Jason Ong mentioned about the rubbish bin not easy to find in reddotrubyconf venue: http://jasonong.tumblr.com/post/4977431136/reddotrubyconf-2011-review
On top of that, I suggest spliting recyclable materials. So many cans dropped into rubbish bin. I tried to put some cans together into a paper box. but people thought that paper box was also rubbish bin ... sigh
As a rubyist, we have to be smart in our life and being nice to everything (not only everyone) around us.
Another amazing talk in reddotrubyconf. Tom Preston Werner shared about application utilizing the git capability, i.e. versioning, branches, tag, link files by commit. For example, gollum is a wiki engine use git as storage. Another one is bup using git packfile format to implement the backup system
Video for the same talk can be found here: http://sea.ucar.edu/event/unlocking-secrets-git
Developer implementing ideas into software pieces is like author writing ideas into books.
Keep writing things you want to tell the world. Some of them may touched someone's heart. (Some may touch no one's heart, though) Some of them may help changing the world. Some of them may just stayed in the book store, looking long for someone to pick it up.
And then one day, all of them will be gathered inside author's Bio, describing the author himself.
I created an application to share fav comic book list: http://comics-crowd.heroku.com/
it is great if you can recommend good comic books to me (and to other people)
need your feedback to improve the website too ~
^___^
Cheers
Written in Ruby On Rails
Open Source at github: http://github.com/3dd13/comics-crowd
Deployed to heroku
VXRL will play the Defcon CTF hacking game in June and we are holding a briefing session for new comers. (most likely taking place in Hong Kong PolyU)
if you are interested, please email Dark Floyd: darkfloyd@vxrl.org
Few things I think of after RedDotRubyConf day 1 event:
Saw this company name Neurosky when i visited Hong Kong Science Park. http://www.neurosky.com/
Wonder what happens if i think of "some" websites when I do presentation in front of client. Will it open the website automatically ?! haha
There are just too many online profile and resume website, so i take this chance to build my own website describing myself. Applied many jQuery navigation / menu plugins. Enjoy ~
Google Web Master Tools provided an option to verify the website ownership with Google Analytics. So, after you placed the javascript provided by Google Analytics, verified successfully by Google Analytics, the Web Master Tools should be verified in few more clicks.
However, after I selected "Link to your Google Analytics account", it keeps saying not able to verified. It turns out that Web Master Tools not able to verify the code snippet that is placed outside head. (the common practice is placing at the bottom of the page, before the end of body ?!).
Therefore, placing the javascript snippet inside your < head >... < /head > will solve this problem.
I wanted to integrate with anobii and found their API really too simple. Their API currently only supports one simple bookshelf query. What I need at the moment is to query my own bookshelf with filters by tags.
I really love anobii and I offered my effort to help integrate their API for free. The reply is that .... they are currently working on the new API !! so excited !! Looking forward to their new API and Good Luck ~
One of our projects are using scala with maven. Not sure which dependency was added and then when we did mvn install the com.sun:tools:jar missing error is thrown.
Java is in the class path. Usual guess is JDK versus JRE setup. Tried out few environment variable settings, and we end up solved it by installing the sun java and get rid of the default ubuntu java.
Here are the command from http://yoodey.com/removing-openjdk-jre-ubuntu-1010-ec2-amazon-and-install-sun-java-6-jre-jdk. Thanks !
1. Update Ubuntu Repository
sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://archive.canonical.com/ maverick partner"
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get remove openjdk-6-jre-headless
sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jdk sun-java6-jre
sudo apt-get autoremove
2. Set what kind of Java we used in Ubuntu Linux
sudo update-alternatives --config java
You can pick up what kind of Java you need to use.
It was great fun last night ~ each of us talked about what we were up to. Beers and pizza@pizzabox
(it is really difficult to find their menu, we have hacked up a simple app to solve this problem: Menu Web Hong Kong )
Btw, I was the only local Hong Kong coder attending. Where are the other hackers ?!
here is a quick meetup summary:
He talked about his Makible and shared some concepts in encouraging global manufacturing.
They were doing pet products in Boston. Now they are in Hong Kong working on health care products in hospital.
HTML, CSS and Javascript coder. welcome for projects
He restarted coding recently. Playing with rails.
We are delivering an internal financial product (written in Ruby On Rails) for a client. At the same time, we are doing side projects and developing their own web / mobile products.
As usual, William is solving some technically and algorithmic difficult problems. One of them is auction related algorithm optimization.
Jonathan, Thank you for offering boot hk as the meetup venue.
Thanks Steve and Thought Sauce, organizing this meetup and sponsored the drinks