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September 28, 2005

Devhelp (and weaseling)

I don't have anything to say about houses, dogs or chickens, but I've been doing some small improvements to Devhelp over the last couple of days. Since it's one of the programs I'm using most when working, it's quite rewarding to make it work better. I have a few things that I'd like to get done, like typeahead search in pages and some kind of bookmark or keyword support so that I can get to my most used parts easily. Some great news: Stefan Kost is looking into fixing up gtk-doc to mark up the generated devhelp files a bit better so that we can make use of more information when searching and displaying the docs.

And especially for Micke
Homer: Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It's what separates us from the animals ... except the weasel.

September 26, 2005

Rails

I wanted to try out Ruby on Rails so I hacked together a simple web frontend for iTunes using AppleScript and Rails. Even though web development isn't exatly the most exciting thing to do, it was pretty fun. Ruby was a nice surprise, I think I might actually use it again for small hacks in the future. The downside of the whole adventure was that it's quite depressing to see how nicely everything works in OSX compared to Linux, being able to quickly hack together something like that and just have it work.

Boston
I'm going to the summit this year! It will be the first time overseas for me, hopefully I will be let in being one of those foreigners and all. I'm looking forward to meeting everyone :)