cyraq.deviantart.com/art/Above-the-Clouds-72170767 Nadim: Did you see that?

So I’m a geek, as my friends are gradually realising more and more.