Category Archives: Experiments

Posts about programming or software engineering experiments I undertake.

§ My Adventures with Entity Framework and Oracle

I struggle to understand the Entity Framework, and struggle even more to force it to make sense with Oracle.

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§ Apple Excursion - Complete Newbie Development Musings

The other day I was mildly bothered that Mac OS X doesn’t implement some built-in way of moving and resizing windows like most Linux WMs do - by allowing shortcut keys and mouse presses in combination to move and resize from and point on the window, instead of the title bar and resize handles. My [...]

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§ Errors I Got In Merb Within 10 Minutes Of Starting To Use It

$ rake (in /home/…/Documents/Projects/Merb/Blog) Connecting to database… Fri, 04 Jan 2008 05:43:52 GMT: loading gem ‘merb_datamapper’ from config/dependencies.rb:13 … rake aborted! Don’t know how to build task ‘default’

And…

$ rake dm:db:automigrate (in /home/…/Documents/Projects/Merb/Blog) Connecting to database… Fri, 04 Jan 2008 05:44:33 GMT: loading gem ‘merb_datamapper’ from config/dependencies.rb:13 … Started merb_init.rb … Loading Application… Compiling routes.. Loaded DEVELOPMENT Environment… rake aborted! Your query failed. Incorrect table name ‘data_mapper/bases’ CREATE TABLE `data_mapper/bases` (`id` int(11) [...]

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§ Switching To Opera: Initial Thoughts

I should have my tab bar on the side for all my browsers, it makes so much more sense. I like having my mail client in the browser, but it’s easy to forget it’s there. Mail looks very powerful, now I just have to wait for it [...]

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