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Instanceof Idea: November 2010
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Mike Conway's adventures in IT, and other misc ramblings. Saturday, November 13, 2010. Ruby on Rails on OSX 10.6. A bit of frustration picking up Rails again on Mac. It seemed that I could not install rails via the. Command. I kept getting an exception like this:. ERROR: http:/ gems.rubyforge.org/ does not appear to be a repository. Back to Rails and Ruby after something of hiatus, delayed for several hours messing with gems. Tolerating frustration is a vital part of the developer's tool-set.
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Instanceof Idea: October 2009
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Mike Conway's adventures in IT, and other misc ramblings. Wednesday, October 14, 2009. A few quick tips on Sun VirtualBox. Their open virtualization platform. I'm runing a host with Windows XP, and I want to host some Linux servers for various purposes (more on that later). Second, I was working on creating a shared folder on my Windows host that could be seen by the Linux box, using the provided command:. Mount -t vboxsf [-o OPTIONS] sharename mountpoint. This will let Ubuntu know about the vboxsf type.
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Instanceof Idea: January 2011
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Mike Conway's adventures in IT, and other misc ramblings. Monday, January 3, 2011. Another undocumented annoyance with testing Grails controllers. I switched from rendering JSON in my previous post. To using a gsp to format an HTML ul tag based on a model containing my list of results. This is because I find it easier when using JQuery to do my AJAX using HTML content. JQuery seems to natively prefer HTML to JSON, whereas Dojo seemd to run on JSON. Def loadTree = {. Def parent = params['dir']. AssertEqua...
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Instanceof Idea: Testing a Grails Controller - getting the $*&@ thing to work
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Mike Conway's adventures in IT, and other misc ramblings. Saturday, January 1, 2011. Testing a Grails Controller - getting the $*&@ thing to work. I wanted to post on two things. First, of general interest, I wanted to show how I got a working test on a Grails controller. Second, I wanted to highlight some of the new Jargon API and how it can fit into apps written using Groovy and Grails (this should also translate to Jython and JRuby, as well as other dynamic JVM languages). Def beforeInterceptor = {.
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Instanceof Idea: June 2009
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Mike Conway's adventures in IT, and other misc ramblings. Monday, June 8, 2009. I just wasted a few minutes on the obvious.Working on a JavaScript with Dojo, going through the excellent Mastering Dojo book from the Pragmatic Programmers. I'm working on the script, and looking at this bit of code:. Dojoconnect(dojo.byId("qform"), "submit", function(e){. Stop default processing and propagation. We really don't want to submit the form). Erase any previous borders. Var query= dojo.byId("query").value;. Someo...
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Instanceof Idea: So that's what happened to Wave
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Mike Conway's adventures in IT, and other misc ramblings. Wednesday, July 20, 2011. So that's what happened to Wave. I tried Wave, was unimpressed, but felt like it would follow the classic hype curve. At any rate, I'm working on my Masters of Science in Information Science at the School of Information and Library Science. It's a wonderful program, though challenging with family full time job music gig. I'm holding it together (but procrastinating on some homework right now). As ' Wave in a Box. Watermar...
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Instanceof Idea: Another undocumented annoyance with testing Grails controllers
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Mike Conway's adventures in IT, and other misc ramblings. Monday, January 3, 2011. Another undocumented annoyance with testing Grails controllers. I switched from rendering JSON in my previous post. To using a gsp to format an HTML ul tag based on a model containing my list of results. This is because I find it easier when using JQuery to do my AJAX using HTML content. JQuery seems to natively prefer HTML to JSON, whereas Dojo seemd to run on JSON. Def loadTree = {. Def parent = params['dir']. AssertEqua...
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Instanceof Idea: December 2010
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Mike Conway's adventures in IT, and other misc ramblings. Wednesday, December 29, 2010. Grails and Spring Security. I'm developing a personal 'cloud browser' application for iRODS based on my Jargon libraries. Previously, I had started looking at a set of Spring Security libraries that could be used in web apps, such that authentication and gathering of roles could be done against the iRODS security, using iRODS user groups for role based access. First, here's what my XML wiring looks like:. Test 'org...
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Instanceof Idea: October 2010
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Mike Conway's adventures in IT, and other misc ramblings. Tuesday, October 26, 2010. Peeking at iRODS XML packing instructions using icommands. In working on the Jargon API, I'm often comparing the protocol operations with icommands. A helpful tip to turn on XML logging of the icommands you are executing:. Type this at the command prompt before issuing your commands to set some environment variables:. Export irodsProt=1; export irodsLogLevel=9;. Links to this post. Wednesday, October 20, 2010. For (int j...
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Instanceof Idea: July 2009
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Mike Conway's adventures in IT, and other misc ramblings. Wednesday, July 8, 2009. Since forever in web time the chatter has been about a new 'web OS' from Google. With the advent of rich internet applications in the form of GMail, Google Documents, Calendar, etc we're seeing the migration of information to the web, followed by the migration of the application to the web as a service. The Chrome OS is targeted first towards small notebooks (and probably tablets? Intermittantly connected (a-la Gears.
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