PointlessOne http://pointlessone.org Changes are coming Mon, 18 Aug 2008 15:18:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 en Saltillo - A hair on the head of John the Baptist http://pointlessone.org/2008/08/18/saltillo-a-hair-on-the-head-of-john-the-baptist/langswitch_lang/en/ http://pointlessone.org/2008/08/18/saltillo-a-hair-on-the-head-of-john-the-baptist/langswitch_lang/en/#comments Mon, 18 Aug 2008 15:18:40 +0000 Cheba http://pointlessone.org/?p=894

I'm totally in love with track.

]]> http://pointlessone.org/2008/08/18/saltillo-a-hair-on-the-head-of-john-the-baptist/feed/langswitch_lang/en/ Present http://pointlessone.org/2008/08/15/present/langswitch_lang/en/ http://pointlessone.org/2008/08/15/present/langswitch_lang/en/#comments Fri, 15 Aug 2008 12:00:21 +0000 Cheba http://pointlessone.org/?p=882&langswitch_lang=en
Photo by quakebum2k

The Sun gifted me glorious headphones. Sony MDR V700DJ. Sound is wonderful. Fit superbly. Thanks a lot!

]]> http://pointlessone.org/2008/08/15/present/feed/langswitch_lang/en/ Site5 offers Rails hosting http://pointlessone.org/2008/08/13/site5-offers-rails-hosting/langswitch_lang/en/ http://pointlessone.org/2008/08/13/site5-offers-rails-hosting/langswitch_lang/en/#comments Wed, 13 Aug 2008 16:31:22 +0000 Cheba http://pointlessone.org/?p=880&langswitch_lang=en Well, basically that’s all they do.
They have ruby, rubygems and a few gems installed. Also they have a control panel for managing ruby stuff. Have RubyGems manager. But it’s unable to list installed gems, unable to install gems. It’s completely broken. You have to hack a lot in terminal to have an opportunity to install and use other gems.
Next, they have a section for managing rails apps. It can create a new rails app. And… And that’s all. It can not even start that app. It doesn’t generates deploy config. It’s just useless.
BTW, they don’t even think about running mongrels/thins/ebbs/whatever. They are thinking about a single instance on fastcgi.
Next, support. They’re very polite but ignorant. “Is your computer turned on?”. As a solutions they give links to forums where users write “guides” and nothing from site5 itself.

Conclusion: get a slice for same money instead. You’ll be pleased.
BTW, with any VPS you’ll get an opportunity to run not only Rails apps but virtually anything. Like Merb apps.

]]> http://pointlessone.org/2008/08/13/site5-offers-rails-hosting/feed/langswitch_lang/en/ Nency Sinatra - Bang Bang http://pointlessone.org/2008/08/11/nency-sinatra-bang-bang/langswitch_lang/en/ http://pointlessone.org/2008/08/11/nency-sinatra-bang-bang/langswitch_lang/en/#comments Mon, 11 Aug 2008 12:48:24 +0000 Cheba http://pointlessone.org/?p=871&langswitch_lang=en

I was five and he was six
We rode on horses made of sticks
He wore black and I wore white
He would always win the fight

Bang bang, he shot me down
Bang bang, I hit the ground
Bang bang, that awful sound
Bang bang, my baby shot me down.

Seasons came and changed the time
When I grew up, I called him mine
He would always laugh and say
"Remember when we used to play?"

Bang bang, I shot you down
Bang bang, you hit the ground
Bang bang, that awful sound
Bang bang, I used to shoot you down.

Music played, and people sang
Just for me, the church bells rang.

Now he's gone, I don't know why
And till this day, sometimes I cry
He didn't even say goodbye
He didn't take the time to lie.

Bang bang, he shot me down
Bang bang, I hit the ground
Bang bang, that awful sound
Bang bang, my baby shot me down...

]]> http://pointlessone.org/2008/08/11/nency-sinatra-bang-bang/feed/langswitch_lang/en/ “the results … are undefined” http://pointlessone.org/2008/07/29/the-results-are-undefined/langswitch_lang/en/ http://pointlessone.org/2008/07/29/the-results-are-undefined/langswitch_lang/en/#comments Tue, 29 Jul 2008 09:36:36 +0000 Cheba http://pointlessone.org/?p=867&langswitch_lang=en Kill anybody who’ll write that in spec.

Specification: An explicit set of requirements to be satisfied by a material, product, or service.

I was reading ruby-core mailing list when I stumbled this message about
Improving the metaprogramming facilities of Ruby. It proposes to introduce some changes to Ruby spec regarding instance variables access. The problem is that almost any of proposed changes ends with the silly “the results … are undefined”. Even currently there’s no complete spec for Ruby. The only MRI is a “golden implementation” but still not fully documented and it still has its bugs. Thanks to guys from Ruby-Spec project for their effort on creating complete spec suit to ensure that all alternative implementations are compatible. Anyway, how implementations can be compatible if their behavior is undefined in some cases?

Side note: W3C should also eliminate any undefined behavior for implementations.

]]> http://pointlessone.org/2008/07/29/the-results-are-undefined/feed/langswitch_lang/en/ Pidgin MozConv: first progress http://pointlessone.org/2008/07/24/pidgin-mozconv-first-progress/langswitch_lang/en/ http://pointlessone.org/2008/07/24/pidgin-mozconv-first-progress/langswitch_lang/en/#comments Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:43:33 +0000 Cheba http://pointlessone.org/?p=862&langswitch_lang=en I’ve managed to load Mozilla into Pidgin converstaion.

Google in Pidgin

]]> http://pointlessone.org/2008/07/24/pidgin-mozconv-first-progress/feed/langswitch_lang/en/ Big Ideas (don’t get any) Nude remix by James Houston http://pointlessone.org/2008/06/08/big-ideas-dont-get-any-nude-remix-by-james-houston/langswitch_lang/en/ http://pointlessone.org/2008/06/08/big-ideas-dont-get-any-nude-remix-by-james-houston/langswitch_lang/en/#comments Sun, 08 Jun 2008 13:02:06 +0000 Cheba http://pointlessone.org/?p=858&langswitch_lang=en The coolest remix ever. Plus a good video for it.

Get Flash to see this player.

And here is the original song by Radiohead - Nude.

Get Flash to see this player.

]]> http://pointlessone.org/2008/06/08/big-ideas-dont-get-any-nude-remix-by-james-houston/feed/langswitch_lang/en/ Firefox Download Day 2008 http://pointlessone.org/2008/05/29/firefox-download-day-2008/langswitch_lang/en/ http://pointlessone.org/2008/05/29/firefox-download-day-2008/langswitch_lang/en/#comments Thu, 29 May 2008 11:45:11 +0000 Cheba http://pointlessone.org/?p=855 Download Day 2008

Set a Guinness World Record. Enjoy a Better Web.

Sounds like a good deal, right? All you have to do is get Firefox 3 during Download Day to help set the record for most software downloads in 24 hours - it’s that easy.

]]> http://pointlessone.org/2008/05/29/firefox-download-day-2008/feed/langswitch_lang/en/ NDIA: application configs in repository http://pointlessone.org/2008/05/22/ndia-application-configs-in-repository/langswitch_lang/en/ http://pointlessone.org/2008/05/22/ndia-application-configs-in-repository/langswitch_lang/en/#comments Thu, 22 May 2008 09:34:14 +0000 Cheba http://pointlessone.org/?p=854&langswitch_lang=en Never put application configs in repository. Put there config examples with a explanations in comments instead. That will help users to configure the application better then rewriting teir config on each update.

PS: NDIA - Newer Do It Again

]]> http://pointlessone.org/2008/05/22/ndia-application-configs-in-repository/feed/langswitch_lang/en/ Rails power. Use with caution. http://pointlessone.org/2008/05/16/rails-power-use-with-caution/langswitch_lang/en/ http://pointlessone.org/2008/05/16/rails-power-use-with-caution/langswitch_lang/en/#comments Fri, 16 May 2008 12:24:59 +0000 Cheba http://pointlessone.org/?p=853&langswitch_lang=en I’ve found a few lines of code that make use of Rails’ method returning. I’ve seen it on the Errtheblog before and thought that it can be useful but someone will misuse it for sure. So here it is.

def feeds_list
returning([]) do |feeds|
BLOGS.each do |blog|
feeds < < feed_url_for(@app_name, blog)
end
end
end
Why do people do such things if there’s Array#collect

def feeds_list
BLOGS.collect do |blog|
feed_url_for(@app_name, blog)
end
end

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