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August 2009

CSV fun with Ruby

Working on a project and coming to dislike Excel due to my being an inept user of it!  I recall in Windows XP, Excel 2003, one could sort and filter a spreadsheet by blanks.  I was doing some manual work and was hoping to use the “Filter by blank” to save me some time at [...]

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Emacs and Vim: Useful commands

I’m just learning how to use git, and I figured I would use it to store my Aquamacs config and files online.  This will prove useful when I’m setting up a new computer, etc. So that repo is here: http://github.com/zhannes/Aquamacs-Emacs/tree/master **Caveat** For any non-emacs peeps that want to follow along, the key commands work like [...]

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mysql install, mac os x leopard

**Update: If you already have MAMP installed, you can just use the MAMP MySQL which is at /Applications/MAMP/Library/bin/mysql Socket (if MAMP is running) is at:/Applications/MAMP/tmp/mysql/mysql.sock I had previously read that using MAMP’s mysql DB with Rails was a problem. But it works for Sinatra at least.** Installing mysql without macports. Posting these instructions b/c I [...]

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Sunburst theme for Aquamacs

Sunburst is the theme I’ve recently switched to when using textmate.  I happened upon a port for aquamacs.  You can get it here: http://barg.hitoridake.com/2008/08/sunburst-for-emacs/ I think you need color theme installed.  In any case, you definitely need to include the lisp from the above link somewhere in your load path. e.g. ;;  add color-theme to [...]

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jquery and dojo cdn

for myself when I forget, and anyone else searching jquery <script type=”text/javascript” src=”http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.3.2/jquery.min.js”></script> jquery ui <script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.5.2/jquery-ui.min.js"></script> dojo <script type="text/javascript" src="http://o.aolcdn.com/dojo/1.3/dojo/dojo.xd.js"></script>

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posting data with curl from the command line

Before i forget, an easy way to test if you can connect to an external api is to use CURL on the command line. This nice as a sanity check/proof of concept to ensure you have the right token, proper field mappings, submitting the right data. This saves you from setting up a test form, [...]

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