Posts under ‘bugfix’

Perl’s Class::DBI is something I’ve had a bit of a love-hate relationship with. It’s definitely been useful. And, like with Ruby’s ActiveRecord, it can sometimes rocket-propel you 10x with a development task.
However, it’s got a lot of weird gotchas built in. One of them seems to be the [...]

I was trying to install Net::Google 1.0 using CPANPLUS on my Mac OS X 10.5 machine, and kept getting a pesky error:
Service description ‘file:’ can’t be loaded: 404 File `’ does not exist

One thing I had to do to fix it was install an apparent prerequisite, SOAP::WSDL. It [...]

No cutesy commentary for once:
The equivalent on Mac OS X of alt-enter for entering a hard line break within a cell in Excel is command-control-enter (open apple-control-enter).

If you are having trouble with your “hello world” wxPerl script on Mac OS X, check your shebang (#!) line and make sure you’re running /usr/bin/wxPerl (or which ever wxPerl you have) rather than merely /usr/bin/perl — the normal perl will display the main window but won’t allow interaction between the window and [...]

I recently updated my dev machine (Mac OS X) to the latest Rails gems, and was getting deprecation warnings for using form_tag in its old, non-block, pre-Rails 1.2 way.
Then, in moving between my development and acceptance-testing boxes (you do have a mirror of your production environment running as an acceptance testing [...]

The comprehensible but often superfluous model method in Rails is used in an ActionController to tell it about an ActiveRecord model that it ought to have loaded in order to have the AR classes available to it. It’s kind of got the feeling of a require or a use in Perl. [...]

One thing about buying a new(ish) MacBook Pro loaded with Tiger: they really aren’t cutting a lot of corners. This includes in the area of resource usage (see e.g. memory usage, as you buy another gig of RAM). This, of course, is done in the name of an “Insanely Great” user [...]

The opinionated programmers behind Rails have generally done a good job. (There are couple of FUBARs in their bag of tricks, such as the boneheaded choice to use pluralized table names (in some places) and use automagical pluralization code to try and mediate between the singular and plural.)
There’s another item I’d [...]

(Programmers: skip down to the Meat section below.)
If you are so bored as to actually have read all the articles on this blog, you may have noticed that the “Id: lucas blah blah blah” string that shows up at the bottom of the articles. This is an interpolated keyword, put [...]

… and for Jeremy Smith. Thanks to Jeremy’s hack on top of Ingy’s quickie wiki, we can now get proper behavior inside of table cells.
In a nutshell, Kwiki didn’t handle things like italics inside of a table. This should fix it. Previous posts that used the stock Kwiki should be [...]