http://justkez.com Programming and culture Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:40:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I have spent the last few days building a small Ramaze based interface to the Wordpress database schema. I'm still using Wordpress to create the content, but it is all being delivered through Ramaze now. There are still a few teething issues, but it looks like most things have transitioned ... http://justkez.com/justkez-moves-to-ramaze-sort-of/ "Few" being the operative word. Paste these into your abbrev.properties file, and you should be good to go (typing %form and hitting Ctrl+B in any file will give you the full %form... line). %form=%form{:action => '|', :method => 'POST', :name => ''} %input=%input{:name => '|', :id => '', :value => ''} %label=%label{:for ... http://justkez.com/a-few-abbreviationssnippets-for-scite-and-haml/ An excellent guest post on FlowingData by Martin Krzywinski on how best to visually represent tabular data - a thoughtful, thorough and very useful post. http://justkez.com/visually-representing-tabular-data/ A while ago I posted a little piece on installing Ramaze on OS X Leopard. Whilst this article outlines what you need to get up and running, it was based on Ruby 1.8. It is now recommended that Ramaze users be on Ruby 1.9 where possible (thanks Pistos). Install ... http://justkez.com/ramaze-and-ruby-19-on-leopard/ Although these posts aren't stricly daily... The BBC Internet blog talks about what they do to optimise the iPlayer delivery - pornography for the optimisation obsessed. Makes my use of WPSuperCache look a bit weak. Nice, simple comparison of using and not-using gzip to compress your website. (Bit of an optimisation ... http://justkez.com/interesting-links-of-the-day-2/ A wrap up of what piqued my interest today. A thorough analysis of The New York Times' front page. Conclusion being that they don't really care about their content (BBC News is a good contrast). The fallacy of "web experts" - first there was HTML, then SEO and now Social Media ... http://justkez.com/interesting-links-of-the-day-1/ Those familiar with The Strand may be surprised to hear that it is quite possible to have an enjoyable evening out there, without being ripped off and surrounded by tourists. We started off by walking from Temple - an end of The Strand that is not often seen by foot, there ... http://justkez.com/an-evening-on-the-strand/ Ahead of getting lynched by anarchists and Greenpeace on the way to work this week, we were wondering; what do Anarchists do with their time?* It is my understanding that the general belief of Anarchy is "self goverenance" and a general distaste for any organised ruling body, or structured social system. ... http://justkez.com/what-do-anarchists-do-with-their-time/ Having spent not only the good part of today, but many hours of many other days, I thought it prudent to share some findings on where the world stands when it comes to creating and writing to a new Shapefile from a C# .NET environment. As you probably know, a Shapefile ... http://justkez.com/creating-a-shapefile-from-c-net-what-are-the-options/ UPDATE: A more complete, Ruby 1.9 compatible guide can be found here Ramaze is lovely. Max OS X Leopard is lovely. Git is lovely. So why don't we quickly whizz over how to combine them all? I recently moved from my iMac to a new Mac Mini (technically a downgrade, ... http://justkez.com/install-ramaze-current-from-git-on-os-x-leopard/