Caius Theory

Quit Google Drive app Rename ~/Google Drive/ to whatever you want Open Google Drive and wait for it to complain the folder is missing Click the menu item and click the warning item Click “Locate Folder..” button on the right in window that pops up Find yo…

One piece of a larger puzzle I’m trying to solve currently, was how to add a given URL to my Apple “Reading List” that is stored in iCloud and synced across all my OS X and iOS devices.

“Fun” triathlon (super sprint distance) done in Nantwich.

The writing group that Carole and Liberty belong to had a homework this month to write a Villanelle.

The device is a bluetooth to FM transmitter with Model number NEX-FMTX-BTCK.

In the UK currently we’re moving (slowly) toward the same sex marriage bill making it’s way into law.

Here be hax.

Here’s a few things I refactor as I write code down initially.

In a ruby script, there’s a keyword __END__ that for a long time I thought just marked anything after it as a comment.

Sometimes you need to have a rough idea of where your website visitor is located.

Having recently moved my Soundstick III’s into the front room, I’ve been thinking of a way to wall mount them safely to free up table room.

Using only song titles from ONE ARTIST, cleverly answer these questions.

That damned human affliction, Missing someone like an addiction, The cure’s quite simple, Like bursting a pimple, Hug them, hold them, repetition.

Into the past, with our regrets and tears, and our successes and cheers.

Dear future Caius searching for this issue, The apt package you need to install to use the capybara-webkit rubygem on ubuntu (tested on 10.04 and 11.10) is libqt4-dev.

OS X Lion comes with ruby 1.8.7-p249 installed, although it’s compiled against libedit rather than libreadline.

I remember watching Steve Jobs’ commencement speech for the first time and being fairly touched by the three stories he told in it.

Screaming ghouls and scary monsters, Permeating our subconscious, At night they roam freely through our dreams, With the sole intent of causing our screams, Scaring us until we awake, Annoyingly, for we know they are fake.

Any rubyist that’s defined a class should understand the following class definition: class Foo < Object end It creates a new Constant (Foo) that is a subclass of Object.

You and me, Quietly, Watching the rain in the stars, From a bubble near Mars.

A while ago I read a blog post that Elizabeth N wrote, on the value of writing self-serving code.

As of Xcode 4.2 Apple have stopped bundling GCC with it, shipping only the (mostly) compatible llvm-gcc binary instead.

I’ve had a dream for a while.

Imagine you’ve got a blogging app and it’s currently generating URL paths like posts/10 for individual posts.

This is a linked-in invitation I received from Rhys, and my reply.

Ever since I found out about the new hash syntax you can use in ruby 1.9, and how similar that syntax is to JSON, I’ve been waiting for someone to realise you can just abuse eval() for parsing (some) JSON now.

See the Update at the end before you get excited :( Having just installed 10.6.6 to use the Mac App Store, I was slightly annoyed that it fills my dock with apps as I install them.

There’s an article on the guardian about private phone numbers being uploaded from facebook, and another over techeye.net on the same subject.

If you’ve not heard of it, MacRuby is an implementation of Ruby 1.9 directly on top of Mac OS X core technologies such as the Objective-C runtime and garbage collector, the LLVM compiler infrastructure and the Foundation and ICU frameworks.

Ran into a problem today where I have a class with a few attributes on it, but I only want a certain three of those attributes to appear in the YAML dump of a class instance.

There’s a few useful shorthand ways to create certain objects in Ruby, a couple of obvious ones are [] to create an Array and {} to create a Hash (Or block/Proc).

Google Groups is a pile of fail and hasn’t posted my message in reply to a thread on Geekup so I’m blogging it instead.

I recently came across the at(1) command, and wondered why it wasn’t executing jobs I gave it on my machine.

I use a wonderful service for saving text to be read later, instapaper.com.

This is a something that occasionally makes the rounds again, I’ve not seen it for a while and I’ve added some new items since I last remember documenting it.

On a couple of occasions now I’ve wanted to read from STDIN into an Objective-C command line tool, and both times I’ve had to hunt quite a bit to find the answer because nothing shows up in google for the search terms I used.

Here’s how to access the self diagnostic / configuration menu on a Nissan Almera 2003 SVE (N16): Start the engine Turn the radio on Turn the radio off Hold the info button in then: Turn the volume knob up (clockwise) until: Diagnostic menu appears From he…

Recently I ran into an issue where I was working on a project which had files I wanted git to ignore, but I didn’t want to commit a .gitignore file into the project.

This is another old post that I’m republishing.

Here are some mac tips I know and consider “basic” mac knowledge, but no-one else seems to know. exposé key is on modern mac keyboards, looks like a load of squares on the F3 key. ⌘ + Exposé key => Show Desktop ⌃ + Exposé key => Show Application Windows ⌥…

This is a re-run of an old post I took offline in an old server move and hadn’t re-published.

Backstory: Got myself a first generation iPhone second hand and unlocked it to work on my existing T-Mobile (Official iPhone network in the UK is O2.)

At the 2009 Barcamp Leeds I attended a talk by Neil Crosby where he talked about automated testing, and about how he felt there was a gap in everything that people were testing.

So I’ve got some js I’ve written to update a couple of <select> lists in a form, and it was all working fine for me (under Safari.)

Before I start, I’ll just quickly run through where I put stuff on my server.

So I have this command in my $PATH, apachectl.

I happened to be sent a link to the OWASP paper on Rails Security recently and started reading it.

Updated 2009-06-09: This post is for the Safari 4 beta and will not work with the new Safari 4 released yesterday at the WWDC keynote.

So I just installed ruby 1.9.1 through MacPorts and wanted to easily migrate my rubygems across from 1.8 to see which ones would fail to install.

So I write this blog using Markdown because I’m a human and writing stuff <strong>with</strong> tags is just WRONG.