Stu's Rusty Bucket

Saturday, January 29, 2005

Hammock Materials

Got my hammock materials today.. Guess now its a matter of cutting and sewing..

Not looking forward to sewing by hand either

Materials

Closeup of the ripstop nylon weave

Thursday, January 27, 2005

Police Records

Got my uk police record thing today, which was a simple paper saying ‘There is no information on the police computer regarding said individual’.

So now, I guess all I am waiting on is the paperwork to arrive from my mum and from joy, then I can send it all down.

Wednesday, January 26, 2005

Hammocks

Gonna make my own hammock with bug netting, so ordered the materials tonight.

Uncoated Ripstop Nylon (gold, the only colour I could get...) 5 meters
25mm Polypro webbing, Forest Green, 3 meters
Cotton tape, 4m (for the bug netting and hooks)
Snap Hook + Drings x2 (for bug netting)
Midge Netting, 3 meters.

Now I just have to brush up on my sewing hahah

Will do some photos and my plans later when it arrives.

Monday, January 24, 2005

Waking up to this

If you could wake up to this, why wouldnt you want to be on the trail??

Smokey National Park 7am;

Smokey National Park 7:15am

Smokey National Park 7:30am

Smokey National Park 7:45am

Saturday, January 22, 2005

Snow

whooo its started snowing but who knows how long this will last for… Its pretty anyway. Bring on the white out!

** edit : So it only lasted two minutes… that was my excitement for the day **

Police Records

I sent my passports off the other day to get a police certificate to say I have no record, and it said, “will take up to 6 weeks” bah.. so this morning my registered mail arrived with my passports and a Police Letter, I thought “Whoa! that was quick!” and the letter states “Thank you for the paperwork, you can expect a reply sometime before the 2nd of March”..

Greeeaat. 2nd of March…

ohwell

Friday, January 21, 2005

Its not 43 things yet

http://www.43things.com/people/view/BloodyCactus

Get going with Rails

I dont usually do trackbacks but when its good, its worth it. I was particuarly impressed that Curt went and showed how to add has_many and belongs_to attributes on the categories.

A nice, simple and concise introduction to using rails! Now if I could just see a Rails tutorial using Apache2 instead of WEBrick I would be even more impressed…

Rolling with Ruby on Rails by Curt Hibbs—The Ruby community is abuzz about Rails, a web application framework that makes database-backed apps dead simple. What’s the fuss? Is it worth the hype? Curt Hibbs shows off Rails, building a simple application that even non-Rubyists can follow.

Ruby : Usless Code Snippets

I Love useless ruby code snippets… I moved my mame roms (.zip files) from windows to my Linux system and gxmame didnt like them in .zip files. doh!!
edit :: apparently I had permissions wrong and zips work fine.. ohwell!! hahahah

Ruby to the rescue.

Works like a charm. Go Ruby!

Thursday, January 20, 2005

Quron

Got some work tomorow.. Not liking the hours, from 1pm to 9pm at night, working in the Quorn factory… pronouced same as ‘Corn’, the yellow stuff.

I like Quorn… so maybe after working there I wont like it? hmm..

Quorn make vegetarian stuff out of tvp + soy. eg: Vegetarian Mince. Quorn Chicken Pieces, etc. etc. Sausages, Burgers. Its actually nice and tasty…

Hopefully it wont change my mind…

Moderation

All comments are now moderated, this stops all the spam.. and makes my life lots easier.

Wednesday, January 19, 2005

Ruby : Firebird / Interbase

Backup now works! whoop. easier than I had anticipated.. very cool as well as simple.

also added

• getServerVersion
• getServiceImplementation
• getUserDBPath
• getEnvMessage
• getEnvLock
• getEnv

Now I just need to work on

• databaseRestore
• databaseStats
• serverGetLog
• serverAddUser
• serverDeleteUser
• serverListUsers

Probably will do the List Users, then Add + Delete Users functions

Once thats up, its time to document that then begin work on other parts of the system.

Monday, January 17, 2005

K1 Visa Application Forms

ARSE!

The paperwork for the fiancee visa showed up this morning and Ive briefly been going over it, a lot is the same/similar to what I did for my holiday visa but there are things like I have to somehow manage to get Police certificates from every country Ive lived in for more than 12 months since the age of 16… Birth certificates etc.

Its all well and good when you are not in those countries any more to try and get this official paperwork!!! (and at a cost of 20aud a birth certificate alone!)…

And I have to get a Police certificate from here in the UK, I dont even know where the local Police station is!

Right now I have a

• DS-230 Part 1 “Application for Immigrant Visa and Alien Registration - Biographic Data”
• DS-156 “Nonimmigrant Visa Application”
• DS-156K “Nonimmigrant Fiancee Visa Appliation”
• DS-157 “Supplimental Nonimmigrant Visa Application”

Ruby : Firebird / Interbase

Had a thought.. rather than implement the two service manager routines (query/start) that each take a variable number of parameters and support a dozen or so functions each, I will just implement some, each as a specific call.

This way I can implement them as I go, and have something like

rather than

et al.

Sunday, January 16, 2005

Ruby : Firebird / Interbase

Over the last two days I have been playing with the Firebird database with Ruby and writing an extension for it.

Its a nice step up from the uname extension. This time I have a lot more to deal with, like wrapping data into the class, exposing sub classes underneath a Module namespace.

So far things are going well. I am working on the ServiceManager bits right now and have the basic attach/detach working fine.

I need to work on the ServiceManager#start and ServiceManager#query functions..

Then.. I can begin the arduous task of working on the Connection class and then the Recordset class…