UrbanTakeover soup (without imported items)

"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

"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=

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

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.

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/

go leo!

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 12:24:37 GMT

go leo!

(Image)

Sun, 16 Mar 2008 08:45:39 GMT

w00t!

Sat, 15 Mar 2008 10:48:52 GMT

w00t!

team 72dpi > NERDS ROCK. ^__^ *grin

Sat, 15 Mar 2008 07:47:00 GMT

team 72dpi > NERDS ROCK. ^__^ *grin

o__O -{ wtf reverse development, lol?

Sat, 15 Mar 2008 07:03:57 GMT

posts below are in weird chronological order, because i just scrolled through my friends feed and reposted them.

BAM! sleep is highly overrated.

Sat, 15 Mar 2008 07:01:57 GMT

BAM! sleep is highly overrated.

^_^'

Sat, 15 Mar 2008 07:00:50 GMT

^_^'

[x] claim spots: get your name up in your city
[ ] collect stuff: name/tag/describe everything (thanks astera & wirehead
[ ] top the highscore with your friends

urban takeover + urban katamari + tag the real world for the internet = yay hooray!

step 0: hackmode on. ^__^

Sat, 15 Mar 2008 07:00:16 GMT

step 0: hackmode on. ^__^

haha, the syntax highlighting accidentally made my point extra clear. yay the...

Sat, 15 Mar 2008 07:00:13 GMT

haha, the syntax highlighting accidentally made my point extra clear. yay the web!