UrbanTakeover soup

"“# view # controller auto_complete_for :contact, :name”"

Sun, 11 May 2008 09:32:19 GMT

"“

# view

# controller
auto_complete_for :contact, :name

”"

–— script.aculo.us - web 2.0 javascript demos

"“We recently introduced a new feature in autoki called the social feed...."

Fri, 09 May 2008 09:55:51 GMT

"“We recently introduced a new feature in autoki called the social feed. It’s basically a yellow box displaying any events on the platform relevant to the current user, like a friend has posted a new photo, or a new interesting car was uploaded. The data model behind this is pretty straightforward, we have a FeedEvent class and all kinds of subclasses, e.g. a MessageReceivedEvent. Each event belongs to a user and an event source, in this example the user would be the user who received the message and the event source would be the message itself. For each user, we simply display all the events that belong to him or her.”"

–— upstream agile - software » Using and Testing ActiveRecord/Rails Observers

packaging for free sticker packs? via www.trappertricks.de

Mon, 05 May 2008 13:13:52 GMT

packaging for free sticker packs? via www.trappertricks.de

Ceci nÂ´est pas le capitalismeâ€¦ (via rebel:art Â» Blog Archive Â» Ceci nÂ´est pas le capitalismeâ€¦)

Thu, 01 May 2008 03:51:50 GMT

Ceci n´est pas le capitalisme… (via rebel:art » Blog Archive » Ceci n´est pas le capitalisme…)

or maybe it is…

now with sparklines via google graphs (aka google charts)

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 10:28:34 GMT

now with sparklines via google graphs (aka google charts)

What’s Wrong with this Picture?

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 00:11:25 GMT

What’s Wrong with this Picture?

might have to consider that for flickr foto proofs in the usa.

In general git has some terrible cryptic error messages.

Sat, 12 Apr 2008 20:18:50 GMT

from Stories from the Land of Rob:

My favourite example is if you modify a file and then pull a change that modifies that file before you commit it:

Updating beb8c37..b953e6f test: needs update fatal: Entry 'test' not uptodate. Cannot merge.

WTF? what does uptodate mean? why isn’t it up to date? whats gone wrong? what should i do?
Surely something like:

Cancelling pull as 'test' has changes that would be overwritten by this pull. Please commit your changes or force an overwrite using the '--force' flag

would be a lot better?

"Twitter As An Early Stage Warning System For Brands And Companies"

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 09:46:51 GMT

"Twitter As An Early Stage Warning System For Brands And Companies"

–Comcast, Twitter And The Chicken (trust me, I have a point)

"» @status.created_at = Time.utc 2008, 1, 1 » @status.created_at"

Sun, 06 Apr 2008 07:37:25 GMT

"» @status.created_at = Time.utc 2008, 1, 1
» @status.created_at"

–Timezone awareness in Rails

Throbber generator

Sun, 06 Apr 2008 07:08:29 GMT

http://www.ajaxload.info/

new in urban takeover: the urban takeover mac application & get stickers.

Sun, 06 Apr 2008 06:53:26 GMT

new in urban takeover: the urban takeover mac application & get stickers.

Sparkline Graphs in Ruby

Sun, 06 Apr 2008 06:03:14 GMT

http://redhanded.hobix.com/inspect/sparklinesForMinimalists.html

claim that! (via claimrfk)

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 14:12:46 GMT

claim that! (via claimrfk)

Missing House (via Appealing)

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 23:12:52 GMT

Missing House (via Appealing)

fm4.ORF.at / Today's webtip: Urbantakeover

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 17:30:04 GMT

http://fm4.orf.at/daddyd/222104/main

" I’m a turncoat A traitor. A lowly dog. Up until this morning I was ..."

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 01:13:18 GMT

" I’m a turncoat
A traitor. A lowly dog. Up until this morning I was committed to helping team dirtychai take over Vienna. But then I changed my mind, decided to make the game urban takeover a webtip and form my own team to rule em all. Team_sheesh. And since I am telling you all about this little project by an Austrian developer I expect all of you to run out and join in, actively taking over bits of property in the name of team_sheesh. See the idea is that you can claim places for yourself or your team, and then post the location using the webform or sms, and get more and more area, fame and glory. Or something like that. Go check it out . And if you play, make sure you play for team_sheesh. urbantakeover.at"

–fm4.ORF.at / Today’s webtip: Urbantakeover

claiming europe :)

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 19:03:40 GMT

claiming europe :)

THANKS COMMUNITY!!!

also: flickr :D

Our manual we send with the stickers.

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 18:40:06 GMT

Our manual we send with the stickers.

"tumblr supports group blogs, which makes it easier for us to ... you know ......"

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 17:01:12 GMT

"tumblr supports group blogs, which makes it easier for us to ... you know ... group blog.

so we moved to http://blog.urbantakeover.at/

also: soup removed our google analytics. *grr"

–team uto

+= flickr

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 16:52:39 GMT

+= flickr

"To demonstrate:class MyClass private def say_hello(name) p..."

Sat, 29 Mar 2008 20:15:45 GMT

To demonstrate:

class MyClass
    private
    def say_hello(name)
        puts "Let's go back to my place, #{name}."
    end
end

my_object = MyClass.new

So we get smacked if we try:

> my_object.say_hello
Nomethoderror: private method `say_hello' called for #<MyClass:0x820b4>
	from (irb):8
	from :0

but instead:

> my_object.send :say_hello, "world"
Let's go back to my place, world.

Touché!

Now, honestly, this strikes me as odd. Conceptually, I don't see whysend should function differently from an ordinary method call with respect to access control.

–Josh Staiger: The Ruby send hack: how to gain access to an object's privates

Ask E.T.: Sparklines: theory and practice

Sat, 29 Mar 2008 20:15:27 GMT

http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0001OR&topic_id=1&topic=

Git - SVN Crash Course

Sat, 29 Mar 2008 20:15:19 GMT

git for slackers :D

http://git.or.cz/course/svn.html

Sparkline PHP Graphing Library

Sat, 29 Mar 2008 20:05:56 GMT

But where's the Ruby Version? -_-

http://sparkline.org/

" = Exception Notifier Plugin for Rails First, include the ExceptionNotifi..."

Sat, 29 Mar 2008 11:11:54 GMT

= Exception Notifier Plugin for Rails

First, include the ExceptionNotifiable mixin in whichever controller you want
to generate error emails (typically ApplicationController):

  class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
    include ExceptionNotifiable
    ...
  end

Then, specify the email recipients in your environment:

  ExceptionNotifier.exception_recipients = %w(joe@schmoe.com bill@schmoe.com)

And that's it! The defaults take care of the rest.

–script/plugin install http://svn.rubyonrails.org/rails/plugins/exception_notification/

I <3 Ruby On Rails

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 21:08:48 GMT

at my ruby nightjob i hack for fun. this is a part of the urbantakeover "who or what the fuck are you looking for?" just like Wikipedia's disambiguation pages.

The quick & dirty way only searches for Users and Spots at the moment, which works for astera (spot & user) but fails at metalab (spot & team).

Thus we'll hack together a dynamic solution:

stuff = []
[User, Spot, Team].each do |model_class|
    stuff << model_class.find_by_name params[:name]
end

if stuff.size == 1
  thing = stuff.first
  redirect_to :controller => thing.class.name.downcase, :action => 'show_by_name', :name => thing.name
else
  #shows a wikipedia style "disambiguation" page
  @things = stuff
  render :template => 'disambiguate'
end

note, i haven't tried this yet, but it *should* work.

eval is your friend

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 21:08:38 GMT

at my python dayjob i'm writing a chat protocol. it should be possible to extend the protocol later on by adding new subprotocols (command sets) to achieve this i use listeners for each additional subprotocol.

the quick and dirty way to get some is:

self.listeners = {
    'chat' : ChatListener(environment, self),
    'table' : TableListener(environment, self),
    'stats' : StatsListener(environment, self) }

but as soon as you have to add a lot of listeners it get's tedious to duplicate all the <code>*Listener(environment, self)</code> cruft.

so to keep things DRY i took the dynamic route:

listener_names = ['chat', 'table', 'stats', 'more', 'evenmoar', 'cthulhu', 'lol', 'catz']
self.listeners = {}
for listener_name in listener_names:
    _class = eval("%sListener" % listener_name.capitalize())
    self.listeners[listener] = _class(environment, self)

which looks super confusing, but is SUPER EFFECTIVE!

also circular references are teh suck. i want code running in contexts. to be able to omit the self parameter.

but maybe i'm doing it wrong.

@hacking @starred

Bam Oida! :-)

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 10:51:21 GMT

Bam Oida! :-)

[Reposted from upsidedown]

UTO invades hamburg (thanks astera) :D

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 10:47:43 GMT

UTO invades hamburg (thanks astera) :D

"1 799 U.S. dollars = 1 146 Euros"

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 10:36:01 GMT

"1 799 U.S. dollars = 1 146 Euros"

–OMG LOL! via Google

also: you can change your teamcolour now and everything is nicer.

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 09:32:25 GMT

also: you can change your teamcolour now and everything is nicer.

due to a code error we now again have colour circles:

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 09:27:34 GMT

due to a code error we now again have colour circles:

also: preparations for flickr are done.
also: email notifications should work shortly
also: different city guy still missing %/

o_O

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 20:31:33 GMT

o_O

el kris

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 12:37:08 GMT

el kris

[Reposted from web via Sven]

typocode: http://ilovetypography.com/img/99-words.gif

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 12:33:41 GMT

typocode:

http://ilovetypography.com/img/99-words.gif

[Reposted from dkoder via Sven]

uto

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 12:20:51 GMT

+= tupalo integration.

claim any spot without an address. works if it's on tupalo. yay hooray!

also: bugfixes and stuff.

Wenn Programmierer Flugzeuge bauen (würden)

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 12:19:57 GMT

Wenn Programmierer Flugzeuge bauen (würden)

[Reposted from web via apoc]

war?

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 17:00:06 GMT

war?

this reminds me get a non-competitive element in the game.

also: yay for using the stickers to post notes/comments!

custom stickers? yeah!

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 16:58:45 GMT

custom stickers? yeah!

Flickr: The urban takeover Pool

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 16:58:27 GMT

w00t!

http://www.flickr.com/groups/urbantakeover/pool/