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Adding "facebox-for-prototype" to your rails 2.x application

2009-01-20T23:00:00.003+01:00

Just wanted to have the nice looking facebox which I discoverd on http://github.com/railsgarden/message_block in my rails application. With the first search I found facebox, but discovered that it works with jquery. As I use prototype I wanted to go for that and after a second short search I found facebox-for-prototype. Unfortunatly without tutorial, that's why I am writing this.Step 1: Get the

install rails plugins from git repositories without git

2008-12-14T18:17:00.002+01:00

In the last time, more and more repositories for rails plugins are maintained via git. Unfortunatly I am used to svn and not really interessted to use a *new* version control system.I tried to install git to get the plugins I needed. The installation worked, but to get plugins via git, did not work. So I played a little bit around and figure out, that you just have to replace "git://" with "http:

The power of javascript II

2008-12-06T12:06:00.003+01:00

On a previous post The power of Javascript I wrote some thoughts about javascript. It seems like there is going some projects on, regarding this. Interesstings seems to be http://aptana.com/jaxerCheers -- jerik

Raum Manager (de)

2008-09-03T17:57:00.003+02:00

Ein sehr interessantes tool zur Steuerung des automatisierten Wohnens: Room-Manager von ingénoive. Mit diesem gerät kann man die Heizung, das Licht und andere elektronsiche Geräte steuern. Interessant finde ich das man der Room-manager die präsens von anwesenden bemerkt. So wie ich es verstehe ist es möglich über das stromnetz die gerätschaften zu steuern. Super fände ich eine möglichkeit damit

Virtualisierung kann smart-home technologies fördern (de)

2008-08-21T19:52:00.002+02:00

Gerade auf Smartbrief.com gelesen. Sollte es nicht im idealfall ein system sein was alles steuert?Gruss -- jErik

Automatisiertes wohnen (de)

2008-08-20T18:24:00.002+02:00

Automatisiertes Wohnen - so taufe ich das was ich gerne bei mir daheim hätte. Darunter verstehe ich die nutzung der IT/Elektronik - auf unkomplizierte und einfache weise, um mir das leben in meiner Wohnung angenhmer zu machen.Derzeit sind zwei sachen realisiert und die dritte ist noch in der Warteschleife:Automatisches flurlicht - getriggert durch einen bewegungsmelder. Das ist inzwischen so

the power of scripting: launchy meets autoitv3

2008-05-15T12:29:00.003+02:00

Yesterday i discoverd AutoItv3. As I normaly like more the *nix systems, I have to say, this is awesome and make the windows plattform more productive in my eyes. With AutoItv3 you can automate erverything with which you interact on your desktop, like open outlook, write a mail, copy/paste text, ... . I just wrote two scripts for task that I normaly do within my job: record my work hoursEnter an

travel expense report - the ruby way of awk

2008-04-09T00:22:00.004+02:00

Today I managed it to make my travel expense report from my last trip. I was not realy excited to do this, as you can imagine, but this kind of job has to be done. In particular if you get money from your friends which enjoyed the trip with you. Starting to stare at the batch of paper and hoping that it would disappear if I would do this long enough, I though how to handle this stuff best, in

Hidding a dos box - the best hidden secret of windows

2008-03-27T21:22:00.007+01:00

Today I search a lot (in german we have the expression: "Ich hab mir einen Wolf gesucht" to describe this kind of searching), to get the information how to hide a dos box, the small black window which you need sometimes to do things on the computer. This was really a pain in the a**. Finally I found a working solution, after I spend hours for searching. sTitle = "Batch launcher"Set oArgs =

radio playlist on the bash

2007-12-28T20:27:00.001+01:00

Sometimes I hear a good song on the radio and I want to know whats the title. Here's my quickfix for the bash ;) function hr3( ) { w3m -dump "http://www3.admin.hr-online.de/playlist/playlist.php?tpl=hr3neu" }cheers -- jerik

the ruby way as business approach

2007-11-25T12:56:00.000+01:00

I just read some parts of the book 'Ajax on Rails', and I am impressed. Not only from the book, but more from the_ruby_way.It's impressive how they (the rails-developer) wrap complex code (in this case: javascript (ajax) ) that you need into smart and easy to use ruby-code (rjs).I wished this could be used as pattern in business as well. I don't mean the macro business issues, like generating new

The power of javascript

2007-09-27T23:57:00.001+02:00

The more I work on Windows and try to find a os-independent solution for scripting, I come to the solution that javascript could be a good script language to choose. There are other scripting languages out there which are more comfortable and you can do a lot more with then with javascript. But they have all one disadvantage:you have to install the interpreterWith javascript you don't need that.

Integrate windows desktop search into launchy

2007-09-14T16:49:00.002+02:00

If you have installed the windows desktop search on your computer, youcan integrate search into launchy with the runny plugin. Open theconfigure options of runny and type in: Command: wdsExecution: "C:\Programme\Windows Desktop Search\WindowsSearch.exe" /urlsearch-ms://query=$1And Add the command to runny. Confirm all dialogs and rebuild yourindex. After that, you can fire up launchy and type:

Office Tools - saving the knock off with pdftk

2007-09-14T10:14:00.004+02:00

A situation out of the office: Short before knock off, you get the taskto add a coverpage to an existing offer. What do you do? If you try toedit the word document you get in trouble, cause in this situations wordtend to make things like: Shift graphicsMess up the pagination Mess up the formatingAnd and and...A solution that fits to my needs is: Create a pdf out of the offerCreate a pdf for the

Write SMS with Launchy

2007-09-13T23:53:00.000+02:00

If you have a bluetooth enabled Nokia phone and the according software on it, in my case it is Nokia PC Suite 6, you can easly write shortmessages.The only thing to do, is to create a shortcut in your Startmenu called sms to start the TextMessageEditor.exe programm. This programm is located at my computer under:C:\Programme\Nokia\Nokia PC Suite 6\TextMessageEditor.exeNow just fire up launchy (

launchy and leo 3rd edition

2007-09-13T22:58:00.000+02:00

With the new version of runny you can do it without using vbs or cmd anymore. Just install the newest version, go to the configure plugins, click on runny and configure options and type in the following things: command name: leoexecute: "%WINDIR%\system32\mshta.exe" http://pda.leo.org/?lp=ende&lang=de&searchLoc=0&cmpType=relaxed&relink=on§Hdr=on&spellToler=std&search=$1And save everything. No

tweaking launchy and leo with vbs

2007-09-13T21:52:00.000+02:00

I've just played a little bit with VBS. And discovered a way to run the translation without the ugly msdos box, as I mentioned in my previous post handy translation on windows with launchy, msdos and mshta.It's quite simple. I just call the mshta with vbs and add the assigned parameter to the url. So speaking in code it is:If WScript.Arguments.Count = 1 Then pattern = WScript.Arguments.Item(0)

handy translation on windows with launchy, msdos and mshta

2007-09-11T22:03:00.000+02:00

A common thing what I need often is to translate some english words in german. There are some good dictionaries out there in the web, which can be used for this task. As I dont like to do more then I need to get the thing I want, its pretty to much work for me to:get the browser focuestype in the url for the dictionary (in this case: http://dict.leo.org)click in the input fieldtype in the word to

Testing documentation

2007-09-02T21:55:00.000+02:00

The last week I had to do some software tests in a test-lab. This means, 2 computer, setup with the software to test and nothing else. Ok fine, but how to protocol in a easy and fest way the testprotocol, if you want to minimize the overhad off reworking the protocol.Aim's of a testprotocol should be:the documented test should be repeatablethe documented test should be evaluableA good way to do

Boosting Prince2 with a trac based approach

2007-07-02T21:28:00.000+02:00

Today I had my first seminar in PRINCE2. Sounds nice, but it seems that you have to manage a lot of documents, where a lot information is saved and has to be read, searched, updated and so on. Our Trainer gave us a sample CD with templates for logs, issues, requests and and andAnd guess which format. Theeee ONE and ONLY easy to read, easy to process format 'doc' and 'xls'. Ok, I think I am a kind

thought over storage with tagging

2007-06-27T17:08:00.000+02:00

When I store files on my system, I will run sooner or later always in the same problem: Where did I store file x or y ?First thing should be to search the file in the file system via locate or find (under linux), if you use Windos its F3. But in the most cases I don't remember the filenames, If I am luck I know a part of the filename and with this its possible to find it with the search.

virtual office ?

2007-03-25T13:57:00.000+02:00

As I often work on different computers, but would love to have access to all my files I thought about a good solution for this. A Term that I often read is "virutal office", this idea sounds nice but there seems to be different definitions of virtual offices around the net.For me a "virtual office" schould be definied better as private virtual office. On the first hand my work must be done from

10 Minutes to ajax

2007-03-20T20:14:00.000+01:00

As I always read a lot about ajax, and the cool stuff, I tried it today. At the end, my first ajax was quite easy to code... or better copy 'n paste. The only anoying thing was, to get the right json library to work... As I wanted to do the cool stuff with prototype.js I followed the instructions of this tutorial: Das Ajax Beispiel portiert auf Prototype (Note: It's in german, but if you just

Easy templates in Code Igniter

2007-03-19T00:25:00.000+01:00

As I didn't found a smart and easy way for Code Igniter to use a root template in which I can include the parts of a website. I came up with this simple solution. No need to install a template engine, just pure php.Update:I found the corresponding section in the user-guide Template Parser Class, so there is a smart way... For the root template (system/application/views/template.php):

Include vimtips into vim

2007-03-17T13:37:00.000+01:00

As my vaforite editor vim has so much functions, whistles and bells, that you never can't remember everything, I have found a way to integrate the vimtips from David Rayner to vim (edit ~/.vimrc):" Get the vimtipsfunction Vtips() let vimtips = tempname() execute "badd " . vimtips execute "sb " . vimtips:set ft=vim :r ! w3m -dump http://rayninfo.co.uk/vimtips.html :

manageing a todolist - todotxt.com

2006-07-15T15:34:00.000+02:00

I've just got attention to http://livehacker.com and http://todotxt.com. There Gina Trapani describes her way to manage here todolists, it's a mixture of bash, gnu-utilities, scriptlanguage and naturally .txt files.I like this approach cause I live as well on the shell, in a nice symbiois with my vim. But I have to bring up some points, to her work. So I tried to post to write a comment to

rubying

2006-07-08T21:05:00.000+02:00

I just played a little bit around with ruby and rails. Seems to be really interessting, cause you can speed up the development process. In the next vacations I will try to use the time to improve my skills in ruby and rails. Hopefully I can then realise some of my software-tools which whirr around in my brain and shall improve my daily work with the computer ;)

the power of coding

2006-06-26T23:14:00.000+02:00

I like coding... just for simplyfing things, or even for the dry principle, or just for relaxing ;) . Today I had again such a glorious moment. We tested a data exchange between our company and the german telekom. This included the interaction of seperated system. A little bit bash, ruby and ssh solved the problem. With this mixture of tools I was able to fullfill all requirements that was

Managing Tickets

2006-06-08T02:06:00.000+02:00

Today I thought a bit about -- inspired by an old aricle of Jon Udel The weblog as a project management tool -- how do I interact in a smooth way with tickets.The Problem that I have in the moment with ticket systems (I just use webbased systems, like trac), you have to edit the tickets in a web-formular.. and I hate editing webformulars. Its ok, if you have to sign in for something or do a

Some thougts about Meeting-Protocols

2006-03-31T23:14:00.000+02:00

They are quite boring to write, but the are very helpful if you have them later :). Some things I recognized:Its a repetitive task (protocol writing)The protocol are structured textThey are structured always in the same wayThe contain descriptions, solutions and todosThey have to be accessd by at least the members of the meetingSummarizing this points, it looks for me that in some way the normal

Single Sourcing with Wiki

2006-03-20T22:40:00.000+01:00

I have a dream... and no time to implement it. Since Wikis are growing up in the world wide web, I had this idea to use a wiki for the information management. This has some reasons:You can store everything you typeYou can find it easily through the searchYou can net (link) informationI think this is a big advandtage compared to paper-stored information. But another thing in my eyes is really

inbox - workbox: processing emails

2006-03-17T13:02:00.000+01:00

As I work more and more in my new job, I realise that working with the email is getting more important. The first thing todo is, to learn to use the email client better - mutt.The other thing that pops up in my mind is, that the processing of email is still a kind of "Not optimized". If I look in my inbox, I see a lot mail. The most of them are tasks that I have to do. This task often trail a

Tcl and Webserver

2004-10-13T20:44:00.000+02:00

I just have to learn something about Tcl for an upcoming new Projekt. As I surfed the net, i discovered that there is apache extension for Tcl. Reading the abstract let you thing this is the thing you need for the ultimative Webpage. Easy to use, fast in proceedings and so an. I wonder if this is really so good like it sounds. There are so much scripting languages around, and some of them are

let's start

2004-10-02T22:16:00.000+02:00

So... I read something about the XML-syndication stuff, and now I thought to try out the blogging-thing. By Now I don't know what with my blog will happen and where it will end... ...we will see. So long. Now I will enjoy the saturday evening.