http://pointlessone.org Changes are coming Mon, 18 Aug 2008 15:18:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en var FO = { movie:"/wp-content/flash-mp3-player/mediaplayer.swf",width:"450",height:"20",majorversion:"7",build:"0",bgcolor:"#000000", flashvars: { author: 'Saltillo', file: 'http://s3.amazonaws.com/pointlessone-che-music/Saltillo/Saltillo-Ganglion-2006-FWYH/05%20-%20A%20Hair%20On%20The%20Head%20Of%20John%20The%20Baptist.mp3', title: 'A hair on the head of John the Baptist', backcolor: '0x000000', frontcolor: '0xffffff', lightcolor: '0xffffff'}, }; UFO.create(FO,"player-894-1"); I'm totally in love with track. http://pointlessone.org/2008/08/18/saltillo-a-hair-on-the-head-of-john-the-baptist/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/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 ... http://pointlessone.org/2008/08/13/site5-offers-rails-hosting/langswitch_lang/en/ var FO = { movie:"/wp-content/flash-mp3-player/mediaplayer.swf",width:"450",height:"320",majorversion:"7",build:"0",bgcolor:"#000000", flashvars: { author: 'Nancy Sinatra feat. Billy Strange', file: 'http://storage.roach.org.ua/music/misc/01-Nancy%20Sinatra-Bang%20Bang%20(Feat.%20Billy%20Strange).mp3', image: '/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/cover.jpg', title: 'Bang Bang', backcolor: '0x000000', frontcolor: '0xffffff', lightcolor: '0xffffff'}, }; UFO.create(FO,"player-871-1"); I was five and he was six We rode on horses made of sticks He wore black and ... http://pointlessone.org/2008/08/11/nency-sinatra-bang-bang/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 ... http://pointlessone.org/2008/07/29/the-results-are-undefined/langswitch_lang/en/ I've managed to load Mozilla into Pidgin converstaion. http://pointlessone.org/2008/07/24/pidgin-mozconv-first-progress/langswitch_lang/en/ The coolest remix ever. Plus a good video for it. Get Flash to see this player. var FO = { movie:"/wp-content/flash-mp3-player/mediaplayer.swf",width:"450",height:"273",majorversion:"7",build:"0",bgcolor:"#000000", flashvars: { file: 'http://storage.roach.org.ua/music/radiohead/nude/big-ideas.flv', image: '/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/nude.jpg', backcolor: '0x000000', frontcolor: '0xd6d545', lightcolor: '0x40b54d'}, }; UFO.create(FO,"player-858-1"); And here is the original song by Radiohead - ... http://pointlessone.org/2008/06/08/big-ideas-dont-get-any-nude-remix-by-james-houston/langswitch_lang/en/ 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/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/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| ... http://pointlessone.org/2008/05/16/rails-power-use-with-caution/langswitch_lang/en/