OSCON is a happy place for me. It’s my third OSCON, and I created good memories at each one. At my first OSCON, I was showing off RubyCLR to the world, and I met some folks from Microsoft who convinced...
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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

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Gas Panic

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“ Being an intellectual means more than doing your homework. ”

William Deresiewicz

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The Johnny Cash Lawsuit Song

Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci

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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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Users of Apple’s MobileMe have put up with a lot over the past couple of weeks since the service was launched. Many of these problems have to do with the availability of the service; for example, as I’m writing this, a number of people have been without access to their MobileMe e-mail accounts for several [...]
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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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無事、福岡到着。 そういえば福岡神殿での結婚式には、私ははじめて出席するような気がする。 今日は三組も結婚式があった。私が出席したのは二組目だったのだが、 直前の式(こちらは私の知人の知人)と、私の出席した式とでは 同じ結婚式とは思えないくらい雰囲気が違っていたのが印象的だった。 やはり当人たちのキャラクターが大きく影響するのだなあ。 友人たちは車で帰るが、私はRBC設立1周年記念セミナーに参加するため、福岡に残る。
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友人の結婚式に参加するため、 夜から車で移動開始。 夜型の私にとって、夜の移動は 車は少ないし、 涼しいし、大変気分が良い。 明日の朝には到着するんではないかと。
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ホテルに居たら家族からSkypeがかかってくる。 しかし、こちらの音声が入力できない。 スピーカーから自分の声は聞こえるのに、 先方には届かない。 どうもデバイスがおかしいようだ。 arecord -vv -fdat /tmp/sound.wav としても録音が行われない。 検索しても似たようなトラブルを経験している人はいるが、 解決策は見当たらないようだ。 snd-hda-intelに適切なoptionを指定すればいいんだろうか。 追記 うえはらさんから情報をいただいた。 alsamixerのcaptureを有効化することで問題は解決した。 同じ問題にぶちあたる(かもしれない)..
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I don’t have any details, but I just got an email from my church saying we were robbed last night. What sort of person robs a church? My first thought upon hearing this was “Man, I hope this guy rots in hell for this” but upon further consideration, that’s probably not the Christian thing, is it? [...]
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Ease Back

Amos Lee

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Soft 404 by Kari Altmann

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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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自己所在的团队正在寻找第二位网站开发人员，欢迎自荐/推荐。 —– 多背一公斤(1KG.org) 是一个创新的社会企业，我们关注公益的创新和传播，致力于通过大众的参与为乡村带来可持续...
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I just finished watching Act III of Dr. Horrible’s Sing-a-Long Blog and it was very powerful. The end was not what I was expecting, I can tell you that. I don’t want to spoil anything, but don’t look for the cliché; it’s not there. The writing and acting in this short were both top-notch. As [...]
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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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I just bought two, count ‘em, two new 22″ Samsung 2232BW+ LCD monitors for my office. That’s them in the photo below. I am replacing two 21″ CRT’s that weigh about 100 pounds each; one was a Sony and the other was a Nokia. They were both good, but they were starting to get old, they took [...]
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近所のツタヤが旧作一本100円というキャンペーンをしてたので、 子供のビデオ(アンパンマン、ポケモン)と一緒に借りる。 前回テレビで放映した時に、なんかの用事で 最後の15分くらい見逃していたからだ。 そしたら、ちょうど今晩テレビでやるんだってさ。なんてこった。 まあ、いいや。 で、先取りしてみてたら、 やっぱり最後10分くらいで用事が入って見れなかった。 なんかの呪いか。 結局、日付が変わる頃に最後まで見たけど。 面白かった。でも、未来までは「走っていく」のは難しいと思うな。
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なんだかんだで未処理のメールがたまっている。 私から返事がこないな、と思ってる人。 たぶん忘れてません。滞ってるだけです。 でも、かなりキューが長くなってるので、 リスケジュールを希望する場合にはメールで催促してください。 メールもらったことは覚えてても、 〆切は忘れてたりするし。
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活动时间及地点 日期：7月26号 时间：下午1:00 － 5:00 地址：中山西路1515号大众大厦15楼1号会议室（徐虹中路与中山西路路口） 乘车路线： 地铁4号线宜山路站下，4号口出，沿徐虹中路步行100...
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如果你在某个action中对Cookie进行了设置，然后你又打算对你设置的cookie进行测试，那么你可能会遇到麻烦，不妨看看下面这段代码： class CookiesController   def update     cookies[...
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I just checked my email and found this oh-so-exciting email from MICROSOFT EMAIL PROMOTIONS: MICROSOFT EMAIL PROMO:OFFICIAL PRIZE NOTIFICATION The MICROSOFT EMAIL PROMO TEAM is glad to announce that after a successful completion of the PROMO DRAWS on the 17th July 2008, your e-mail address,attached to winning numbers:(55) (73) (14) (41) (36) (29) won in the Tenth lottery category. You have [...]
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Schützenfest in Bild und Ton:

• WG Trommler

• Rund um mich her

• Schneeexpress

• 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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来週、21日から24日まで福岡。 21日、友人の結婚式 22日、RBC設立総会前夜祭 23日、RBC設立総会 24日(午前)、松江に移動 21日の夜とかならなにかできるかも ＞ 福岡方面の人。
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楽天で米澤先生による講義。なんてぜいたくな。 あと、技研の人たちと打ち合わせ。
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どうやら昨日、私のアドレスをFromに入れて スパムをばらまいた人がいたらしい。 大量のエラーメールやら不在メールやらが届く。 これらは文面がスパムとは違うのでフィルタに引っかからない。 困ったものだ。 考えてみると、これは結構巧妙だ。 エラーメール、不在メールは「犠牲者」に届くのでスパム業者のトラフィックを圧迫しない 実在のアドレスなのでメールサーバによるブラックリストに引っかからない domain-keyはそれほど普及していない 攻撃を受ける方としては迷惑極まりないが。
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Several months ago a friend recommended a show on the USA network called Burn Notice. I didn’t get around to watching it until about two weeks ago. I wish I’d taken his advice sooner, since this show is great. It’s about a former spy who gets burned by his agency. He is trying to find [...]
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Act II of Dr. Horrible’s Sing-a-Long Blog was release today, and it’s just as funny as Act I. Once again, the music is great and the story is getting very interesting. I was talking with a friend about it, and we both wish it were going to last longer than three episodes. Maybe if Joss [...]
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