Stephen Provis

Well done that man

admin — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 15:45:25 +0000

Is it just me or does anyone else find Simon Cowell’s version of Everybody Hurts painfull to the ears, inappropriate and offensive?
Telling people that have been through a disaster such as this and who may have lost everyone they knew ‘not to worry, everybody hurts, your not alone’ is not the most subtle thing to say.

Found this video - reminds me of the good old days..

admin — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 02:48:50 +0000

Ruby, haml and sass make everything ok

admin — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 02:22:34 +0000

As a relatively new coder of Ruby on Rails the last few months have been a big learning curve, the MCV (Model, Controller, View) approach is new to me and getting my head around the way RoR deals with this coding model has been long and confusing, the amount of time I’ve spent trying to work out why my code isn’t working is ridiculous. A lot of the problems have been due to me trying to rush into things without really having the background knowledge to know what I’m doing.

But after a few months I’m getting the know the basics and have been able to produce some stunning results that would have taken a lot more time/effort in other programming languages. With the help of Ruby Gems like Inherited Resources and Formtastic a lot of the more mundane code has been completed for me - this is a good thing!

I’ve always found coding in HTML really boring and so with a bit of assistance and guidance I’ve managed to get into using haml and sass instead. For anyone interested go take a look - it’s very nice, saves you a lot of time as you no longer need code fragments such as html closing tags and has a lot of powerful features (many of which I haven’t had the time to look into yet but am planning on getting into sass calculations (basically CSS + Maths)) allowing for further time savings.

I’m currently working on a php projects and the amount of code I’m having to write for simple features like adding a basic CMS system is crazy - I keep forgetting to add a ; to the end of php lines, try to use haml indentation on html and generally getting annoyed with the amount of key presses needed for code that shouldn’t need to be written.

Ruby on Rails, along with the gems available, are almost zen-like when it comes to writing code - give them a look if you haven’t already done so.

Real World Mario Kart by Remi Gaillard

admin — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:02:21 +0000

More from Remi here http://www.youtube.com/user/nqtv

Walkthrough for installing Ruby and Rails on a clean (new) installation of Ubuntu.

admin — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 11:47:38 +0000

Assumptions:

Ubuntu has just been installed

Steps:

Installing Apache2
Installing MySQL
Installing Ruby
Installing RubyGems
Installing Rails
Installing Essential Gems and Plugins
Setting Gems in Environment.rb

Installing Apache2:

sudo apt-get install apache2

Installing MySQL:

sudo apt-get install mysql-server
sudo apt-get install mysql-client
sudo apt-get install libmysqlclient15-dev

Installing Ruby:

sudo apt-get install ruby
sudo apt-get install ruby-dev
sudo aptitude install libmysql-ruby1.8
sudo apt-get install irb
sudo apt-get install libopenssl-ruby1.8

Installing RubyGems:

sudo apt-get install rubygems

Installing Rails:

gem install rails
gem install mysql

Let’s conduct a quick test to see if all is well:

irb
#irb(main):001:0>
require ‘mysql’
true
#irb(main):002:0>
exit

Installing Essential Gems and Plugins

gem install haml
gem install rake
gem sources -a http://gemcutter.org
gem tumble
gem tumble
gem install inherited_resources
gem install formtastic

Setting Gems in Environment.rb

config.gem ‘inherited_resources’,
:lib => ‘inherited_resources’,
:version => ‘= 0.9.1′,
:source => ‘http://gems.github.com’
config.gem ‘haml’
config.gem ‘formtastic’

Heh about time I did something with this site

admin — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 10:17:51 +0000

With the darkness drawing in I think I’ll have a bit of spare time to do something with this site….

Idea’s on a postcard

(D.n.B) - Memories

admin — Wed, 27 May 2009 21:09:36 +0000

17th Boulevard - Memories (D.n.B)

Bob Marley - War

admin — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 12:04:04 +0000

Until the philosophy which hold one race superior
And another
Inferior
Is finally
And permanently
Discredited
And abandoned -
Everywhere is war -
Me say war.

That until there no longer
First class and second class citizens of any nation
Until the colour of a mans skin
Is of no more significance than the colour of his eyes -
Me say war.

That until the basic human rights
Are equally guaranteed to all,
Without regard to race -
Dis a war.

That until that day
The dream of lasting peace,
World citizenship
Rule of international morality
Will remain in but a fleeting illusion to be pursued,
But never attained -
Now everywhere is war - war.

And until the ignoble and unhappy regimes
That hold our brothers in angola,
In mozambique,
South africa
Sub-human bondage
Have been toppled,
Utterly destroyed -
Well, everywhere is war -
Me say war.

War in the east,
War in the west,
War up north,
War down south -
War - war -
Rumours of war.
And until that day,
The african continent
Will not know peace,
We africans will fight - we find it necessary -
And we know we shall win
As we are confident
In the victory

Of good over evil -
Good over evil, yeah!
Good over evil -
Good over evil, yeah!
Good over evil -
Good over evil, yeah! /fadeout/