Running io.js builds on travis
2015/02/08 /
Update: As Keith pointed out, Travis rolled out a newer version of NVM just some days ago. Having that in place it's actually super easy to get started:
node_js:
- "0.10"
- iojs-v1.1.0
That's it :) And while you can now go and add the lovely supporter badge to your projects, I will try to find out how to not miss those changes from Travis anymore... (Do they have a changelog?)
Original post: With the release of io.js 1.0 many Node.JS developers were asking for respective b
Read onEven more contentful ruby apps
2014/09/24 / content management, ruby, service /
Some weeks ago I posted about kickstarting a ruby application with Contentful as its data backend. Now that I gained some field experience with that setup, it made some caveats pretty obvious. This blog post will show you some improvements and also some nicites we added to our app in the last weeks.
We found out that the previously suggested approach had three major issues, which get addressed in this post:
The configuration was in the model.
The models weren't clearly namespaced.
The mode
Read onChasm - Preview
2014/09/21 / games, early access, kickstarter /
When I thought about plans for the weekend, I had in mind to fix some Sequelize CLI issues and to extend one of my personal projects I'm currently working on. This has been until I opened this one lovely email with the subject "Project Update #37: Chasm by Discord Games LLC". The first sentence read "Anyone who backed at $25+ can play the Alpha build right now!", which made me instantly stop everything I was doing and forced me to open the Humble Key Resender. After recei
Read onFarewell make ... Hello gulp ...
2014/09/05 / node.js, task runner, gulp, make /
At work, we recently decided to switch our JavaScript coding style from a chaotic mess to a more consistant, disciplined and streamlined masterpiece. In order to achieve that goal, we decided to include JSHint in our build process and to configure it as strict as possible. As our codebase is relatively young, it was quite easy to get things green and to make the linter happy. Inspired by this move and by the consistent code style that followed, I thought about making the Sequelize CLI compatible
Read onContentful ruby apps
2014/08/19 / content management, ruby, service /
Lately I was playing with the content management service Contentful and its ruby gem contentful.rb. In this article you will learn how to kickstart your … contentful … ruby application!
Contentful is a cloud-based and API-driven content management system that allows the user to structure his data via so-called content models. Those models are the blueprint for the to-be-stored information. One could think of them as database tables which have specific schemata. Once defined the user can create
Read oneurucamp 2013 - A recap. [Part I]
2013/09/16 /
Some weeks a go some colleagues of mine and me were attending the
eurucamp 2013 at the lovely Mggelsee in Berlin. Besides the nice
location, the European Ruby Camp did not only provide tasty coffee but
also a whole bunch of interesting talks and workshops. This article will
summarize the most interesting parts.
Workshop: Up & Running with Ember.js
The first course Ive attended has been the Ember.js workshop. Also this
has been the first contact with the eurucamp wifi
To be polite: It wasnt
Read onWii U: Some impressions
2012/12/02 / games, wii u, consoles /
[Tokyoship](//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Tokyoship "User:Tokyoship"),
[Wikimedia
Commons](//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wii_U_controller_illustration.svg)
When I left the office on last friday evening, I was looking forward to
unpacking the just arrived Wii U. On my way home it already bugged me,
thatI didn’t manage to order an external hard drive for the tons of
games I’m going to download soon via the built-in eShop. So I arrived at
home and setup the cables for the Wii U. I nicely
Read onCubi - details about my entry
2012/09/16 /
It’s been a long time since my last post… However, I haven’t been lazy,
but worked on multiple things over the last few month. The funniest
project in the last weeks/months was my entry for
js13kgames called
Cubi. In this post I want
to present the game and some nice tweaks I added for achieving the right
file size.
js13kgames
"Js13kGames is a JavaScript coding competition for HTML5 game
developers. The fun part of the compo is the file size limit set to 13
kilobytes". Also the main th
Read onCubi - My entry for js13kgames
2012/09/05 /
Today I submitted my entry for the coding competition
js13kgames! Would be pretty cool to win that
Impact game engine :) Cubi is a classic tower defense game, which comes
with 13 types of monsters and 3 types of towers. You can give it a try
here:) I will write a summary
about some tweaks I added later.
Read onKitty Face Detection
2012/06/16 /
Kitty Face Detection
Ever wanted to find cats in pictures? No? Fair enough ;D However, …, you
might want to give this a try.
Read onHi, in Sequelize JS is it possible to refer to a model twice from another model? For example, if in Project I would like one User reference for the...
2012/01/15 /
Hi!
Yes this is possible. You have to add the ‘as’-option to your
definition. Take a look at this part of the
documentation.
Hope that helps
Read onHi, I'm using the Dawanda jQuery RSS code to aggregate an RSS feed to a news website I'm building, and it runs great so long as I only run a single...
2012/01/13 /
Hmm that should actually work … Mhh can you please open an issue on
github and add a link to page where this problem can be replayed? Thanks
a lot :)
Read onChanges in Sequelize 1.3.0
2012/01/04 /
Sequelize v1.3.0 was just released and comes with some funky new
features and some minor refactorings, which you should know about. Most
important things are: Migrations, validations, cross-database support
and new event-listener notation.
Model#all is now a function and not a getter
In earlier versions it was possible to get all entries of a model with
the following command:
User.all.success(function(users){})
This has changed and the all-getter was refactored to be a function.
This way it is
Read onGreetings! Not sure if this is the best place to ask, but I've got a sequelize question for you: is there a way to define something like a custom...
2012/01/02 /
Hi!
For now it is not possible to add a special data type. But you could use
the boolean datatype for the ‘sex’-attribute and add a gender method
which evaluates the attribute and returns ‘male’ or ‘female’ as value.
Take a look at
http://sequelizejs.com/?active=expanding-models#expanding-models
and
http://sequelizejs.com/?active=data-types#data-types
for further information. What do you think?
With best regards,
Sascha
Read onChanges in Sequelize 1.2.1
2011/11/04 /
This post summarizes changes in Sequelize
v1.2.1. It is highly recommended to read this post due to some changes
in default values and interfaces. There are also some minor, but very
cool new features.
Global options for models
In Sequelize v1.2.1 I’ve refactored the not so officially communicated
possibility to define Sequelize-wide options, which are passed to the
Models in multiple cases. I will explain the usage in the following, for
now let’s see how it was before and how it has changed:
v
Read onTheme Hospital on Mac OS X with Boxer 1.1.1
2011/10/08 /
Hey Mac gamers, about an year ago I wrote an article
about,
how to get Theme Hospital work on Mac OS X. Because that post is very
old and things have changed, here is an updated how-to.
Install Boxer.
Move the extracted file to the Applications folder.
Get a copy of the game. I just used a copy (ISO file) of my old cd.
Open Boxer.
Choose “Import a new game”.
Throw the ISO file / disk drive from the Finder into the wizard,
saying “Drop your game here.”
Choose setup.exe (was default for me).
Sele
Read onJSConf.EU 2011 - Summary of the 2nd Day
2011/10/07 /
And that’s it. JSConf.EU 2011 is done. Great conf! Here is my summary
about the second day’s talks.
High density server side java script
The first talk of the day was by Tomasz
Janczuk about High density server side
java
script.
The microsoft speaker was talking about possibilities to lower hosting
costs for lightweight applications (actual node apps). He assumed costs
of 5 per month as current normal hosting costs. Way too much, according
to him. Tomasz splitted the currently process based host
Read onJSConf.EU 2011 - Summary of the 1st Day
2011/10/02 /
Alright, …, day 1 of the JSConf.EU is done and while other are trying to
minimize the results of the after show party I’ll try to summerize the
(visited) talks:
Art
Not a talk at all but a very nice detail was the artist Anna Lena
Schiller. The Frulein (see the
website) created an artwork for each of the talks in the downstairs
area.
Plask
The first talk was by Dean McNamee
about the multimedia programming environment
Plask. It might be my inability to completely
understand native american speak
Read onHey, I just started using Sequelize and was wondering if you support inserting BLOB data? If not, can you recommend some solution? Thanks!
2011/10/02 /
Hmm you are right, that’s missing :) Can you please open a tickket on
github ? For the moment i recommend using a text column and manually
converting the data.
You can also send me a pull request if you want to. if so, don’t forget
the tests ;)
Read onJSConf.EU
2011/10/01 /
This weekend I will pause writing my master thesis
(aboutsequelizebtw.) andattending the
javascript conferenceJSConf.EUfor the first time.
Doing so, I will hopefully get a lot of inspiration for future work and
projects. I will every once and while post about some topics, not sure
if in the blog or viatwitter.
This is my schedule for the next two days:
Day 1
Breakfast 2011-10-01 08:30
Opening 2011-10-01 09:15
Plask 2011-10-01 09:30
jsPerf (upstairs) 2011-10-01 10:30
Kaffeepause 2011-10-01 11:00
Read onChanges in Sequelize 1.0.0
2011/05/28 /
With Sequelize 1.0.0 the project was completly rewritten and had some
major api changes, which will break your app, if you dont fix em. This
post summarizes all changes and points out improvements and new
features.
Logging
Disable logging of Sequelize is not longer realized via the options
disableLogging:true, but with logging:false. So you now have to do
this:
new Sequelize(config.database, config.username, config.password, { logging: false})
Chaining
Sequelize.chainQueries was replaced by Se
Read on[sdepold] Sharing Rubymine preferences via Dropbox
2011/05/26 /
devanda:
Motivation
If you are using Rubymine (like ~50% of the DaWanda devs is), you
might have got the idea of sharing your preferenceswith multiple
computers. Because most of us are coding on Apple hardware, this
description is for MacOSX, butwill work similarly on linux as well.
The naive way
When thinking about sharing stuff on multiple devices, you will
stumble across Dropbox. The first and obvious way is movingyour
preferences folder into it and symlinking it into the origin place:
mv ~
Read onsvalts:
Spiderpig - by Thong Le
(Via: herochan)
2011/05/26 /
svalts:
Spiderpig - by Thong
Le
(Via: herochan)
Read onI'm looking at "Connecting Up MongoDB" at this page http://dailyjs.com/2010/11/08/node-tutorial-2/<br />
<br />
I've looked thru the examples at...
2011/05/04 /
hey there, thanks tumblr i just got your message now :D I also have no
clue when you asked me. If I understand right, you want to define your
models in an extra file?
Read onWorking with ssh keys
2011/05/02 /
This is mostly a reminder for myself. But maybe you are also interested
in this :)
So this is the way you can access a server via ssh without getting asked
about passwords:
1. Create a SSH key. You might want to take a look at
this to get one.
2. Copy the result of the following command:cat .ssh/id_rsa.pub
3. Connect to the server: ssh user@server.tld + Enter password
4. Create the .ssh folder if not yet done:mkdir ~/.
Read onIs there anyone out who has ever got senseful things via the app stores genius function? I’ve just fucking installed nova2 so … wtf?...
2011/02/17 /
Is there anyone out who has ever got senseful things via the app stores
genius function? I’ve just fucking installed nova2 so … wtf? because of
trenches???
Read onThat’s the way the internet works! via http://www.lowbird.com/data/images/2011/01/hayungs-website.jpg
2011/01/19 /
That’s the way the internet works! via
http://www.lowbird.com/data/images/2011/01/hayungs-website.jpg
Read onMac Dashboard Plugin for dict.cc
2011/01/09 /
Mac Dashboard Plugin for
dict.cc
christianreber:
I use it nearly every day!
Read onCan the new mac store update already installed applications?
2011/01/08 /
Can the new mac store update already installed
applications?
The Mac Store was just released and many people are wondering if the
store can just update already installed applications. The posted link
gives you the answer :)
Read onCreating spaces in the Mac OS X dock
2011/01/06 /
Creating spaces in the Mac OS X dock
This video shows a way to add spaces to the Mac OS X dock. This is great
if you want to group programs. For example you could seperate multiple
folders into a specific group or split your iWork/Office suite from
other stuff. IMHO the spaces could be a little bit less wide.
Ah and if you want more than one space, just re-run the mentioned
command and kill the dock again.
BTW. that’s the command:
defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-apps -array-add
‘{“tile
Read onJust found this little typo in the iphone game “Funny Sango TD”… haha
2010/12/26 /
Just found this little typo in the iphone game Funny Sango TD haha
Read onReTweetie
2010/12/16 /
ReTweetie
One major reason for switching from Tweetie for Mac to Echofon was the
missing native retweeting function. Nick Paulson just released
ReTweetie, which fixes that issue.
Read onLoading an image asynchronously in C#
2010/12/13 /
Loading an image asynchronously in
C#
I just needed a way to load images asynchronously in a Windows Phone 7
application. This article explains the very nice way to go. I just
shortened the presented code a little bit:
private void updateImage(Image i, Uri uri){ WebClient client = new WebClient(); client.OpenReadCompleted += new
OpenReadCompletedEventHandler(delegate(object sender,
OpenReadCompletedEventArgs e) { BitmapImage imageToLoad = new BitmapImage(); imageToLoad.SetSource(e.Result as Str
Read onDeploying a Node.JS web application with Express and nDistro
2010/08/30 /
As I finished my first real Node.JS app last week, I was looking for a
nice way to deploy the application easily to my server. I found a very
long articleusing upstart and Spark, which I thought is way to
complicated. I went on for another way and finally stopped at a project
called nDistro, which is less a
deployment tool but a handy one for getting dependencies work.
Hello World
Before diving into the deployment stuff, let’s create an example
application printing Hello World in the browser:
[
Read onDuplicating a bucket on Amazon S3 with Ruby
2010/06/12 /
Due to my studies I’m currently working with the Amazon Services Elastic
Compute Cloud (EC2) and the Simple Storage Service (S3).
I wanted to easyly duplicate a bucket on S3 but found no method to do
so. So I just wrote a script in Ruby which just makes a copy of each key
in a source bucket to a target bucket. At first I tried the script on my
local machine but stopped that due to my slow internet connection. Soooo
I went over to EC2 and started an instance, configured it and tadaa,..,
got every
Read onPassing arguments/parameters using the node command
2010/05/21 /
I recently wanted to pass some parameters to my .js file just from the
commandline using the node command. Because I didn’t found an answer
on Google, but in a project on Github, I want to let you know how it
works.
Let’s say you have a script named foo.js. Run the following command:
node foo.js myParameter
In your script you can now access the attached parameters with:
process.ARGV
You will get:
[ ‘node’ , ‘/path/to/foo.js’ ,’myParameter’ ]
I needed something like that, to pass a boolean.
Read onRender collections with layout in Rails
2010/03/27 /
Today I found a very strange behavior of Ruby on Rails. I wanted to
render a partial using the collection option. So far so normal. But: I
needed the result to be wrapped with some stuff, so I found out, that
you can just specify a layout! What I expected to get was something
like:
Layout Layout Layout <%= yield %> <—- this should be filled with my partial Layout
Layout Layout
So this is what I executed:
my_array = [“hello”, “world”] render(:partial => “test”, :collection => my
Read onNode.JS + Express on Snow Leopard
2010/03/24 /
Hey folks! Today I wil take some time to get started with Node.JS and
the Express framework. You are maybe interested in how to get this stuff
run on Snow Leopard. You need to have XCode installed.
So here is what I did:
Prerequisite
Before diving into the NodeJS world I highly recommend you the usage
if kiwi. Kiwi is a NodeJS package manager.
git clone git://github.com/visionmedia/kiwi.gitcd kiwisudo make installsudo kiwi install kiwi
You will probably ask why you should install kiwi with kiw
Read onDisabling error reporting of PHP on Snow Leopard
2010/03/20 /
Due to my studies I’m currently working with Typo 3. I wanted to setup
the CMS on my Snow Leopard based MacBook and ended in a bunch of
warnings. Most of them informed about the use of deprecated function
calls. First I just thought: Well that’s not my business! BUT: Because
warnings are passed to the browser just when they appear, PHP is not
more able to redirect to another page using PHPs header function.
To disable the so-called error_reporting do the following:
sudo cp /etc/php.ini.default
Read onBlogging with TextMate
2010/03/15 /
As you may have already noticed I’m looking for a possibility to write
my blogposts with a desktop application. I just tested RapidWeaver which
is a really cool tool, but where you have to pay for such silly stuff as
a search function. 15 bucks I really know to use more senseful!
So I just spend my time surfing the net for some cool apps doing such
things. On my way I found out, that TextMate also has a so-called
blogging bundle. So I watched the screencast and decided to give it a
try.
Really i
Read onMacHeist nanoBundle 2
2010/03/06 /
Hey folks. MacHeist is currently selling its new mac apps bundle,
containing the following 10 programs:
MacJournal
RipIt
Clips
CoverScout
Flow
Tales of Monkey Island
RapidWeaver
Tracks
Airburst Extreme
Burning Monkey Solitaire
MacJounal
This tool lets you write blog entries offline. Just push them to your
server when you are online again. Im currently testing it and am a
little bit disappointed about the few delivered features. Maybe Im just
blind and unable to find them, but shouldnt a blog p
Read onFXRuby: Oooh nice?
2010/02/03 /
Just found FXRuby - as far as I currently know
it is a Desktop App GUI Framework for Ruby. Because I just wondered
which programming language is the one to use for desktop apps, I
promptly installed the gem with the following command:
sudo gem install fxruby
After some seconds of installation process I ran the interactive ruby
shell (irb) and did the following (copied from the tutorial page):
require ‘fox16’ include Fox theApp = FXApp.new theMainWindow = FXMainWindow.new(theApp, “Hello”) theA
Read onQuakeLive on Mac OS X
2010/01/29 /
Today I just found the free-to-play Quake III - Port
QuakeLive.
When entering the site you can find the an image, telling you, that
QuakeLive is easy to join…
So I registered and… got stucked in that fucking installation process
you have to succeed before being able to play. So what is that
installation stuff about? You have to download a plugin that
providesfunctionality for the browser. That’s just the way it is when
playing Battlefield Heroes.
When trying to run the game, it will ask you to
Read onTheme Hospital on Mac OS X
2010/01/22 /
UPDATE
I updated the article for the latest version of Boxer. You can find the
post
here.
Original post:
I just found a nice app for playing DOS games on mac os x without this
fucking DOSBox configuration shit.It’s called Boxer and to get Theme
Hospital work, follow these steps:
Attention: Due to the localized folder names, the apps are possibly
named in another way.
Download Boxer from
here
Open the disk image and copy the Boxer app to your harddisk.
Run the app. It will configure some stuff
Read onFuture Posts
2010/01/21 /
Once I finished this nightmarish first semester of my master studies, I
want to write some new posts. Here are the topics you can expect to see
somewhat soon on my blog:
Setting up and using Silenium
Some stuff I did in my bachelor studies
Tutorials and presentations of my github projects
rateable_attributes
Autocompleter.Local.MultiContent
So stay tuned, take out your mojos and rub the magic lanterns you
possibly have in your shelf. I need all luck you can find, haha!
Read onNice way to create HashMaps in Java
2009/12/21 /
In my blog post from december 14th, 2009 I posted a way to create
HashMaps on-the-fly:
http://depold.tumblr.com/post/2069109153/hashmaps-on-the-fly
Today I just released a helper collection (currently only containing one
helper :D) for Java-Stuff. The contained helper is a MapBuilder, which
allows you to create HashMaps in Java in an easy way. Including the
class you can just do the following:
Map map = MapBuilder.build(``"key1", 123,"key2", 345,"key3", 456 );
So
Read onHashMaps on-the-fly
2009/12/14 /
Da ich derzeit studienbedingt mit Java hantiere, fiel mir auf, was fr
ein Krampf das Erstellen von HashMaps in Java ist. Vom Durchiterieren
sei an dieser Stelle noch gar nicht die Rede!
Da ich aus der JavaScript/Ruby-Welt komme und dort Hashes Gang und Gebe
sind, war ich leicht schockiert :D
Wie also kann man eine HashMap erzeugen?
Map<String, List<String» map = new HashMap<String, List<String»();
map.put(“key”, new ArrayList<String>());Map<String, List<String>> ma
Read onMitarbeit / Collaboration an einem Heroku-Projekt
2009/10/03 / Heroku /
Wer zur Mitarbeit an einem Heroku Projekt eingeladen wird, muss entgegen
der Anleitung auf
http://docs.heroku.com/sharing zuvor
noch einen zustzlichen Schritt durchfhren. Versucht man direkt einen
Checkout des Projektes, schlgt dieser Vorgang fehl.
git clone -o heroku git@heroku.com:myapp.gitInitialized empty Git repository in /Users/user/Projects/myapp/.git/Permission denied (publickey). fatal: The remote end hung up unexpecte
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