Deville Companies and Life

So I found a great way to set up applications in Spaces for Mac OS X Leopard. First, open up the Expose and Spaces Preference pane. Choose the applications you want…

Drag and drop to assign to spaces

And drag them…

Poof. Assigned!

2007 11 27

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Vacation

I’ll be on vacation in Lousiana for the next week. See ya in October.

2007 09 22

Aside
Ruby on Rails
coding

ActionPack: Filter types

Using an external class makes for more easily reused generic filters, such as output compression. External filter classes are implemented by having a static filter method on any class and then passing this class to the filter method. Example:

class OutputCompressionFilter def self.filter(controller) controller.response.body = compress(controller.response.body) end end

class NewspaperController < ActionController::Base after_filter OutputCompressionFilter end
The filter method is passed the controller instance and is hence granted access to all aspects of the controller and can manipulate them as it sees fit.

2007 09 18

Shuttle Rant

I just ran across this great quote that looks at the space shuttle from a future archaeologist’s point of view:

Taken on its own merits, the Shuttle gives the impression of a vehicle designed to be launched repeatedly to near-Earth orbit, tended by five to seven passengers with little concern for their personal safety, and requiring extravagant care and preparation before each flight, with an almost fetishistic emphasis on reuse. Clearly this primitive space plane must have been a sacred artifact, used in religious rituals to deliver sacrifice to a sky god.

2007 02 10