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Scientists discover algorithm to create colors

pascal — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 08:14:35 +0000

colors.simplificator.com is online!

Unbelievable, isn’t it.Until now you had to rely on services offering a limited amount of color palettes.
But thanks to an international team of scientists we can now have gazillions of color combinations for you. Just visit colors.simplificator.com and hit refresh until you find a palette you like.
And no need to hurry we have tons of colors in stock.

New Gem Released

pascal — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 06:57:01 +0000

New ? Ah… not really. Would be fond to say that TLS support for ActionMailer is new. Anyway we packed up the code which is floating around on the web to add TLS support to pre Ruby 1.9 projects. Just for convenience. Find it on github.

New RubyGem released

pascal — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 15:40:44 +0000

I’m happy to work for a company which lets me play around with things that are not directly related to contracts and paid projects. So last friday a played around with ActiveRecords and validations. Whenever possible i add not-null constraints as well as limits to my DB schema.
Why not re-use this information to create validation code ? Enter arext (ActiveRecord Extension…what a great name) validations. Have a look at it at github or the (pretty thin) README

New Customer

pascal — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 15:35:28 +0000

We’re happy to announce that 3 Plus (a swiss TV broadcaster) has chosen Simplificator GmbH to implement a new Tool for their Website. For this project we combine Flex, Amazon S3 and Rails.We can not give more details yet but the technologies mentioned point in the “video” direction. There i said it. When will i ever learn :-)

The Ruby Language Will Reach 4 Million Programmers by 2013

godot — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:52:20 +0000

I missed this when it first came out. Gartner sees Ruby as a mayor player for the next five years. Unfortunately, Gartner sells the content they’re producing so normal people don’t get to see it. I came across a german translation where the main points are

4 Million Ruby programmers by 2013
Focus on Convention over Configuration gives impressive functionality to developers
Rails-Framework is currently the killer app for ruby, other applications will follow
Domain Specific Languages will be the strongest attractor for professional developers
Tools will mature over the next year

There’s a graph of it somewhere on the web:

Findings: The Ruby Language Will Reach 4 Million Programmers by 2013

Techworld - Ruby faces off against PHP, Java

Ruby Is on the Rise - Application Development

Don’t play with IFS when you play with git

godot — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:46:58 +0000

IFS is the ‘intrafield separator’ bash and others use to figure out what a separate argument is - normally it contains at least a space, a tab and a return character. Most applications are immune to changes to this variable so when dealing with a list of files containing spaces it can be cool to reset IFS to a return character only:
godot@eco:~/tmp$ echo “hello” > bla\ bla godot@eco:~/tmp$ echo “there” > bla\ bli godot@eco:~/tmp$ for dada in $(ls); do cat $dada; done cat: bla: No such file or directory cat: bla: No such file or directory cat: bla: No such file or directory cat: bli: No such file or directory godot@eco:~/tmp$ export IFS=” > “ godot@eco:~/tmp$ for dada in $(ls); do cat $dada; done hello there

Now after all this, some work with loops, convert, imagemagick and some lunch I came back to the same shell and wanted to clone a repository:

godot@eco:~/git$ git clone git@github.com:simplificator/uptimehq.gitInitialized empty Git repository in /home/godot/git/uptimehq/.git/ remote: Counting objects: 4253, done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (2658/2658), done. remote: Total 4253 (delta 1289), reused 4253 (delta 1289) Receiving objects: 100% (4253/4253), 3.71 MiB | 138 KiB/s, done. Resolving deltas: 100% (1289/1289), done. cd: 518: can’t cd to /home/godot/git/uptimehq/.git/refs/remotes/origin Warning: Remote HEAD refers to nonexistent ref, unable to checkout.

Trying to pull manually gives:

godot@eco:~/git/uptimehq$ git pull origin master fatal: b3392429416c77e1242c5307f160b51b75c57057 : not a valid SHA1
In the deep confusion which followed I got more very telling errors which I would like to post here.
godot@eco:~/git/uptimehq$ git merge origin/master fatal: Not a valid object name 897a76b11443dfa7f3ba37a39dcb9831a47d445a fatal: Could not resolve ref ‘897a76b11443dfa7f3ba37a39dcb9831a47d445a ‘ Merge with strategy recursive failed. godot@eco:~/git/uptimehq$ git rebase origin/master Current branch master is up to date. godot@eco:~/git/uptimehq$ git pull 897a76b11443dfa7f3ba37a39dcb9831a47d445a - not something we can merge
So whenever you get here - check your shells IFS. Or get a new shell.

inplace bugfix

pascal — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 08:07:28 +0000

Tiny bugfix for our inplace plugin. Hitting the cancel button sometimes yielded an error. This was not visible on all browsers. Thanks to Mina for reporting.

the all new simplificator.com

pascal — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 16:40:03 +0000

With every new project we executed for our customers we postponed the launch of our own website… In one sentence: here is the all new simplificator.com Oh… and expect at least another 18 months until we move our blog to the new design :-)

rwebthumb RubyGem updated

pascal — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 08:37:37 +0000

We’ve added support for the Easythumb API to the rwebthumb gem. Just grab the latest version from github (sudo gem update simplificator-rwebthumb) and see the README. rwebthumb is a ruby wrapper for the Webthumb API.

Resources:

Older Post about rwebthumb

We have two masters

godot — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 14:22:16 +0000

We are slowly moving our projects from our svn repository to github. In that process we had to move a private repository from one github account to another (pulling and pushing again), still maintaining the svn part.Funny situation ocurred today. After I pulled, merged and pushed my local repository back to the new github account I have two masters!I don’t exactly know how I did this. Who knows what I get when I pull the master branch now? Update: After I wrote this post, some background task seems to have tidied up for me. Phew. One master.