Clementine – Amarok for Windows and Mac OS

My favorite mp3 player is Amarok for KDE driven systems. It comes with intelligent playlists offering an almost always appropriate mix from your music collection. The neat user interface is well-arranged and informative. It’s only a click away to retrieve the album covers of all your albums from the internet, read the song lyrics while [...]

Duokan – the alternative Kindle OS – in english

Update 2011/06/29: They released a lite version for kindle 3. I’ll write about it this weekend. Here’s the link to the new lite version at duokan.com: http://www.duokan.com/forum/thread-16541-1-1.html Update 2011/06/02: Updated links to new Duokan version 0.5.13.8942 (2011/05/20) with english language preconfigured and to the original chinese version. Please leave a comment including your kindle model [...]

Secure model mass assignment for administration panels

For the most applications I’m developing I want the users to be able to edit their user data or profile using model mass assignment in Rails.  Moreover I want additionally an easy administration panel for super users who can access all the attributes of the users (and nested attributes) via mass assignment. Now what’s an easy [...]

“undefined method `use_transactional_fixtures=’” after upgrading to Rails 2.3.2

After upgrading to Rails 2.3.2 I’ve tried to run the testcases. The following error occured: test/test_helper.rb:22: undefined method `use_transactional_fixtures=’ for Test::Unit::TestCase:Class (NoMethodError) Solution: Test::Unit::TestCase changed to ActiveSupport::TestCase, so simply edit your test/test_helper and change the name of the class. Keywords: functional test problems

Display problems w/ ATI Xpress 1250 under Jaunty (Ubuntu 9.04)

The flickering bug described in the following was fixed. If you don’t want to wait until it has been released officially, get the deb packages at launchpad: https://launchpad.net/~tormodvolden/+archive/ppa After installing you should be able to use the driver with the default EXA acceleration method again. If you’ve changed anything at the xorg.conf to avoid the [...]