I found this little gem in a bog standard boring, run of the mill newsagents in Berlin, Zoologischer Garten. Perhaps Germany is more tech friendly but having monthly Ruby on Rails, PHP, .Net and Java monthlies is is quite crazy for what would be a small readership.

Available at http://it-republik.de/railsway/magazin-ausgaben/Ruby-on-Rails-000281.html

Nice little and verbose script to aid with the creation of remote git repos.

http://blog.carlmercier.com/2008/01/25/no-nonsense-git-part-1-git-remote-branch/

git-remote-branch create sv1.8

or to track an already existing remote branch

git branch --track sv1.8 origin/sv1.8

Why does IE8 ignore this, grrrrrrrrr.

<!--[if lt IE 8]>
<script src="http://oursite.com/ie8.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<![endif]-->

It seems that the ie8.js script doesn’t like being used inside a frame.
http://dean.edwards.name/weblog/2008/01/ie7-2/

Hi dean,

First of all great work. I have a problem when I use your script inside a frame (ugly, I know). I get a permission denied on ‘if(/ie7_off/.test(top.location.search)||k<5)’.

Any thoughts on a quick fix?

Thanks, Ronald Moolenaar

I really do love the way you can add defaults in YAML

development: &defaults
  consumer_key: randomzombieaction
  consumer_secret: morerandomzombieaction
test: 
  <<: *defaults
staging:
  <<: *defaults
production:
  <<: *defaults

Who will win?

Who will win?

Knocked this one up earlier today to get my Songkick gig listings on this here blog. Maybe its just the novelty of having some gigs to go to and a bit of showing off that we’re running off to Germany for 11 days of mayhem and we’ve not learned how to speak the language yet.

$(document).ready(function () {

  var template = "<li><a href='{uri}'>{displayName}</a></li>";
  var apikey = '<your apikey>';
  var container = $("ul#concerts");

  $.getJSON('http://api.songkick.com/api/3.0/users/<your songkick username>/events.json?apikey=' + apikey + '&jsoncallback=?', function(data) {
    container.html("");
    events = data["resultsPage"]["results"]['event'];
    $.each(events.reverse(), function() {
      container.append($.nano(template, this));
    });
  });

});

Our new project Pledge Music went into Alpha just over a week ago and by all accounts its been a success.

“Pledge Music is a way for fans to help their favourite artists make records and raise money for charity. By combining new social networking technology, fan incentives and old school music biz know how, fans can visit the site to not only hear great new music, but also share the experience with friends and get actively involved in what they are listening to.”

We launched on two platforms Facebook and Pledge Music with our first project Another Last Goodbye by Marwood. The project aimed to raise $5000 in order record a CD with a percentage of the profits going to Amnesty International and met its target with 7 days of launch which we’re very pleased with.

Now we have a successful Alpha test, Marwood are entering the studio to record their album over the next few weeks and we look forward to hearing the album very soon.

Now the real work begins as we do a last push to move through Beta and into a full release over the next month with another 9 projects already in the pipeline. Go team.

http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Home