Published by Daniel on 26th February 2009
I say YES. I’ve definitely fallen in love with the new Safari 4.0 browser.

Ok, for online development tasks i like Firefox with the nice Firebug and the other Plugins. But for personal use i am using Safari.
Published by Daniel on 17th February 2009
It’s a shame that i didn’t recognize this thing of beauty before. :)

Published by Daniel on 15th February 2009
There are different voices out there:
We hear Yahoo is in talks to buy Tumblr, a blogging startup run by 22-year-old David Karp for “low-to-mid eight figures” — which would translate to a small fortune for the New York entrepreneur. (read more @ valleywag.gawker.com)
[...] David denied his story and Owen said, “He also told me Tumblr’s buying Yahoo, so I don’t know whether we should believe his denial, either.” (read more @ businessinsider.com)
Published by Daniel on 12th February 2009
I’ve gotten this error after i’ve installed ImageMagick (from source) and RMagick (using gem) on my Debian system
libMagickCore.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory – /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rmagick-2.8.0/lib/RMagick2.so
To get rid of this error i executed
ldconfig /usr/local/lib
Published by Daniel on 12th February 2009
Change hostname on Debian
I wanted to change the hostname on my Debian Etch installation. The following worked:
sudo vi /etc/hostname
Change the hostname and save file and then
sudo /etc/init.d/hostname.sh start
Published by Daniel on 10th February 2009
Dumping it into a file (e.g. repository.dump)
svnadmin dump /path/to/repository > repository.dump
Loading the dumped file back into a repository
svnadmin load /path/to/repository < repository.dump
Published by Daniel on 9th February 2009
The year 2038 problem (also known as “Unix Millennium bug”, or “Y2K38″ by analogy to the Y2K problem) may cause some computer software to fail before or in the year 2038. The problem affects all software and systems that store system time as a signed 32-bit integer, and interpret this number as the number of seconds since 00:00:00 January 1, 1970.
(see Wikipedia)
Published by Daniel on 7th February 2009
I’ve just looked for the possibility to include the seconds into Rails’ DateHelper function datetime_select. After i haven’t found it in the Rails API documentation i tried to add an extra parameter include_seconds, set it to true and voilà … it worked like a charm:
<%= datetime_select("post", "written_on", :start_year => 1995, :include_seconds => true) %>
Published by Daniel on 6th February 2009
install Erlang and Mochiweb under Ubuntu
First of all we install necessary components and start with the Erlang installation:
sudo apt-get build-dep erlang
sudo apt-get install java-gcj-compat java-gcj-compat-dev
Then we download the source of Erlang (newest versions are available here: http://erlang.org/download.html). I took the R12B-5 release.
wget http://erlang.org/download/otp_src_R12B-5.tar.gz
Extract
tar xfvz otp_src_R12B-5.tar.gz
Configure (choose your favorite directory for the Erlang installation, here: /usr/local/erlang), build and install it:
cd otp_src_R12B-5
./configure --prefix=/usr/local/erlang
sudo make
sudo make install
Now the Mochiweb part
We checkout the newest Mochiweb source using subversion (if not installed yet. Install subversion using sudo apt-get install subversion).
svn checkout http://mochiweb.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ mochiweb
cd mochiweb
sudo make