Well I’ve spent 10 mins and created a Calendar feed of the main public and bank holidays for 2012. Hopefully you can add this to your computers and phones and not have to check that source PDF again.

• XML Feed
• iCal file
• HTML embedded thingy

You are welcome.

I wanted to get some files out of the tab. I tried ES File Explorer with a bit if luck where single files copied over fine.

With ES there is no progress bar so you don’t know what is really happening until it fails ten minutes down the line.

After trying Astro file manager with the samba add-on still I couldn’t connect to my Mac.

At last I tried AndSMB where there is a progress bar and it tells you if the copy failed. You have enter the samba server manually but it seems to work.

Samba Filesharing seems to be another popular one but you need to have rooted device for that to work.

Xcode 4.x something which doesn’t have GCC anymore.

I didn’t have RVM on this computer so I tried rbenv instead after @dhh mentioned it a few months ago.

There was nothing particularly wrong with WordPress. It just got boring. Too complex to hack around. Too many plugins. Too many updates and comment spam.

This is a cycle people start with simple things make them complex and go back to basics.

Transporting compost all the way from Ritigala is not the most environmentally thing to do.

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sudo add-apt-repository ppa:olivier-berten/misc
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install mysql-workbench-gpl

Source

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<?php echo $content
?>

What I noticed was that the ones with the semi-colons in place didn’t break to a new line.

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<?php echo $content;?>

Now the auto-formatter (Keyboard shortcut to Command + Shift + F on the Mac) keeps things in the same line.

Commits and commit messages are pretty important. I’ve had single user repos for years and I still put decent messages and commit sensibly in case I need to go back and figure out something.

Here are a few tips that hopefully will help to do better commits.

• A commit shouldn’t be a number of unrelated things.
• Each commit should be a single step that you are doing to achieve something.
• No blank commit messages, blank means you did nothing. :)
• In a traditional VCS like CVS or Subversion always do an update and merge any changes before you commit.
• In a DVCS like Git or Mercurial commit what you did, then pull, update, merge, commit, and push. (This might change depending on the tool you use.)

If you keep your commits per step you will find you can pick and move, release, make patches or do pull requests easier.

Here is my work profile.

Also I found a way map any CodeIgniter function to Twig like so.

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<?php
$this->load->library('twig'); // load the Twig library
$this->load->helper('url'); // load the CodeIgniter URL helper
// map the base_url() function as a Twig function 
$this->twig->add_function('base_url');

Then in your Twig view call the base_url() function like this

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Head over to Github for more details.

In case you have no idea what I’m talking about. CodeIgniter is an excellent PHP framework and Twig is a Django style templating engine with inheritance for PHP.

I did a small intro to HTML5 at the last Refresh Colombo meet-up last week. Here is the main presentation I used from html5rocks.com.

Here is a better list of resources as well. I specially like Dive Into HTML5 by Mark Pilgrim.

I met @geekaholic and @SeeJay of Sinhalen FOSS at Refresh Colombo but had to head back soon after.

Thanks @nazly for the invite will try to hang around longer next time. :)

Update: Mark Pilgrim’s websites went away. I’ve changed the above link to a working mirror. Also you can get a PDF of the book from this site.

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