My new notebook arrived three days ago: a MacBook Pro. As this is my first Apple machine ever, I am experincing some beginner’s transitional surprises.
The first surprise was somewhat disappointing. I was unable to access my wirless network due to an umlaut in the network’s ID string. Because I had a lot of software to [...]

Avoid using metaprogramming (seriously!) at Rails on the Run.
As the pragmatic programmers would have put it: write code to be clear, not clever. Especially when the clearer variant even outperforms the clever one.

After quite some time I write one of these things that were supposed to be the overall topic of this blog: a snippet. This time, it’s a bookmarklet. My first bookmarklet at all. So without further ado, here’s what it takes to immediately jump from an O’Reilly catalog page to the corresponding search page at [...]