Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, the providence moves too. A whole stream of events issues from the [...]

Because the 1.1.3 firmware seems to take up more space on the system partition than 1.1.2, you quickly start running into disk space problems. To solve these problems (like the Installer jumping to Springboard while installing a package) you can move your applications folder to the media partition, here is how: Connect to your iPhone [...]

By accident I just found out that if you type the ActiveRecord model name in your Rails console session (script/console), it prints out all the attributes of your model. Now more trips to your database, to find out how attributes are named! Delayed:netmonic schmidp$ script/console Loading development environment (Rails 1.99.0) >> XenServer => XenServer(id: integer, [...]

Videos of the complete Steve Jobs and Bill Gates interview: Steve Jobs and Bill Gates Prologue Steve Jobs and Bill Gates Part 1 Steve Jobs and Bill Gates Part 2 Steve Jobs and Bill Gates Part 3 Steve Jobs and Bill Gates Part 4 Steve Jobs and Bill Gates Part 5 Steve Jobs and Bill [...]

I’m currently working on project involving a J2ME client on a mobile phone connecting to a Rails RESTful web service. As you might know, a RESTful web services utilizes the four HTTP verbs GET, POST, PUT and DELETE. So yesterday we started to write unit tests, running on a J2ME device, which test if the [...]

I’m currently working with four other students on a rails project for the ASE (Advanced Software Engineering) course at university, which also involves payment. We are still in the elaboration phase and have only started to look into different solutions, like PayPal, Google Checkout, Authorize.net, etc. So it came in quite handy that I stumbled [...]