What on earth is going on with this kids parents?
It’s wrong on so many levels. Prince Harry should be taking notes.
I would have thought the threat level in the states and the resulting trigger-happiness would be a lot higher than over here. Skin colour aside, if anyone tried that over here they should be worried about their personal safety. They would be in as much danger from the knee-jerk retarded populace as the police!
(from Bring It On)
Good luck dude!
Went to see these guys last night – possibly best gig I’ve ever been to! I had no idea what to expect with the venue – it was perfect – really intimate, but not too crowded, and the accoustics in there were spot on.
Their live performance puts the likes of Eminem and 50cent to shame. They have real raw talent and they are truely what hiphop is and should be all about. Their set spanned all their releases, although they only hit on Concrete Schoolyard for a couple of verses, I think it was sufficient to get the crowd going nuts (you could tell there was a vast contingent of people who were there for that track, put it that way!).
They came on with ‘Work It Out’ as their encore, followed by a 10 min freestyle set which, if it was really off the cuff, was truely impressive. Suprisingly they stayed on the stage area for at least 45 mins after the show to sign stuff for the crowd – they were still there when I left anyways.
I’m still buzzing about it – I can’t wait to see them again! I wish I had taken a proper camera with me. If I knew we were going to be so up close and personal I could have walked away with some brilliant shots. Ah well – my PEBL shots will have to do, they’re not too bad :)
I know I still haven’t finished this ‘series’ of posts, but there’s been a bloody good reason, and I’m really close to posting it, I promise!
After finding out about Mark Boulton’s use of the ExpressionEngine software to manage his estimates & invoices, I decided to get in touch and let him know I was working on a similar concept. We met up for coffee and agreed we could work together on something very cool indeed.
Allow me to introduce Flow , the new money manager for freelancers, contractors and small businesses.
We have been working on this app for the past few weeks (hence the posting delay here!) and hope to move forward very quickly with a launch in ooo… 2 months or so. The landing page there is currently only a signup page for launch notification, but a new site outlining the features and benefits of Flow, along with a full production blog and development screenshots, will be going live in about 2-3 weeks.
So in the last post we got to the point where a model class has been modified to be able to access associated classes in a simple way. Now we want to add this functionality to all model classes, that is, those which are a sub class of ActiveRecord::Base.
If you have done any digging into Ruby (get a Pickaxe!), you should know the OO basics like class extensions, inheritance, class methods etc. I’m assuming this much anyway – there are thousands of Ruby OO examples and tutorials out there, you can’t avoid it.
A Mixin is a way of modifying the functionality of a class by ‘applying’ a module to it. This is how I understand the technology anyway:
It is a handy work around for multiple inheritence (which Ruby does not support), as you can mixin any number of modules with a class. Again, there are hundreds of Mixin introductions available on the almighty Google, so I’m not going to explain the path to my understanding of Mixins, I’m just going to show you how I have used them.
So, on with the module writing.
I’ve put this code in /lib/model_extensions.rb – Rails will be able to pick this up automatically for use elsewhere.
If I have understood my Pickaxe correctly, all method calls in Ruby are ultimately messages being sent to the receiver object. Because of this, it is quite simple to extend AR::Base without declaring the class or editing any code other than the functionality you want to add. To apply our Mixin, we have to tell AR:Bass to extend itself with the contents of our module, ModelExtensions. I’ve added the following to the end of /config/environment.rb:
Ok let’s fire up the console and test the experiment.
This shows that the method works for all model classes (declared as an extension to AR::Base) and that it also works for different associations. Job done!
There’s a final part to this solution, involving some new class functionality and a new helper. With any luck I’ll get it online before the weekend.
