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Recently I updated to the Snow Leopard, but I decided for a clean install (of course, again the last one).
I saved a list of all installed applications
ls -1 /Applications/ > my_apps.txt
in order not to forget what I used last week :) ..and here are the favourite ones:
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It is probably every developer’s dream to create a programming language. It is a complex and difficult task, so it will remain just an unfulfilled dream for many.
But there is a chance to create something simpler - a domain specific language (DSL). A language, that covers a specific (and limited) domain.
Ruby helps here a lot - to create a DSL is really simple and easy.
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A friend of mine asked me to help him to undelete music files from his iPod mini.
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I wrote down my favourite Firefox and Thunderbird add-ons (or plug-ins). Some friends of mine asked me several times.. here is it..
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I installed Ubuntu in a VirtualBox machine on OS X (pretty easy and straightforward), but to access a Mac harddrive from Ubuntu was slightly more complicated.
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One of the ways how to remotely control Firefox is to use the JSSh (JavaScript Shell) plug-in. To successfully install the plug-in, it is necessary to find a suitable version for your Firefox version (1.x, 2.x, 3.x) and platform (Linux, Mac, Win). That is sometimes not so trivial…

Additionally there is a limitation in the plug-in: its communication port number cannot be (easily) changed, so it is not possible to start more JSSh (and Firefox) instances.

First, the actual status is described, later a new version of the JSSh plug-in is provided with examples.

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Vim is my favourite editor. I search for tips from time to time - and there are still nice surprises. After a few years of using it, it is high time to write down my own list of useful tips :)

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A Ruby application that uses the ActiveRecord library (not a Ruby on Rails application) stopped working for me after an update of Ruby. The error message was:

undefined method `require_gem' for main:Object (NoMethodError)

The corresponding source code was:

require 'rubygems'
require_gem 'activerecord'

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I updated my WordPress installation to the version 2.3.x and found a new feature: tags.
I converted all my categories to tags (except the Uncategorized category) and… what I saw a small disaster :) All categories disappeared (an expected result), but the categories list in my sidebar contained only one, not very useful, item Uncategorized. Additionally a blog entry contained only Filed under: Uncategorized, again, not very helpful.

And then I realised - I have my own theme… arrrrgh…. and there is no tags to categories converter ;>
Well, here are steps how to update your own theme to support basic tags features:
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Téma lokalizácie a viacerých jazykov nepatrí medzi najzaujímavejšie :), hoc je potrebná v naších podmienkach lebo:

• RoR je len a len po anglicky
• naše trhy su malé - pre získanie viacerých zákaznikov treba prekročiť jazykové “hranice”

Prezentáciu som snažil vytvoriť ako manuál - na čo treba myslieť a čo treba spraviť. Súčasťou boli ukážky (ktoré väčšinou aj fungovali :).

Sľúbená prezentácia (OpenOffice, PDF) a ukážky: Simple SlovakRails (.zip, .tar.bz2), Gibberish (.zip, .tar.bz2) a Ruby-GetText (.zip, .tar.bz2).

P.S.
Samozrejme, koľko ľudí, toľko chutí - objavila sa kritika i pozitívny ohlas. Ďakujem za oboje. Kritikov len poprosim byť konkrétnejšími, lebo povedať len, bolo to zlé, nerobi dobré ani jednej strane - kritik sa prezentuje ako nedozretý a kritizovaný si z toho nič neodnesie.

Duplikovanie tém: Globalize - Saimon Moore v piatok. Áno, vedel som o tom. I organizátori boli upovedomení, ale dohodli sme sa na zaradení mojej prezentácie. Keďže táto problematika je dôležitá v našich končinách, nebolo zbytočné dozvedieť sa i o iných možnostiach - najmä keď ide o tak rozdielne riešenia ako Ruby-GetText a Gibberish.