http://furtivecode.com Chris Lamothe's weblog. Thu, 14 Feb 2008 03:44:20 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Before replacing my  old Motorola RAZR with an iPhone I needed to backup up all of my photos.  Unfortunately Motorola's naming convention for images is terrible:  DD_MM_YY-hhmm.jpg, if you try sorting that you get all the photos taken on the first of any month grouped together, followed by all those ... http://furtivecode.com/2008/02/13/renaming-files-with-date-standards/ If you've waited until now before upgrading to Ruby on Rails 2.0 now you may be in for a little surprise.  As of version 2.02 the default database in Rails is SQLite, arguably because there is no need to for grants or the creation of tables, meaning a simpler setup ... http://furtivecode.com/2007/12/28/rails-sqlite-replaces-mysql-as-default-database/ This Lotus Notes script strips email attchements using an Agent instead of Rules. Lets say you want to forward mail from your Lotus Notes account but want to strip attachments, you'll definitely want to try the following script. It's perfect for sending your mail to your sexy new iPhone without ... http://furtivecode.com/2007/12/18/how-to-filter-email-attachments-in-lotus-notes/     Leopard (OS X 10.5) has its fair share of goodies, including a new and improved terminal client with *gasp* tabbed windows. I thought this feature would be great news, since as I wouldn't need to install the venerable iTerm in much of the same way that Spaces has supplanted ... http://furtivecode.com/2007/11/04/terminated/ So this Tuesday I had the honour of presenting at Montreal on Rails 2, where I demoed the Acts As Authenticated and Role Requirement plugins. I think Marc Andre Cournoyer's review impressed me the most, mainly that "...[it] is an exploit to be able to code a live app in front ... http://furtivecode.com/2007/09/06/montreal-on-rails-2/ If you work in a 9-5 environment, then the biggest mistake you can possibly make on a Friday afternoon is to start major changes in your code. Stop! Step away from the keyboard! This one goes right up there with never sending an email late at night ... http://furtivecode.com/2007/08/31/dont-refactor-on-a-friday-afternoon/ I'm happy to announce that I will be speaking about user authentication at the next Montreal on Rails meetup, scheduled for Tuesday the 4th of September at the McGill MAASS Chemistry building, room 328. The show starts at 18h45 and I think I'll be the first to present, so ... http://furtivecode.com/2007/08/27/come-see-me-on-sept-4th/ The integrators at work had a problem recently with a shell script that generates SQL deployment and rollback scripts on the fly based on SQL patches submitted by developers. The problem was that sometimes the name of an object would include a "(" at the end of it (e.g. ... http://furtivecode.com/2007/08/16/bash-how-to-strip-the-last-character-of-a-word/ Last night's Montreal on Rails meetup (their first ever) was a large step up from the Commodore 64 disk swaps of my youth, but probably a lot more significant as far as self improvement goes. A good 30-35 people showed up and the two presentations given were fantastic. The first ... http://furtivecode.com/2007/08/08/tales-from-the-computer-club/ Here are some of the links that I bookmarked for the month of July. I highly recommend the 101 meals at the bottom of this list. Development a free service oriented architecture diagram. Some simple SQL rules to live by Agile Bookshelf: Ten must read books Keep your data in the tables! Best programmer quotes Easing ... http://furtivecode.com/2007/08/01/link-grab-bag-for-july-2007/