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Converting TiddlyWiki Syntax into DokuWiki Markup with TextMate

I like TiddlyWikis. They are my electronic counterpart of a notepad. All notes, thoughts and code snippets with the interface for editing and searching in one single file to be carried around and used everywhere, I have a web browser … Weiterlesen

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Fixing the Broken Gem Update Chain on Mac OS X 10.5

After a long time when I had no chance working on rails projects I wanted to update Rails for diving into the changes and new features of the new 2.2 version. Because of Rails now needs gem version 1.3.x and … Weiterlesen

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PostgreSQL on Mac OS X 10.5 and Some Mysteries

To use my favourite open source database, I installed PostgreSQL version 8.2.5 from the source code on my mac. In doing so I followed these instructions, taking into account what suited best my personal preferences: http://evang.eli.st/blog/2007/10/28/ installing-postgres-8-2-on-leopard-includes-system-account http://acts-as-blog.net/2007/11/4/postgresql-auf-mac-os-x-10-5 (in german) … Weiterlesen

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Integrating Ruby GetText with ActiveScaffold

About half a year ago I wrote a snippet of code to make the GetText package for the Ruby programming language to work with ActiveScaffold, a highly configurable dynamic editing facility for Ruby On Rails applications. I published this as … Weiterlesen

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Mac OS X Leopard: A Collection Of Pitfalls And Workarounds

This post describes the problems I encountered while upgrading to Mac OS X 10.5 “Leopard” and their solutions (where possible) in the order encountered, which may be of significance for a certain problem to be reproducable or not. Weiterlesen

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