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Living on the Edge (of Rails) in Spanish

Chu Yeow — Sun, 18 May 2008 12:16:18 +0000

Juan Lupión wrote in to inform me that he’s also translating my Living on the Edge (of Rails) series of blog posts to Español. Thanks Juan!

Installing libmemcached and memcached gem on Ubuntu

Chu Yeow — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 04:20:54 +0000

Quick notes for installing libmemcached and Evan Weaver’s memcached gem, in case I forget (again):

Get libmemcached source from http://tangent.org/552/libmemcached.html. Configure, make, make install. Make sure you get a version compatible with the Ruby memcached gem by opening the COMPATIBILITY file in the memcached gem files.
gem install memcached
Create a symlink ln -s /usr/local/lib/libmemcached.so.2 /usr/lib/.
Try it out with irb -rubygems, require 'memcached'

Adium themes use plain old XHTML, CSS and JS

Chu Yeow — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 06:07:18 +0000

Just a quick note of something I found out while reading Transcending CSS: all the themes (message styles, contact list styles, etc.) in Adium are crafted with our old friends XHTML, CSS and JS. I opened up a few AdiumXtras to see for myself and true enough,

s and CSS rules make up the style. Very smart decision by the Adium developers.

YSlow – Firefox extension that helps to optimize your web pages

Chu Yeow — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 05:24:51 +0000

YSlow is a Firefox extension that works with Firebug to grade your web pages’ performance and gives you advice on how to fix any problems. Awesome. It has JSLint built into it too. And yes I got a big freaking F. Via Arun (IRL).

Haruhi Season 2 announced!

Chu Yeow — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 12:06:02 +0000

Season 2 of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzimiya was announced in the August 2007 edition of NewType Japan – check out the scans. The announcement isn’t official, but there’ll be one on the 7th – that’s 7/7/2007!

Prototype 1.5.1 is baaaaad for Safari 1 and 2 users

Chu Yeow — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 11:15:00 +0000

Read the bug fix announcement. Upgrade! This was causing extremely puzzling crashes in Safari on Macs (pre-Safari 3 beta) on one of our applications and I’m glad (in some ways) that the problem lay with the Prototype library.

Bezurk featured on Channel NewsAsia

Chu Yeow — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 10:31:30 +0000

The company I work for was featured on a short “Surf Time” segment on Channel NewsAsia‘s TV channel. Catch the Bezurk Surf Time video on YouTube.

LOLCATS + email

Chu Yeow — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 08:32:36 +0000

I IZ BORED: MY LOLEMAIL POST, LET ME SHOW YOU IT.

That “Safari” thing…

Chu Yeow — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 16:34:34 +0000

So what exactly is new in Safari 3 (other than the big OMGWTFBBQ over Safari for Windows)? TUAW has the best writeup (with screenshots of course) of the new features in Safari 3 I’ve seen so far. Check it out if you’re lazy to try it out – I did install the beta and took it for a test drive, but was never much of a Safari user to recognize what exactly did change in Safari 3 beta, so this helped. I must say the new Find interface is really slick and the draggable tabs has been a long time coming (one of my biggest annoyances with Safari and Camino).

Seen elsewhere: Glue sniffers on Singapore train

Chu Yeow — Sun, 24 Dec 2006 02:56:31 +0000

Tomorrow.sg has an entry with a photo of glue sniffing girls on a MRT train. This picture is tits (as Eric Cartman would say).

How to setup your Thrash/Sent/Drafts folders for IMAP on Mail.app

Chu Yeow — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 05:07:46 +0000

How to setup your Trash/Sent/Drafts folders for IMAP on Mail.app. “Select mailbox, Mailbox -> Use this mailbox for…, Sent”. (OK I misspelled ‘trash’ in the post title – see trackback below.)

Seen elsewhere: The Single Most Important Rule for Retaining Software Developers

Chu Yeow — Sun, 19 Nov 2006 16:01:25 +0000

Something true: The Single Most Important Rule for Retaining Software Developers.

Job Ad: Java Web Developer for Bezurk

Chu Yeow — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 12:37:35 +0000

We‘re on the lookout for a Java Web Developer (ad on Craigslist). I managed to get “Ruby on Rails” into the ad copy somewhere heh – it gets kinda lonely working in a development team of Java heads. Anyway, we’re looking for a great Java developer to work with us in Singapore – if you’re up for it, send us your resume. I would really like to get someone with some interest in Rails development to work together with on some upcoming (Rails) projects (you know, like after all the real work is done).

RSpec and BDD

Chu Yeow — Sat, 05 Aug 2006 08:08:33 +0000

RSpec: Behavior Driven Development framework for Ruby. It’s like writing your specifications in English that’s executable. Eight tools in one, and a really nice Mock Objects framework.

The first Firefox ads are out

Chu Yeow — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 17:34:33 +0000

Firefox Flicks has just put up 3 of the first ads that have been submitted to the Firefox ads competition. Check them out. Drama queen was my favorite of the three, though they are all surprisingly very good quality ads.