Fri 25 July, 2008

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There’s this reFresh
but there’s also this reFRESH
The latter is apparently celebrating their 50th anniversary. Perhaps the “creatives” should try a little harder to find a more creative name.
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Tip Butterfly needle
If giving blood makes you light headed or even pass out, ask that a butterfly needle be used rather than a straight needle.
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“ Being an intellectual means more than doing your homework. ”
William Deresiewicz
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“ There are two types of programming languages: the ones that people bitch about and the ones that no one uses. ”
Bjarne Stroustrup
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More REST/CRUD conventions
class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base def self.set_resource(resource, &custom_setter) filter_name = :"set_#{resource}" before_filter filter_name, :only => [:show, :edit, :update, :destroy] if custom_setter define_method(filter_name) do custom_setter.call(resource) end else define_method(filter_name) do instance_variable_set( "@#{resource}", resource.to_s.classify.find(params[:id]) ) end end end def self.default_formats_for(data) respond_to do |format| format.html format.xml { render :xml => data } end end end class AccountsController < ApplicationController set_resource :account def index @accounts = Account.all default_formats_for @accounts end def show default_formats_for @account end end
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“ He is a jolly and amiable fellow to meet, yet he is also a lone scarred tree, for the lightning of living has hit him. ”
Sinclair Lewis on Hemingway
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Paul Otlet was a Belgian who predicted the Internet in 1934
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The deadline looms for submitting proposal for an Ignite Phoenix presentation.
I confess I’ve not yet submitted mine. Party that’s because I’m in NYC more preoccupied with my friends and family than the usual geekitude, but also because I want to be sure I pick something I can cover in a crisp, informative, entertaining manner.
I have some ideas, and one in particular that is leading the pack, but I thought perhaps I should do some crowdstorming (or maybe it’s braincrowding or outbraining or socialcrowding or …) and ask whomever may be reading this:
What Should James Present at Ignite Phoenix?
Note that the talk needs to be short, as in ~5 minutes.
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add to furlMon 21 July, 2008

Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Social stuff: 6:15pm
Presentations: 7:00pm
Boulders on Broadway
530 W Broadway Road
Tempe, AZ 85282
Google map: http://rubyurl.com/SKAU
See http://www.refactorphoenix.com for details
This months general topic:
Relevance Linking Outperforms Popularity Linking; Arkayne.com Has The Numbers
Find out how technology like Amazon EC2, Django, and Ruby On Rails are pushing the performance of semantic link relevance past basic popularity ranking.
Paul Kenjora will explain how the Arkayne.com widget is leveraging these technologies to deliver a 2% – 80% click-through on suggested links for blog posts.
It’s going to change the way bloggers promote articles and its all getting started right here in Phoenix.
Refactor Phoenix is a monthly non-denominational gathering of desert geeks, dedicated to the open exchange of information in a casual environment.
We meet on the 4th Wednesday of each month.
If you’re a (coder|programmer|software engineer|hacker|developer), Refactor Phoenix is for you.
For more information, please see
http://www.refactorphoenix.com
or contact me at
james@happycamperstudios.com
(602) 714-1148
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There won’t be a Living on the Edge this week, but you won’t be starved for info because the Rails community is keeping up.
Ryan Daigle has been keeping up with some of the changes on edge Rails and has done a few awesome explanatory posts on them:
- Easy memoization with ActiveSupport::Memoizable
- Nested model mass assignments
- Metaclass accessor (aka the eigenclass)
Perhaps even more noteworthy is the introduction of I18n (internationalization) support to Rails core. Sven Fuchs explains the technical details and API as well as the history of Rails and I18n. I18n support is scheduled to be fully stable in the Rails 2.2 release. Have an interest in internationalization in Rails? Lend a hand with your ideas, feedback, and patches at the Google Group.
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Dank an Peter Zimmermann, Datenschutzbeauftragten des Landes Baden-Württemberg für sein Eingreifen.
Dank an die Schweden für ihr Eintreten für Grundrechte.
Dank an Pfizer für die Forschung, die zur Entdeckung des Doxycyclins führte.
Dank ans Doxycyclin, das einen an Schützen erheblich Geld sparen lässt.
Dank an die Bäckerei Eisinger fürs Frühstück.
Dank an Izmir Pizza & Döner fürs Abendessen.
Dank an Norbert Gälle für den Böhmischen Traum.
Dank an alle, die auch Montag, Dienstag, Mittwoch da waren.
Unwort des Jahres: wasserdicht
.
Bis nächstes Jahr wünsch’ ich euch eine
Scheene Restschütza!
NP: Cinema Strange—Mathilde in the Dirt
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The schedule for RailsConf Europe sessions have now been made public. If you still haven’t signed up to go, there is still time to make it. This is the last year we’ll be in Berlin, so it’s a great time to come by.
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add to furlFri 18 July, 2008

Schützenfest in Bild und Ton:
Böhmischer Traum (gar nicht vom Schützenfest, aber representativ.)
Wenn ich träum in der Nacht
träum ich immer von dir.
Du bist der Stern in dieser schönen Nacht,
und der Stern sagt zu mir ich bleib gerne bei dir,
bis dass der Morgen erwacht.
—Böhmischer Traum
NP: The Danse Society—Don’t Stop Now
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