Sugru is this fantastic super modeling clay made by Jane from Ireland. It allows you to hack the world and fix stuff. First its soft, sticks on nearly and material allowing you to put it in any shape, later it hardens and keeps its form. Perfect for me!

Check my hack, where I used Sugru replacing the missing glass pieces and preventing the loose ones from falling of. My display is protected again, and the phone is working – yay!

Visit the Sugru Website and get some for yourself: http://sugru.com

In my early webdeveloper days I created a small javascript which named ‘SizeIt!’. It purpose was to resize all website elements according to the size of users viewpoint. So regardless which screen resolution the user has, the website propotions would always be the same. Honestly, it worked only in very special cases and was slooooow (these days)

But the idea was great and it even gave me second place in a competition – ‘Die besten JavaScripts’ of Internet-World in August 2000. Read the result here (german only, sorry).

Not sure where I do have source code, will continue searching archive and post it here someday – stay tuned …

Click here to view the embedded video.

http://events.ccc.de/camp/2011/

Click here to view the embedded video.

Here are the slides:

http://www.slideshare.net/rngtng/rainbowduino

Thanks to David for recording!

It totally looks like the two long line go up, but if you apply a ruler, you see, it’s indeed straight:

A optical Illusion – weird, right?

First I checked Stackoverflow – Tian had similar problem over there: Nokogiri: Parsing Irregular “<”

As a quick fix I came up with this method using a reqular expression to identify unclosed tags:

def fix_irregular_html(html)
  regexp = /<([^<>]*)(<|$)/

  #we need to do this multiple time as regex are overlapping
  while (fixed_html = html.gsub(regexp, "&lt;\\1\\2")) && fixed_html != html
    html = fixed_html
  end

  fixed_html
end

See full code including test here: https://gist.github.com/796571

It works out well for me, I appreciate any feedback and improvements

See full code and test here:

https://gist.github.com/796571

Here’s a HowTo for a nice visual indication to see quickly if your Mac OS X Terminal is running which ssh connection.

The trick is to change your Terminal Theme before you ssh and change it back afterwards.

1. Create Theme:
got to Terminal -> Preferences -> Settings create a new theme (or copy existing one) and adjust to your needs, e.g. a light red background etc. Give it a nice name e.g. “SSH-Theme”

2. Add this function to your .bashrc

function tabc() {
NAME=$1; if [ -z "$NAME" ]; then NAME="Default"; fi
osascript -e "tell application \"Terminal\" to set current settings of front window to settings set \"$NAME\""
}

“Default” is my default Terminal theme, name this whatever u have

Usage:
tabc SSH-Theme #switch to theme with name
tabc #switch to default theme

3. Create alias to ssh to server:

alias sshmyserver="tabc SSH-Theme; ssh yourserver.com; tabc"

That’s it – your are done! Now, if you type sshmyserver, your Terminal color will change, ssh will start, and when you end ssh, everything will be back again..

Btw. for Terminal on Mac OS X, I very recommend Visor – a quake like console

UPDATE:
Please express your Love and vote for cubeXControl here – Thanks!

UPDATE2:
Apparently the current Version doesn’t work with Windows. I’m very sorry for that, but at the moment I don’t have any Win machine to test this. So please feel free to try yourself and fix it! Thx!

I’m proud to present a first version which was on my this years TODO list for so long, but due to all the changes therefore very less time never got startet. But thanks to the Seeedstudio Rainbowduino Carnival 2010 I got a big motivation boost and found some time to get my fingers dirty again. So check this out, my this years contribution for the carnival:

cubeXcontrol – a Rainbow Cube Editor

Well, you know the mtXcontrol, the Rainbowduino Editor and the awesome Seeedstudio Rainbow Cube I mentioned here ? Now it’s time  to bring them together:

Click here to view the embedded video.

cubeXcontrol is an editor to control and create patterns for the 4x4x4 RGB Rainbow Cube powered by a rainbowduino. It comes with an extra window showing a 3D model of the Cube, allowing to rotate in all directions and to zoom. Click on boxes to set the LED color easily.

The editor is of course heavily based on the latest mtXcontrol version, with the latest rainbowduino firmware. Both are unfortunately still in beta stage, but come with great new features like auto port detection.

Get the sources here:

https://github.com/rngtng/mtXcontrol/tree/cubeXcontrol

And the Rainbowduino driver:

https://github.com/rngtng/rainbowduino/tree/master_slave

Happy cub’ing!

This time I was really annoyed with setting up keyboard shortcuts, so I came up with this little AppleScript which does the work:

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-- 
--   Script to automate creation of Keyborad shortcuts
-- 
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GUIScripting_status()

tell application "System Preferences"
	activate
	reveal anchor "shortcutsTab" of pane id "com.apple.preference.keyboard"
end tell

set {leftArrow, rightArrow} to {ASCII character 28, ASCII character 29}
set {upArrow, downArrow} to {ASCII character 30, ASCII character 31}

-------------------------------- DEFINE YOUR SHORTCUTS HERE --------------------------------

createShortcut("Safari", "Select Next Tab", {control down, rightArrow})
createShortcut("Safari", "Select Previous Tab", {control down, leftArrow})

createShortcut("Utilities/Terminal", "Select Next Tab", {control down, rightArrow})
createShortcut("Utilities/Terminal", "Select Previous Tab", {control down, leftArrow})

createShortcut("TextMate", "Next File Tab", {control down, rightArrow})
createShortcut("TextMate", "Previous File Tab", {control down, leftArrow})
createShortcut("TextMate", "Search Project With AckMate...", {command down, "F"})

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tell application "System Preferences" to quit

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on createShortcut(app_path, menu_text, keystokes)
	tell application "System Events"
		tell process "System Preferences"
			tell window "Keyboard"
				click button 3 of tab group 1
				tell sheet 1
					click pop up button 1
					click last menu item of menu 1 of pop up button 1
					keystroke "/Applications/" & app_path & ".app"
					keystroke return
					keystroke return
					delay 1

					keystroke menu_text
					keystroke tab

					keystroke last item of keystokes using rest of reverse of keystokes
					delay 1

					click button "Add"
				end tell
			end tell
		end tell
	end tell
end createShortcut

#source: http://www.macosxautomation.com/applescript/uiscripting/index.html
on GUIScripting_status()
	-- check to see if assistive devices is enabled
	tell application "System Events"
		set UI_enabled to UI elements enabled
	end tell
	if UI_enabled is false then
		set result to display dialog "This script utilizes the built-in Graphic User Interface Scripting architecture of Mac OS x which is currently disabled." & return & return & "Please click 'OK' to provide your password to activate GUI Scripting" with icon 1 buttons {"OK", "Enable without password"} default button 1
		if button returned of result = "Enable without password" then
			tell application "System Preferences"
				activate
				set current pane to pane id "com.apple.preference.universalaccess"
				display dialog "Activate GUI Scripting by selecting the checkbox \"Enable access for assistive devices\" in the Universal Access preference pane." with icon 1 buttons {"OK"} default button 1
				delay 3
			end tell
		else
			enabledGUIScripting(true)
		end if
	end if
end GUIScripting_status

#source: http://www.peachpit.com/blogs/blog.aspx?uk=Using-AppleScript-to-enable-GUI-Scripting-Five-AppleScript-Tips-in-Five-Days
on enabledGUIScripting(switch)
	tell application "System Events"
		activate
		set UI elements enabled to switch
		return UI elements enabled
	end tell
end enabledGUIScripting

The key is ‘GUI scripting’ – a specify way of AppleScript to simulate clicks, keystrokes etc. for *any* (native?) App. You only have to know the ids of the GUI elements which you can get with this very nice tool:
-> http://pfiddlesoft.com/uibrowser

Good source to start your Mac Os X Automation is:
-> http://www.macosxautomation.com

After having enjoyed a wonderful summer with lot of travels and being in more or less ‘offline’ mode, I’m back ‘online’ and I started my new Job at soundcloud.com.

It’s like Fickr but for Music – upload your tracks and share them among the community and fans.

It’s kick ass! Take a look around the office, check this out: http://www.wechsellook.com/post/read/90