github
Wednesday, December 8th, 2010 Posted in *, Computing | No Comments »getting a local copy of a project....
Cryin
Thursday, February 11th, 2010 Posted in * | No Comments »B F# G#m D#m E B F# A E A E D A F#m B F# G#m E B F#m E A C F C A# F F# There was a time When I was so brokenhearted Love wasn’t much of a friend of mine The tables have ...
Controlling the GX700
Wednesday, January 20th, 2010 Posted in *, Instuments | No Comments »Can only control 4 params per patch by using midi CC. However any number can be controlled by sending sysex messages. ie F0 41 00 79 12 08 00 aa aa cs F7
Rails on Jaguarpc
Saturday, February 21st, 2009 Posted in *, RoR | No Comments »Setting up the redirects to point to the mongrel instance
Playlist
Thursday, February 5th, 2009 Posted in *, Songs | No Comments »Ready to sing 3:30 Refugee 3:30 Total Control 3:20 Runaway Train 3:40 No Time To Waste 3:20 When I Fall 4:30 Run to the water 4:40 Here Comes the Rain Again 3:30 Dream Catch Me 3:10 Learning to Fly Sleep the Clock Around Romeo and Juliet Black Muddy River On the Turning Away Potentials All ...
Commandline bulk filename change
Thursday, February 5th, 2009 Posted in *, Computing | No Comments »This command removes VLX09-Banners from the beginning of the name of a series of numbered files.
Run To The Water
Tuesday, January 6th, 2009 Posted in *, Songs | 1 Comment »B5 F#5 G#5 B5 B5 F#5 E F#5 B5 F#5 G#5 E G#5 F#5
Extracting exif data
Thursday, November 15th, 2007 Posted in *, Computing | No Comments »Exiftool. A set of perl scripts from http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/
I_shot_the_sheriff
Wednesday, September 19th, 2007 Posted in *, school | No Comments »I shot the sheriff
Flac to mp3
Wednesday, September 19th, 2007 Posted in *, Computing | No Comments »Use Max! http://sbooth.org/Max/
Downloading youtube or other flash vids
Sunday, April 29th, 2007 Posted in * | No Comments »Find the url for the actual vid file using Safari's Activity window. Copy paste to browser window. If necessary rename the downloaded file (add .flv at least) and play in vlc
Sync folder commaand
Saturday, April 28th, 2007 Posted in * | No Comments »rsync -auvzE "path from ~" iain@mimi.local
Applications Installed
Sunday, April 22nd, 2007 Posted in * | Comments Off on Applications InstalledApplications installed on my mac
Rails documentation
Monday, March 12th, 2007 Posted in *, RoR | No Comments »[code] gem_server [/code] Then go to localhost:8808
Ruby Regexp weirdness
Friday, February 16th, 2007 Posted in * | No Comments »/(\w+([-'.]\w+)*)/) To match words including ones with hyphens and apostrophes (O'Rielly Ruby Cookbook recipe 1.9)
Blood And Fire
Saturday, February 10th, 2007 Posted in *, Songs | No Comments »Who was I when I could sing this?
Singing book
Tuesday, January 9th, 2007 Posted in *, Watch out for | No Comments »The complete vocal workout, Roger Kain
Test Driven Development
Thursday, January 4th, 2007 Posted in *, RoR | No Comments »Notes for intro to TDD demonstration for Ncl Rug
Blog bundle behind a proxy
Wednesday, January 3rd, 2007 Posted in *, RoR | No Comments »In textmate preferences create the shell variable TM_HTTP_PROXY wwwcache.ncl.ac.uk:8080 Note that there must be no http:// at the beginning
Views
Sunday, December 31st, 2006 Posted in *, RoR | No Comments »Different places views are stored...
Photo site creation
Thursday, December 28th, 2006 Posted in *, RoR | 1 Comment »Photo site creation...
ssh setup
Wednesday, December 27th, 2006 Posted in * | No Comments »A few tricks to make ssh use easier..
Mail from macOSX
Wednesday, December 27th, 2006 Posted in *, RoR | No Comments »Things I have changed so far. Works at this point, but headers on delivered messages need cleaning up. [code] sudo launchctl start org.postfix.master [/code] Think this just tells it to start on bootup. Did this to get it going : [code]sudo ...
Rails Observers
Tuesday, December 26th, 2006 Posted in *, RoR | No Comments »Classes that monitor the lifecycle of ActiveRecord objects and run callback methods:
Useful rails plugin: file_column
Sunday, December 24th, 2006 Posted in *, Plugins, RoR | No Comments »file_column Does file upload.
Useful Rails plugin: acts_as_authenticated
Sunday, December 24th, 2006 Posted in *, Plugins, RoR | No Comments »acts_as_authenticated
Local gem documentation
Friday, December 22nd, 2006 Posted in *, RoR | No Comments »run gem_server then point your web browser at localhost:8808
Gems and plugins
Friday, December 22nd, 2006 Posted in *, Gems, Plugins | No Comments »Currently using several different extensions in my rails projects. These seem to work in 3 different ways:
Gem install as plugin
Friday, December 22nd, 2006 Posted in *, Gems, Plugins | No Comments »Haven't tried this yet.... From Ruby on rails e-commerce pg 199: Change current directory to the vendor/plugin directory of your project and run gem unpack acts_as_taggable. Then create a file containing the line require 'taggable' called init.rb in the acts_as_taggable folder. I ...
Dreamer…
Friday, December 22nd, 2006 Posted in *, Quotes | No Comments »but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, and make it possible.
Rails Tests
Wednesday, December 20th, 2006 Posted in *, RoR | No Comments »There are 3 types, unit, functional and integration....
Rails assigns helper
Wednesday, December 20th, 2006 Posted in *, RoR | No Comments »Very hard to find documentation on this. RoR E-Commerce pg 51 says: Assigns is a test helper method that can be used to access all the instance variables set in the last requested action. Makes a lot more sense if I ...
Rubygems when you are behind a proxy
Tuesday, December 12th, 2006 Posted in *, Gems | No Comments »Set HTTP_PROXY [code] HTTP_PROXY=wwwcache.ncl.ac.uk:8080 export HTTP_PROXY [/code]
Rubygems when you aren’t root
Tuesday, December 12th, 2006 Posted in *, Gems | No Comments »This gives the procedure
Database Access optimization with ActiveRecord find
Sunday, December 10th, 2006 Posted in *, Computing, RoR | No Comments »add the include parameter....
File Upload in Rails
Sunday, December 10th, 2006 Posted in *, Computing, RoR | No Comments »The file_column plugin is an easy way to add file uploading.
On the turning away
Tuesday, October 31st, 2006 Posted in *, Songs | 1 Comment »On the turning away From the pale and downtrodden
Saigon guitars
Saturday, October 28th, 2006 Posted in *, Guitar | No Comments »Yesterday I odered 3 Bass guitars from Äuc Ngân. First step :-) Also found a really good maker. When I first went in his shop he was quiet, didn't respond much and I couldn't tell if he was happyy ...
The Game
Monday, October 2nd, 2006 Posted in *, Songs | No Comments »The Bar was dark and quiet and still
Lord Anthony
Monday, October 2nd, 2006 Posted in *, Songs | No Comments »Anthony, bullied at school
L-Systems
Monday, October 2nd, 2006 Posted in *, Computing | No Comments »An l system is defined by a triplet G = (v,w,P) where:
Irreverence
Sunday, October 1st, 2006 Posted in *, Quotes | No Comments »"Irreverence is the champion of liberty and its only sure defense." Mark Twain
xXx
Sunday, October 1st, 2006 Posted in *, Quotes | No Comments »"If you're gonna send someone to save the world, make sure they like it the way it is.
Hurdy Gurdy
Sunday, October 1st, 2006 Posted in *, Gurdy, Instuments | No Comments »Bought plans from Nic Nourse for Marchand 1775 model. Started some time in September 06. No real problems so far building the body. Paid £60 to get the shaft, bearings, wheel bush and handle made (Handle shank is just a ...
String gauges and scale length for baritone guitar
Saturday, September 30th, 2006 Posted in *, Guitar, Instuments | No Comments »Typicaly 700mm scale lenth with strings one step up from standard guitar eg: 014 018 028 040 050 070 Can be between 680mm and 760mm acorrding to Hago Or 27in to 30in according to Wikipaedia
Another girl another planet
Tuesday, September 19th, 2006 Posted in *, Songs | No Comments »I always flirt with death
Test of Vietnamese
Tuesday, September 19th, 2006 Posted in * | 2 Comments »con voi mà u hồng Keyboard input doesn't work properly when set to vietnamese, the above was cut and paste from elsewhere....
Hex
Tuesday, September 19th, 2006 Posted in *, Watch out for | No Comments »Sky 3 9pm thursday. Gemima Rooper...
Richard Bach
Monday, September 18th, 2006 Posted in *, Quotes | 1 Comment »Never stop being a kid. Never stop feeling and seeing and being excited with great things like air and engines and sounds of sunlight within you. Wear your little mask if you must to protect you from the world but ...
Runaway train
Monday, September 18th, 2006 Posted in *, Songs | 1 Comment »Call you up in the middle of the night Like a firefly without a light
Learning to fly
Monday, September 18th, 2006 Posted in *, Songs | 1 Comment »Into the distance, a ribbon of black Stretched to the point of no turning back
Romeo and Juliet
Monday, September 18th, 2006 Posted in *, Songs | 1 Comment »A lovestruck romeo sings a streetsus serenade Laying everybody low with me a lovesong that he made
Along came a spider
Monday, September 18th, 2006 Posted in *, Quotes, Thoughts | No Comments »We are what we do. No, we do what we are. Give back power. Reaches hand out to rescued child and says "could you?"