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Domain Specific Languages in Ruby

Tagged with: — ondrej at 10:09 pm on Sunday, March 22, 2009

It is probably every developer’s dream to create a programming language. It is a complex and difficult task, so it will remain just an unfulfilled dream for many.
But there is a chance to create something simpler – a domain specific language (DSL). A language, that covers a specific (and limited) domain.
Ruby helps here a lot – to create a DSL is really simple and easy.
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Undelete iPod Mini Files

Tagged with: — ondrej at 8:26 am on Tuesday, March 17, 2009

A friend of mine asked me to help him to undelete music files from his iPod mini.
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My Favourite Firefox and Thunderbird Add-ons

Tagged with: — ondrej at 1:53 am on Monday, March 9, 2009

I wrote down my favourite Firefox and Thunderbird add-ons (or plug-ins). Some friends of mine asked me several times.. here is it..
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Accessing Mac OS X harddrive from Ubuntu in VirtualBox via shared folders

Tagged with: — ondrej at 12:25 am on Sunday, March 8, 2009

I installed Ubuntu in a VirtualBox machine on OS X (pretty easy and straightforward), but to access a Mac harddrive from Ubuntu was slightly more complicated.
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