http://blogs.gerbilsofwar.com/limi dabbling, frivolling, idling, loafing, loitering, playing and procrastinating Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:04:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en If you use Synergy with Ubuntu and a Windows system you may find when you press the @ key, you infact end up with the Ω symbol, which is'nt very useful (especially if your coding Rails). After some quick searching, I found a blog and some forum discussions about the fix, ... http://blogs.gerbilsofwar.com/limi/2009/06/05/ubuntu-synergy-symbol-problem/ So I think it's about time I give a general update as to where I am with my various personal projects... Snapr Photo Gallery I had Snapr running on my local server for quite a while, however it being there meant I couldn't really show my photos to the world as it ... http://blogs.gerbilsofwar.com/limi/2009/04/15/catch-up-time/ I recently upgraded a laptop of mine from Intrepid Ibex to the Jaunty Jackalope beta, and wanted to get Rails development up to speed on there. However it seems that I fell into the usual pit hole when installing Ruby on Ubuntu that simply going... sudo apt-get install ruby ...isnt enough, and ... http://blogs.gerbilsofwar.com/limi/2009/04/02/ubuntu-jaunty-and-ruby-mkmf-loaderror/ How didn't you know? Every mother and his dog is on the train to flogging gamers for all their worth, so why aren't you? Soon you can be making the millions from this clearly untapped market! Honestly, there's been loads of attempts that clearly worked, just look at these websites for ... http://blogs.gerbilsofwar.com/limi/2009/02/09/playing-games-for-cash-works-dont-you-know/ In patch 3.0.8 Steady Shot was nurfed by 10% damage, so I have re-written my mashable macro a little to weave in Arcane Shot to increase it's damage. #showtooltip Auto Shot /cast Kill Shot /castsequence reset=shift/target Hunter's Mark, null /castsequence reset=target/3/alt Arcane Shot, Serpent Sting, Steady Shot, Steady Shot, Arcane Shot, Steady Shot, Steady ... http://blogs.gerbilsofwar.com/limi/2009/01/21/wotlk-308-bm-hunter-mashable-macro-v1-1/ Right, as we all know back in the days of old Napster ruled supreme. There was no contest about that and everyone I knew who was on-line was using it, however it obviously was highly illegal. Since then many companies have tried to ressurect Napster in many different forms from ... http://blogs.gerbilsofwar.com/limi/2009/01/15/spotify-everyone-loves-free-legal-music/ WARNING - THIS MACRO HAS BEEN UPGRADED, THE NEW VERSION CAN BE FOUND HERE After a very long stretch of not playing around with macro's in WoW, I decided to see just how far the legal macro system could be pushed. After various browsing, testing and changing I've come up with ... http://blogs.gerbilsofwar.com/limi/2009/01/10/wotlk-level-80-beast-mastery-hunter-mashable-macro/ An odd titled name for something that I had to remember how to do today. If you need to sort something by the number of its has_many object, eg... Album has_many photos, listing albums with the most photos first Forum has_many posts, listing forums with the most posts first Group has_many users, listing ... http://blogs.gerbilsofwar.com/limi/2009/01/06/rails-sorting-a-model-by-has_many-associations/ Just a quick post to say that this is probably my track of the month. Originally found it through the film 21 and it also just got awarded "#3 Hottest New Music of 2008" by Last.fm http://blogs.gerbilsofwar.com/limi/2008/12/02/mgmt-time-to-pretend/ Had to go look this up today as we are using more named_scopes at work now, although couldn't off the top of my head remember how to get a named_scope to take an argument nicely. Anyway, the solution is... named_scope :recent, lambda { |*args| {:conditions => ["created_at >= ?", (args.first || ... http://blogs.gerbilsofwar.com/limi/2008/11/26/rails-named_scope-taking-arguments-with-lambda/