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“I Love Me, Vol. I.”
OMG. I love palindromes. Say it backwards, say it forwards. It’s the same! Get all your literary goodness every day from Jim Kalb’s Palindrome Connection. I’m, alas, a salami! UPDATE: I love them so much I made a cute little palindrome generator. Go to https://uberthings.com/palindromic for your word of the day. UPDATE2: I am such…
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Python S60 Workshop
A clear view this time.., originally uploaded by michaelsharon. Nokia Dinner at the Carnelian Room. 52nd Floor. I spent the past weekend at the beautiful Stanford campus in Palo Alto attending a Python for Series60 Workshop given by the highly entertaining Jurgen Scheible. Met some awesome people whose work I’ve been tracking for a while…
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Sun & Laszlo to bring OpenLaszlo (AKA Open Flash) to Java ME devices.
I found some interesting stats in the Sun / Laszlo Project “Orbit” announcement that there would be a version of OpenLaszlo for Java ME devices. Here’s the quote: Javaâ„¢ Platform, Micro Edition (Java ME) is the most ubiquitous application platform for embedded devices in the world, with more than 3.8 billion Java devices including 1.2…
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Mapping your travels with subway logos
Got at b3co.com! I love this. Using logos of all the subway systems you’ve ever ridden is a wonderfully whimsical expression of creating a community around a shared experience. Tell me you don’t want to go to the site right now and click on everything. Now if only I could add the cute little Shinkansen…
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Fixing the @#$!! RMagick.bundle: [BUG] Bus Error
After upgrading gems on my Macbook Pro a few months ago, I started getting this horrible error whenever I tried to get to my application’s console in Rails. The-Me:~/Sites/socialight michael$ script/console Loading development environment. /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rmagick-1.14.1/lib/RMagick.bundle: [BUG] Bus Error ruby 1.8.4 (2005-12-24) [i686-darwin8.6.1] Abort trap I tried everything. Reinstalling Ruby, Rails and the RMagick gem. Downloading…
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