Haiku under VMWare Fusion

Interesting times indeed as I am finally able to run Haiku at a decent speed under OSX (does that make it Haiku.app?). The network works too which is very useful if I am ever going to do anything with my projects.

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I have moved the BeOS open source survey to the “BeOS”:/beos page.

Childrens TV in the UK

This is more of a note to myself, but when I was a lad at lot of the children’s drama that was shown on childrens tv was Australian or from New Zealand. Thinking back it was quite impressive as there was (as far as I can remember):

• The Girl From Tomorrow
• Mirror, Mirror
• Round the Twist

(all links point to wikipedia)

Does anyone remember anything else?

TheRubyMine – Italian Ruby/Ruby on Rails resources

I am happy to see that TheRubyMine is online (“therubymine.com”:http://www.therubymine.com) and so if you are interested in the Italian Ruby and Ruby on Rails community then you should take a look and perhaps even take part.

It is still early days for them but give them some time and I am sure they will start causing trouble… hmm I hope it won’t be long before I join in with the fun!

BeOS apps

I am wondering if I should bother making the source code to my old BeOS applications available… does anyone care at all?

rubyonrails – beware of similarly named relationships

I recently developed a “rubyonrails”:http://www.rubyonrails.org application in which a user had a province (as part of their address) and also a collection of selected provinces.

class Users
  belongs_to :province
  has_and_belongs_to_many :selected_provinces, :class_name => "Province"
end

I could very easily find out which provinces a user had selected and also which users had selected a specific province. However I didn’t realise that if I accessed a user via the province then the province_id which previously pointed the user’s address province was replaced by the id of the selected province.

province = Province.find_first
province.users.each do |user|
  # do something
  # however user.province_id now points to province
end

I assume the province_id is added by the habtm join so that we can understand which selected_province object this user object comes from however in my case it meant that I lost the original province_id and so if I saved that user then I would end up changing the address province.

This is probably not a bug as such but something that should be watched out for as it took me a while to discover this problem with my application.

Tim and Tobias ~ Magic in the Wind

I remember reading a book when I was in Infant/Junior School but all I could recall were certain elements: a boy living by a canal with his uncle or aunt, a key that was a black cat, a mountain, and a kitten being thrown in the canal.

I searched and I searched and I found a forum with someone looking for the same thing as me, but they were told that it was perhaps “Magic Mountain”.

Somehow though, I managed to find the book and so I place this information in the google archives just in case someone else is searching for it

The author was Sheila K. McCullagh and the first book was called *Tim and Tobias ~ Magic in the Wind*. I also discovered a website called “Tim and the Hidden People” (which is where I probably found this missing book) and can be found at “www.timandthehiddenpeople.moonfruit.com”:http://www.timandthehiddenpeople.moonfruit.com/

Summer Holidays 2004

It has been a long time since I updated the site and I will when I have more time and I have finished university. Then I can fix the hiragana and katakana scripts and think about updating my BeOS (Haiku) applications and probably opensourcing them. Until then have a good summer!

Milan Quest

Milan is empty so I headed north and met the clouds. Photo collection “here”:/photos/nature.