http://jan.varwig.org Somewhere between Hello World and HAL9000 Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:00:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Yesterday I pushed the changes introducing the Multiline editor to REST in Place I announced last week. The definition of forms for editing inline-content is now separated from the Code that deals with Ajax and editing state. This makes it very easy to extend REST in Place with your own Editors. I also ... http://jan.varwig.org/archive/rest-in-place-now-with-multiline-editor Today, the Rails team finally released the first beta of [Rails 3](http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2010/2/5/rails-3-0-beta-release). Trying to play around with it, I experienced a very annoying problem with mongrel: Per default, Rails seems to only work with the gems listed in its Gemfile, which means that it starts using webrick. I wanted it to use mongrel, ... http://jan.varwig.org/archive/rails-3-and-mongrel This week, I'll roll out a major update to [REST in Place](http://github.com/janv/rest_in_place/). I have completely restructured the code and made the Plugin much more object-oriented, modular and maintainable. Existing installations should be able to upgrade without a hitch. The most important change for users will be the jQuery 1.4 support ... http://jan.varwig.org/archive/rest-in-place-major-update-ahead Hier die Folien zu meinem Ruby Metaprogramming Talk vom RailsCamp 3 http://jan.varwig.org/archive/ruby-metaprogramming-rcg3 I'm using a US-keyboard since the German layout hides the important characters needed by programmers *all the time* behind impossible three-finger gestures. To be able to quickly enter umlauts on the US keyboard, I've been using the **USGerman** layout found [here](http://hci.rwth-aachen.de/USGermanKeyboard). In Snow Leopard, this layout bundle causes a horrible **bug in the ... http://jan.varwig.org/archive/keyboard-layout-german-us-leopard [singlepic id=18 w=400 float=center] [singlepic id=20 w=400 float=center] [singlepic id=19 h=400 float=center] Berlin always fascinates me. I've wanted to live and work there since I was a child. My parents got to know each other and still have friends in Moabit. Because of that I've been visiting the city almost every ... http://jan.varwig.org/archive/photos-berlin Earlier today I uploaded some changes to this Wordpress installation. The first is a small layout update, introducing the sidebar on the right, the second is the installation of the Nextgen Gallery plugin. With Nextgen I want to present my photos in a way different from flickr. This also marks the beginning ... http://jan.varwig.org/archive/site-changes [9elements](http://9elements.com), who are totally awesome btw., released an impressive [HTML5 Canvas demo](http://9elements.com/io/?p=153) yesterday: > HTML5 is getting a lot of love lately. With the arrival of FireFox 3.5, Safari 4 and the new 3.0 beta of Google Chrome, browsers support some great new features including canvas and the new audio/video tags. ... http://jan.varwig.org/archive/html5-canvas-experiment A certain type of camera straps has become popular recently. These straps are worn diagonally over your chest and allow the camera to slide freely on the strap. If you're not shooting, the camera rests on your hip, doesn't strain your neck and leaves both your hands free. If you ... http://jan.varwig.org/archive/12euro-camera-strap (Sorry, content in german only for this post) Ende 2007 habe ich bei [9elements](http://www.9elements.com/) einen Crashkurs zu Ruby on Rails gegeben. Da mich inzwischen schon mehrere Leute gefragt haben ob ich die Folien nicht mal rausgeben möchte, tue ich das jetzt. Die Folien sind absichtlich so gestaltet, dass sie auch ausserhalb des Vortrags ... http://jan.varwig.org/archive/ruby-on-rails-extremcrashkurs