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OCT 30TH, 2008
Typing czech characters

English Problem How can I type czech characters, in particular characters with a tick on them, such as f.ex. ‘š’? Solutions The solutions below should be working under Gnome and Xfce. Both solutions can be combined if desired. Solution 1 - using the compose key This solution uses the “compose key”. You press a special key. After that you press two or more other keys. And the keyboard subsystem will try to combine the presses keys into a character. Read on


SEP 16TH, 2008
gem doesn't know about Debian

There’s some interesting piece of software that I want to experiment with. It includes an example Rails application. Nice: # apt-get install rails $ cd interesting-example-rails-app $ ./script/server Missing the Rails 2.0.2 gem. Please `gem install -v=2.0.2 rails`, update your RAILS_GEM_VERSION setting in config/environment.rb for the Rails version you do have installed, or comment out RAILS_GEM_VERSION to use the latest version installed. Uhm, well, why? $ dpkg -s rails | grep Version Version: 2. Read on


JUL 24TH, 2008
ical to timeline

Allthough this being a hack to scratch my itch named KDE Bug 34682, it took me about 11h all the same. Find a ruby programm attached that dumps a timeline. This is fork ware. It does what I want but if you need to tune it to your needs then fork it, send me a note and link back to this page, Thanks. Tomas Pospisek, tpo_deb at sourcepole.ch Read on


JUL 24TH, 2008
improved mybackup

Here’s an improved version of mybackup, a MySql database backup tool. The changes against 0.9.5c are: 0.9.6: option to exclude databases by default exclude MySql’s information_schema metainfo DB access TABLE STATUS rows by name instead of position use the standard ‘-’ for STDOUT instead of ‘BLANK’ which wouldn’t work open log file before writing any output Tomas Pospisek, tpo at sourcepole.ch Read on


MAR 23RD, 2008
MapLayers plugin for Rails

Update July 31, 2008 The current version is now hosted and documented on github. Getting Started Install the latest version of the plugin: ./script/plugin install http://www.sourcepole.ch/svn/plugins/map_layers/trunk Create a controller and a view ./script/generate controller Map index Initialization of the map Add the map viewer initialization to the index action in the controller: @map = MapLayers::Map.new("map") do |map, page| page << map.add_layer(MapLayers::GOOGLE) page << map.zoom_to_max_extent() end Add this to the head of your view: Read on
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