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Tour of Britain
August 16th, 2007Deathly silence
July 25th, 2007Apologies for the lack of posts at the moment but any spare time is currently being consumed by Harry Potter! It wasn’t entirely coincidental that we found ourselves in our local ASDA on Sunday afternoon, picking up one of the last of their 5000 £5 copies of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Christine tends to be a faster reader so I agreed she could go first. I hadn’t, however, bargained on her reading it out aloud to Emma as I went in and out of the room. So, now we’re all reading it together which, as you might imagine, is a little slower going…
Rails Overview: View
July 20th, 2007Having covered the Model and Controller aspects of Rails in previous posts, that really means it has to be View next. I’ve already touched on the basics: the controller method renders a template, either explicitly or simply by exiting and allowing the default template for the action to rendered, and the attributes of the controller class setup by the action method are then available to the template.
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Janesmoor Pond RR10
July 20th, 2007Wednesday saw what was probably my last RR10 of the year (we’re likely to be away for Stoke Park Woods and IBM hosts the last race of the year). It was a new course for me, out at Janesmoor Pond in the New Forest. I was warned that it was undulating and wasn’t disappointed (my watch measured over 300m of ascent in 6.8km which is positively mountainous for round here!). The course also now leaves the gravel tracks to cut through the middle of the first loop meaning there was also be some mud to be had.
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Connecting Enterprise Applications to WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus
July 20th, 2007Andrew is plugging the draft of his Redbook Connecting Enterprise Applications to WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus over on SOA Tips ‘n’ Tricks and rightly so as it’s well worth a look. If you thought that WebSphere ESB was just about SOAP/HTTP then this book should set you straight. It covers details of integration via WebSphere MQ, JDBC and HTTP and connecting to CICS. I’ve been working on the labs for the corresponding ITSO Workshop rolling out later this year.
Out to play
July 17th, 2007Wye Valley Butterfly Zoo
July 17th, 2007
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Gallery rewrites are back
July 16th, 2007Many thanks to Ilya Azarov who answered my plea for assistance and supplied his nginx rewrite rules for Gallery2. I won’t claim to understand why his work and mine didn’t (although previously I wasn’t aware that you could nest location directives so that was something I hadn’t tried). They still can’t cope with spaces in file names but I can live with that.
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