Escaping single quotes in ruby is the same mess as in java: puts ":'(".gsub(’\”, ‘\\\\\”)puts ":'(".gsub(‘\”, ‘\\\\\”) I needed this to make the smilies after my comment box (here) clickable. Shortly after that, i found escape_javascript, maybe it still comes in handy.
On a unix box just type in the directory you want to search for changed files: find . -mtime -1 -printfind . -mtime -1 -print
Ruby On Rails has a neat little feature called “respond_to”: class WeblogController < ActionController::Base def index @posts = Post.find :all respond_to do |format| format.html format.xml { render :xml => @posts.to_xml } format.rss { render :action => "feed.rxml" } end end endclass WeblogController < ActionController::Base def index @posts = Post.find :all respond_to do |format| format.html format.xml […]
I was in need of tokenizing some comma delimited data within an Oracle Database. A pity, there’s no split for a varchar2 like java.lang.String.split. I could have used Java in the database, but that would be lame, too.j I found this little function which uses pipelined results, that is, it returns his results while being […]
I always thought that the Java Thread API is something… strange. If you work in a frontend application, things like running long-running tasks in the back without having the GUI ugly frozen and not responding should be somewhat simpler. SwingWorker has been around for quite a time but made it just recently into the core […]