Tag Archive | "notes"

The perils in trusting syntax highlighting

February 14, 2008 Comments Off

Today after upgrading RSpec I ran a user story that I had just written and received a wonderful error: You have a nil object when you didn’t expect it! (NoMethodError). The error occurred while evaluating nil.add_scenario. I didn’t even think to check my user story because the syntax highlighting looked fine and it made sense [...]

Unzipping palm apps on a nintendo ds

April 30, 2007 Comments Off

Yesterday we wanted to play 3D tictactoe on my palm, but we didn’t have any such game. Now I could have used OnBoardC or plua to ‘quickly’ write a game but I didn’t have 2 weeks or a collection of icons at hand. Instead I found myself using Opera on my Nintendo DS to browse [...]

Childrens TV in the UK

March 8, 2007 Comments Off

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 [...]

rubyonrails – beware of similarly named relationships

April 29, 2006 5 comments

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 [...]

Tim and Tobias ~ Magic in the Wind

February 10, 2006 5 comments

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 [...]



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