http://www.batteryslave.com minor thoughts about gadgets, code, podcasts and other technical stuff... Sat, 20 Feb 2010 18:41:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en puh man again nearly going crazy over a simple problem. the environment: java project edited in eclipse (an a mac) check into subversion (on a linux box) teamcity buildserver using ant build script (same linux box as subversion) what happened: everywhere the encoding was correct beside one file. in that file my umlauts where ... http://www.batteryslave.com/2010/02/ant-replace-task-remind-the-encoding/ man that was easy. after my problems with getting ruby, gem and rails to run installing mod_rails aka phusion passenger was really easy: gem install passenger passenger-install-apache2-module i followed the steps that the installer told me and go. just needed to apt-get some apache dev packages and was ready to run. cant tell ... http://www.batteryslave.com/2009/10/walk-in-the-park-installing-mod_rails-aka-phusion-passenger/ man...always fighting to get a recent version of anything to run on the debian 4 (etch) vps i have. this time: ruby on rails. ruby v1.9.1, gems 1.3.5 and ror 2.3.4 is what i had i mind. first step: download ruby. execute the usual ./configure && make && make install ... http://www.batteryslave.com/2009/10/getting-ruby-on-rails-to-run-on-my-debian-4-vps/ some days ago i found my self in need to change the itemtemplate in a listbox according to their type. and if with less code as possible. i had done this in a treeview but i couldnt find the code again. so i needed to figure it out again and ... http://www.batteryslave.com/2009/09/itemtemplate-selection-by-type-in-xaml-only/ i am existed about a conference i am attending end of oktober in munich, germany: prio conference. its totally ui centric and that why its so hot. never saw such an interesting conference all about ui in germany before. http://www.batteryslave.com/2009/09/prio-conf-28-29-10-in-munich/ in the last days theres a lot of fuzz about google wave. if you are interested in new technology you have to see the video. its a great presentation of a very early product state. try to explain what wave will be: its email, im, chat, collaboration in one sleek interface. ... http://www.batteryslave.com/2009/06/some-thougths-about-google-wave/ lately we wanted to set the initial focus on a window in wpf to improve the keyboard experience in our app. what we want to achieve is just the initial focus. so when one opens the window he can type or push the most meaningful button instantly. ... http://www.batteryslave.com/2009/05/what-is-wrong-with-focus-in-wpf/ man, again a hour too early. but needed to pack my stuff so i arrived at the old sessions house on time. first session with david laribee: "towards a new architect". man is dave a good speaker. nice minimalistic slides. and we got teamwork. i think a great exercise was the ... http://www.batteryslave.com/2009/05/skillsmatter-london-day-3/ i am still not adapted to the hour time difference between germany and the uk. so i awoke a hour to early. arrived early at the old session house where the workshops take place and decided to hear the f#-workshop with robert pickering. the workshop was full of f# content. robert ... http://www.batteryslave.com/2009/05/skillsmatter-london-day-2/ so the first day is finished. when i arrived at skillsmatter i met michel. like expected. first talk with ian cooper about internal dsls in c#. cool intro to the matter. now i need to have a look at some stuff: push-button- vs. fluent-api nbuilder closures are code handled like data static reflection rhino dsl mite after ... http://www.batteryslave.com/2009/05/skillsmatter-london-day-1/