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Negative look behind regular expressions in Ruby 1.9 7 Oct 2012 | 06:44 pm
Negative look behind is available with the new Oniguruma Regexp engine of Ruby 1.9 - here are a few use cases of it. Starting of easy: A) You are looking for a needle in a haystack, that is followed...
The Many Aspects of Ratio 1 Jan 2012 | 07:20 am
Have you ever wondered why so many movies come in different screen sizes? These various sizes are called "aspect ratios" and are industry standardized media formats. An aspect ratio is the relationshi...
How to Create QR Codes For Android Market Apps 27 Dec 2011 | 02:22 pm
Have you wondered how to create those nice QR codes to link directly to Android market apps from your blog article? Go to www.sparqcode.com, then click on APP STORE in the menubar on top. tags: andr...
What is Virtualisation? 20 Dec 2011 | 01:18 pm
The topic of virtualisation is a the forefront of many techies' minds. Virtualisation is a product that enables computers to use up fewer resources with increased output. These two benefits are ob...
Top 5 Android Apps For a Better HTC Desire HD 6 Aug 2011 | 10:41 am
The HTC Desire HD phone is a particular nice Android smartphone, but the HTC Sense interface has some flaws. Here is my list of top 5 free apps I have installed on my HTC Desire HD to replace stock a...
A Multithreaded Job Queue For Ruby (on Rails) [3] 15 Aug 2010 | 09:31 am
I have a Ruby on Rails application with a rapidly growing database of currently 50,000 jobs per day to be executed. Each jobs fetches data over the internet and takes about 1-10 seconds to execute. Th...
Something not so nerdy today... 6 Aug 2008 | 11:06 am
Found this via the blog of my favorite indie t-shirt label online shop. Roland Brueckner's website, featuring scanned postcards with extraordinary hand made drawings from the artist himself. Here's t...
Deploying Rails (2.0) to Mongrel with Capistrano 2.1 [10] 26 Oct 2007 | 10:52 pm
Capistrano 2.1 includes some major improvements over the 1.x branch, so everyone should start using it right away. Yet it doesn't work with Mongrel out of the box and it's most likely not backwards co...
Gaming with Boot Camp on the MacBook Pro 6 Aug 2007 | 11:06 am
Boot Camp in Leopard has gone beyond beta and turns the MacBook Pro into excellent gaming hardware for the casual gamer. Not so long ago when I first installed Boot Camp beta I was surprised to find ...
Old, ugly Fish and other Technologies 12 Jun 2007 | 09:30 pm
After watching Steve Jobs’ Keynote address on WWDC 2007 it gets more evident to me to me what many people are already thinking: technologies and scientific theories are much like items of pop culture....
