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<title><![CDATA[Super Cards]]></title>
<link>http://escherdax.wordpress.com/2009/12/18/index-cards/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 11:21:54 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>escher dax</dc:creator>
<guid>http://escherdax.wordpress.com/2009/12/18/index-cards/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Downloading trial versions of programs and playing with them is a little hobby of mine. Every time I]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p><a href="http://escherdax.wordpress.com/files/2009/12/img_0528.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-361" title="img_0528" src="http://escherdax.wordpress.com/files/2009/12/img_0528.jpg?w=150" alt="" width="150" height="112" /></a>Downloading trial versions of programs and playing with them is a little hobby of mine. Every time I hear about a new one, I have to check it out. In this way I’ve found many useful writing programs: Scrivener, VoodooPad, Macjournal. I’ve also wasted a lot of time when I could have been writing.</p>
<p>I need a program that will taunt me into writing. It would look like the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Assistant">Paperclip Guy</a> in Microsoft Word 97. When I pull out Chapter 1 for the eleventh time, the Paperclip Guy would say, “It looks like you’re trying to revise this again. Would you like me to kick your ass into Chapter 2?” When my characters decide to go on a quest to find the magic-thingy so they can stop the evil wizard from destroying the world, it would say, “It looks like you’ve run out of original ideas. Would you like some advice? a) Give up writing; b) you’re a loser.”</p>
<p>A while ago I wrote about Scrivener, one of the very best writing programs out there. Unfortunately non-mac users can’t take advantage of it. A good enough reason to convert to mac, as I see it, but I will keep my religious views to myself.</p>
<p>Recently I found another program, less well-known than Scrivener, but doing many of the same things &#8212; and it has a Windows version. It’s called SuperNotecards, by Mindola (<a href="http://www.mindola.com">www.mindola.com</a>). At $29 it’s a bit cheaper than Scrivener, and provides some different tools.</p>
<p><!--more-->If you were to ask Dax, “Do you have any index cards?” the reply would <strong><em>never</em></strong> be, “Maybe. I’ll look in my desk.” Dax would say, “What size? What color? Neon or regular? Lines or no lines? Do you want them in a pad or loose? How many packs do you need?”</p>
<p>I am embarrassed to admit how many index cards I have in my desk, in my drawer, in my closet, in my briefcase, in my glovebox&#8230; I love index cards. I use them for everything &#8212; quotations and questions, poems and notes.</p>
<p>When I was in seventh grade, we learned how to write a term paper using 3&#215;5 index cards &#8211; one card for each fact and reference. Our teacher had already forced us to write a hierarchical outline with Roman and Arabic numerals, capital and small letters. But cards were much easier; information could be shuffled around more easily. To please her, I re-wrote my outline several times, and still only got a C. I decided that hierarchical outlines were a way for teachers to weed out those who were not really serious about term papers. No outline, you get a D. My outline was only just ‘adequate,’ not ‘complete and detailed.’ Notecards were the way to go, I decided.</p>
<p>I have found several notecard programs for computer and for phone, but most are for making flashcards, not so useful for writing. SuperNotecards is made for writing. Scrivener uses cards, too, but SNC allows you to categorize and link them in many more ways. There are so many things to think about while writing a novel &#8211; continuity of characters and plot, the introduction of backstory and foreshadowing. SNC excels at this kind of planning. It’s made to organize and link pieces of information in various ways, useful for both fiction and non-fiction.</p>
<p>You could write your entire novel on cards, but that’s not really what it’s designed for. I switch over to Scrivener when I’m ready to write. I may not use SNC for every project, but when the amount of information I’m dealing with becomes overwhelming, this program perfect. Its flexibility allows me to use it in different ways &#8212; to create a broad outline of my story or to detail every aspect of every scene.</p>
<p>If you are more a seat-of-the-pants writer, not an outliner or organizer, SuperNotecards may not appeal to you. But if you’re struggling to get your story together, or find yourself re-reading pages of revision notes, this program may surprise you.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Promicle 4 : The Small Blue Ant and the Little Red Paperclip]]></title>
<link>http://promicles.wordpress.com/2009/12/15/promicle-4-the-small-blue-ant-and-the-little-red-paperclip/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 03:40:48 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>brightgarlick</dc:creator>
<guid>http://promicles.wordpress.com/2009/12/15/promicle-4-the-small-blue-ant-and-the-little-red-paperclip/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[A small blue ant found a little red paperclip. Eagerly, he carried it back to the nest, tripping oft]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p><span style="color:#3366ff;">A small blue ant found a little red paperclip. Eagerly, he carried it back to the nest, tripping often. When the other ants saw him, they ran away screaming. The ant stood with his prize and waited for the queen. When she arrived he presented her with his gift and as just reward she annointed him the first priest to the royal blood line. The small blue ant bowed to the queen and as he did so the queen scolded him <em>You shall bow to no one my friend, priest to the royal blood line. You have given me a gift from the hand of God. </em></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#3366ff;">Until then, no one had ever noticed the small blue ant.</span></p>
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<title><![CDATA[If Alien do exist, where are they?]]></title>
<link>http://curiousbastard.wordpress.com/2009/12/03/if-alien-do-exist-where-are-they/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 04:51:23 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Jack</dc:creator>
<guid>http://curiousbastard.wordpress.com/2009/12/03/if-alien-do-exist-where-are-they/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Image by AaronSimsCompany Probably most of you would ask this question frequently and yet the answer]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://curiousbastard.wordpress.com/files/2009/12/alien.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-173" title="Alien" src="http://curiousbastard.wordpress.com/files/2009/12/alien.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="385" /></a>Image by <a href="http://aaronsimscompany.deviantart.com/" target="_blank"><em><strong>AaronSimsCompany</strong></em></a></p>
<p style="text-align:left;">Probably most of you would ask this question frequently and yet the answer is not so obvious. If they truly exist then where are they? Perhaps that they&#8217;d not visit earth due to the biohazardous atmosphere or is it the conflict between the same race but different skin-tone? For those UFO hunter, Alien do exist in somewhat logic, why? Because if our galaxy is able to support and maintain life on earth then why don&#8217;t the others?</p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><!--more-->Rumor has it that Alien had came before during the ancient Egyptian period where fellow alien would help them with their technology to advance the human race to a new height which is &#8220;The Great Pyramid of Giza&#8221; where Alien help them to build it with ease rather than thousands of slave to carry a chunk of rock (limestone) on their backs which is approximately 10 tons per piece and travel through their nearby quarry or 500 miles away from Aswan.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">There&#8217;re a staggering amount of ridiculous or counterfeit claims which implies that some of us (human) had been abducted by aliens, been through the spaceship of aliens and other&#8217;s baloney claims. The question is: why would they visit us, since we&#8217;re so miraculously primitive? Perhaps they&#8217;d have wanted to observe our abrasive yet droll behavior of daily basis.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">Apart from that, there&#8217;s a place where alien hunters, UFO hunters and so on, would like to pay a visit to Roswell, New Mexico, why? Because that is a particular location for UFO sightings and thousands or even millions of believer of &#8220;Aliens&#8221;. Besides that people&#8217;d had sought for aliens existence ever since in about July 8, 1947. Since the late 1970s the incident has been the subject of intense controversy and the subject of conspiracy theories as to the true nature of the object which crashed. The US military recover the debris from an experimental high-altitude surveillance balloon belonging to a classified program named &#8220;<a title="Project Mogul" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Mogul">Mogul</a>&#8220;; however, many UFO proponents maintain that in fact a crashed alien craft and bodies were recovered, and that the military then engaged in a cover-up. And those cover-up are weather balloons rather than a flying saucer.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">Those are not the only cover-up that is used but another one which is located in German, and why is it? Well, the Nazi German had started a project which is called &#8220;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_paperclip" target="_blank">Operation Paperclip</a>&#8221; whereby they&#8217;d had created a saucer-like plane led by <a title="Herbert A. Wagner" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_A._Wagner">Dr. Herbert A. Wagner</a>, a highly regarded expert in aerodynamics, controls and guidance. Wagner is the man for the job where he&#8217;d created the fuel-efficient, aerodynamical structured UFO for the first time. It was the greatest achievement for the Nazi which is in the command of Adolf Hitler, Hitler wanted this invention to cross the Us border surreptitiously and take them by surprise but then the US army found out the project and halt the making of it, as for those scientists who is working for the Nazi, they will be capture and will be working for the US army.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">~Here&#8217;s a video for the Nazi&#8217;s Scientists Hunt~</p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><span style='text-align:center; display: block;'><object width='425' height='350'><param name='movie' value='http://www.youtube.com/v/bh37r3alzzs&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' /><param name='allowfullscreen' value='true' /><param name='wmode' value='transparent' /><embed src='http://www.youtube.com/v/bh37r3alzzs&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' allowfullscreen='true' width='425' height='350' wmode='transparent'></embed></object></span></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Cómo Adjuntar Archivos a un Modelo en Rails]]></title>
<link>http://viarails.wordpress.com/2009/11/29/como-adjuntar-archivos-a-un-modelo-en-rails/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 13:11:56 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Gabriel Somoza</dc:creator>
<guid>http://viarails.wordpress.com/2009/11/29/como-adjuntar-archivos-a-un-modelo-en-rails/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Paperclip es un plugin que permite adjuntar archivos de todo tipo a un modelo de ActiveRecord. Fue p]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p><a title="Paperclip en GitHub" href="http://github.com/thoughtbot/paperclip" target="_blank">Paperclip</a> es un plugin que permite adjuntar archivos <em>de todo tipo</em> a un modelo de ActiveRecord. Fue pensado para que su implementación sea lo más fácil posible y para que los archivos puedan ser tratados simplemente como un atributo más del modelo. Esto además significa que los cambios en el archivo son efectuados sólo una vez que <em>ActiveRecord::Base#save</em> es ejecutado, y que de la misma forma que con los demás atributos de ActiveRecord, también podemos realizar todo tipo de validaciones sobre el archivo.<!--more--></p>
<p>En este tutorial veremos cómo permitirle a un usuario subir una foto para su perfil. Paperclip se encargará no sólo de guardar la foto en nuestro servidor, sino también de crear automáticamente un <em>thumbnail</em> (vista en miniatura) de esa imagen.</p>
<p>Para el procesar imágenes, Paperclip  utilizar una librería muy popular conocida como <em>ImageMagick</em>. Es esta librería la que nos permitirá generar los <em>thumbnails</em> para nuestros usuarios. Comencemos con los requisitos necesarios:</p>
<h2>1- Instalación de ImageMagick</h2>
<p>Este paso es necesario solamente para aquellos usuarios que <em>no tengan</em> ImageMagick instalado en su equipo, que por lo general son los usuarios de Windows. Las distribuciones de Linux y Mac tienen el paquete instalado por defecto, pero para evitar problemas en el futuro no estaría de más cerciorar que el paquete está presente en el sistema.</p>
<h3>Windows</h3>
<p>La instalación en Windows es muy simple: hay que descargar <a title="Instaladores de ImageMagick para Windows" href="http://www.imagemagick.org/script/binary-releases.php#windows" target="_blank">uno de los instaladores</a> (ante la duda, el <em>Q16-windows-dll</em> funciona en la mayoría de los sistemas) y ejecutarlo. Una vez dentro del instalador, activar la opción &#8220;<em>Update executable search path</em>&#8221; para que la librería pueda ser accedida desde todo el sistema.</p>
<h3>Ubuntu</h3>
<p>Para instalar ImageMagick en Ubuntu o similares (si aún no está instalado), correr el siguiente comando en la consola: <em>sudo apt-get install imagemagick. </em>Si alguien necesita información de cómo hacerlo en otra distribución, dejen un comentario y voy a tratar de responder lo más pronto posible.</p>
<h2>2- Instalación de Paperclip</h2>
<p>Instalamos Paperclip de la misma forma que con cualquier otro plugin:</p>
<pre class="brush: plain;">
script/plugin install git://github.com/thoughtbot/paperclip.git
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<p>Para aquellos que prefieran instalarlo como un <em>gem</em>, agregamos en nuestro <em>environment.rb</em>:</p>
<pre class="brush: ruby;">
config.gem 'paperclip', :source =&#62; 'http://gemcutter.org'
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<p>Y luego corremos en la consola <em>rake gems:install</em>, para instalar Paperclip en el entorno.</p>
<h2>3- Preparar la Base de Datos</h2>
<p>Supongamos que ya tenemos un modelo <em>User</em> en donde reside la información sobre un usuario de nuestro sitio. Lo que queremos hacer es brindarle al usuario la posibilidad de subir una imagen de perfil (foto, avatar, etc) a nuestro sitio. Esta imagen va a ser accedida por medio de un atributo de <em>User</em> que llamaremos <em>picture</em>. Por suerte, Paperclip nos ayuda con un <em>generador</em>, que facilitará mucho nuestra tarea.</p>
<p>En la consola:</p>
<pre class="brush: plain;">
script/generate paperclip user picture
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<p>El generador toma dos parámetros: el primero  indica el modelo al que le queremos adjuntar una imagen, en nuestro caso <em>user.</em> El segundo indica el nombre que le daremos (dentro del modelo) a esta imagen adjunta, y aquí utilizamos <em>picture</em>. Lo que hace este generador es crear un nuevo archivo de migración para agregar cuatro campos nuevos a nuestro modelo <em>User</em>:</p>
<pre class="brush: ruby;">
#db/migrate/20091129014122_add_attachments_picture_to_user.rb
class AddAttachmentsPictureToUser &#60; ActiveRecord::Migration
  def self.up
    add_column :users, :picture_file_name, :string
    add_column :users, :picture_content_type, :string
    add_column :users, :picture_file_size, :integer
    add_column :users, :picture_updated_at, :datetime
  end

  def self.down
    remove_column :users, :picture_file_name
    remove_column :users, :picture_content_type
    remove_column :users, :picture_file_size
    remove_column :users, :picture_updated_at
  end
end
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<p>A esta altura debemos correr <em>rake db:migrate</em> para que los cambios se apliquen a la base de datos.</p>
<h2>4- Adjuntar Paperclip al Modelo</h2>
<p>Una vez hechos los cambios en la base de datos, necesitamos indicarle a nuestro modelo <em>User</em> que queremos un archivo adjunto con nombre <em>picture</em>. Paperclip detectará y utilizará automáticamente los campos que acabamos de agregar a la base de datos. Para hacerlo, agregamos lo siguiente en nuestro modelo:</p>
<pre class="brush: ruby;">
#app/models/user.rb
class User &#60; ActiveRecord::Base
  # Paperclip
  has_attached_file :picture,
    :styles =&#62; {
      :thumb=&#62; &#34;100x100#&#34;,
      :small  =&#62; &#34;150x150&#62;&#34; }
end
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<p>Es importante mencionar que Paperclip aún no sabe que sólo queremos permitir al usuario subir imágenes. Pero más allá de eso, hay un par de parámetros que nos interesan.</p>
<p>El primero es <span style="color:#ff1493;">:picture</span>, que le indica a Paperclip el nombre del archivo adjunto. Es importante que coincida con el nombre que decidimos darle en la base de datos en el paso anterior.</p>
<p>El segundo parámetro es <span style="color:#ff1493;">:styles</span>. Es utilizado sólamente cuando estamos tratando con imágenes, porque no tiene efecto sobre ningún otro tipo de archivos. Este parámetro toma un <em>Hash</em> de claves y sus correspondientes valores. Cada clave define una nueva imagen que se va a generar a partir de la imagen original, y su valor indica qué formato va a tener. Para ver qué formas puede tomar el valor, referirse a la documentación  de ImageMagick. En este caso en particular, se guardarán tres imágenes: la original, una  <em>thumb</em> (de tamaño 100&#215;100 y recortada en los bordes) y otra <em>small</em> (de tamaño máximo 150&#215;150). Para ver cómo modificar el nombre y la ruta donde las imágenes son almacenadas del lado servidor, referirse a la documentación de <a title="Paperclip Interpolations" href="http://wiki.github.com/thoughtbot/paperclip/interpolations" target="_blank">Paperclip Interpolations</a>.</p>
<p>Si queremos evitar que se guarde la imagen original, podemos definir un estilo que se llame <span style="color:#ff1493;"> <img src='http://s.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_surprised.gif' alt=':o' class='wp-smiley' /> riginal</span> y Paperclip guardará la imagen con este nuevo formato, descartando la imagen original. Esto es especialmente útil si queremos evitar guardar imágenes muy pesadas en nuestro servidor.</p>
<p>Por último, los estilos también pueden ser <em>Procs</em> (una de las características interesantes de Ruby). Por ejemplo, si le queremos permitir al usuario definir un ancho y un alto para su imagen (y tenemos dichos valores guardados en los atributos <em>picture_width </em>y<em> picture_height</em> de nuestro modelo, respectivamente):</p>
<pre class="brush: ruby;">
has_attached_file :picture,
  :styles =&#62; {
    :thumb=&#62; &#34;100x100#&#34;,
    :small  =&#62; &#34;150x150&#62;&#34; }
    :custom =&#62; Proc.new {
      &#124;user&#124; # devuelve la instancia actual del usuario
      &#34;#{user.photo_width}x#{user.photo_height}&#62;&#34; }
  }
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<p>Sin embargo, en nuestro ejemplo no necesitamos hacer esto, así que nos quedaremos con los estilos <em>thumb</em> y <em>small</em>.</p>
<h2>5- Definir Validaciones</h2>
<p>Las validaciones de Paperclip son una de sus  características más útiles. El plugin nos provee métodos especiales para algunas de las validaciones más comunes, aunque también podemos agregar manualmente las que nos parezca conveniente a través del método <em>validate </em>de ActiveRecord.</p>
<p>Todos las validaciones toman dos parámetros: (<em>nombre</em>, <em>opciones</em> = {}). El primero especifica a qué archivo adjunto queremos aplicar la validación. Esto es sobre todo útil si el modelo que utilizamos debe tener más de un archivo adjunto. El segundo parámetro es un <em>Hash </em>en donde debemos, en la mayoría de los casos, especificar ciertos valores que le darán sentido a la validación. El Hash de opciones admite algunas opciones que son comunes tanto para este tipo de validación de Paperclip como para el resto de las validaciones de ActiveRecord:</p>
<p style="padding-left:30px;"><span style="color:#ff1493;">:if</span> =&#62; Acepta una condición para la validación (importante recordar: de la misma forma que lo hacen las validaciones de ActiveRecord). Ejecuta la validación si la condición evalúa a verdadero.</p>
<p style="padding-left:30px;"><span style="color:#ff1493;">:unless</span> =&#62; Lo mismo que lo anterior, sólo que la validación <em>no</em> <em>se ejecuta </em>si la condición evalúa a verdadero.</p>
<p style="padding-left:30px;"><span style="color:#ff1493;">:message</span> =&#62; Define el mensaje que se mostrará si el archivo adjunto no pasa la validación. Es útil si necesitamos traducir los mensajes de error al Español (u otro idioma), pero si estamos trabajando en inglés los mensajes suelen ser bastante descriptivos.</p>
<p>Los métodos que nos provee Paperclip para validar los archivos adjuntos son:</p>
<p style="padding-left:30px;"><strong>validates_attachment_presence</strong><em> </em>(nombre, opciones = {})<br />
Funciona igual que el <em>validates_presence_of</em> de ActiveRecord: el modelo no se podrá guardar siempre que no haya un archivo adjunto (al campo especificado por <em>nombre</em>).</p>
<p style="padding-left:30px;"><strong>validates_attachment_size</strong><em> </em>(nombre, opciones = {})<br />
Valida el tamaño del archivo adjunto. Debemos indicar cómo queremos validarlo a través de las <em>opciones.</em> Algunas opciones de ejemplo son (hay que utilizar sólo una de ellas):</p>
<pre class="brush: ruby;">
:less_than =&#62; 5.megabytes # menos de 5 Mb
:greater_than =&#62; 500.kilobytes # más de 5 Mb
:in =&#62; (100..5.megabytes) # de 100 bytes hasta 5 Mb
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<p style="padding-left:30px;"><strong>validates_attachment_content_type </strong>(nombre, opciones = {})<br />
Valida que el archivo adjunto pertenezca a los tipos MIME que especificaremos en las <em>opciones </em>a través de la clave <span style="color:#ff1493;">:content_type</span>. Un ejemplo:</p>
<pre class="brush: ruby;">
:content_type =&#62; ['image/jpeg', 'image/png']
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<p>Con esto en mente, podemos agregarle las validaciones que necesitamos a nuestro modelo <em>User.</em> No utilizaremos <em>validates_attachment_presence</em> porque queremos que el usuario pueda decidir tener una imagen de perfil o no.</p>
<pre class="brush: ruby;">
#app/models/user.rb
class User &#60; ActiveRecord::Base
  # Paperclip
  has_attached_file :picture,
    :styles =&#62; {
      :thumb=&#62; &#34;100x100#&#34;,
      :small  =&#62; &#34;150x150&#62;&#34; }
  # Validaciones de Paperclip
  validates_attachment_size :picture, :less_than =&#62; 2.megabytes
  validates_attachment_content_type :picture, :content_type =&#62; ['image/jpeg', 'image/png']
end
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<h2>6- Las Vistas</h2>
<p>Ya casi terminando, veremos que tanto en las Vistas como en los Controladores podemos tratar al modelo como estamos acostumbrados. Un formulario de ejemplo que permite a un usuario subir su foto de perfil:</p>
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&#60;!-- app/views/user/new.html.erb --&#62;
&#60;% form_for @user, :html =&#62; { :multipart =&#62; true } do &#124;form&#124; %&#62;
  &#60;ol&#62;
    &#60;!-- Otros campos del usuario ... --&#62;
    &#60;li&#62;
      &#60;%= form.label :picture, &#34;Picture&#34; %&#62;
      &#60;%= form.file_field :picture %&#62;
    &#60;li&#62;
      &#60;%= form.submit &#34;Save Picture!&#34; %&#62;
    &#60;/li&#62;
  &#60;/ol&#62;
&#60;% end %&#62;
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<p>Como se puede observar, tratamos a nuestro campo <em>picture</em> de Paperclip como si fuera un <em>file_field</em>. Cuando el usuario seleccione una imagen y envíe el formulario al servidor, Paperclip sabrá qué hacer con la imagen y hará todo el trabajo por nosotros. Lo único que tenemos que hacer que puede ser diferente a lo que hayamos hecho hasta ahora, es decirle a Rails que queremos un formulario <em>multipart</em>. Esto es necesario <em>siempre</em> que queremos subir imágenes o archivos (además de datos comunes) en un formulario HTML.</p>
<p>Para mostrar la imagen en cualquier vista podemos utilizar el método <em>url</em> de nuestro objeto Paperclip. Este método devuelve una ruta a la imagen original (sin parámetros) o a las secundarias (con el parámetro apropiado):</p>
<pre class="brush: ruby;">
&#60;%= image_tag @user.picture.url %&#62;
&#60;%= image_tag @user.picture.url(:thumb) %&#62;
&#60;%= image_tag @user.picture.url(:small) %&#62;
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<h2>7- El Controlador</h2>
<p>El controlador es lo más fácil, porque <em>si lo hicimos correctamente</em>, no tenemos que cambiar absolutamente nada de código para que Paperclip funcione:</p>
<pre class="brush: ruby;">
#app/controllers/users_controller.rb
class UsersController &#60; ApplicationController
  #...

  def new
    @user = User.new
  end

  def create
    @user = User.create(params[:user])
  end

  def update
    @user = current_user
    if @user.update_attributes(params[:user])
      flash[:info] = &#34;Sus datos fueron actualizados con éxito&#34;
      redirect_to user_path(@user)
    else
      render :action =&#62; :edit
    end
  end

  def edit
    @user = current_user
  end

  private

  def current_user
    User.find_by_id(session['user_id'])
  end
end
</pre>
</pre>
<p>Es importante destacar nuevamente que este código es genérico y puede ser utilizado con o sin Paperclip. Tanto en la acción <em>create</em> como en <em>update</em>, nuestros archivos Paperclip son validados y guardados dentro de <em>ActiveRecord::Base#save!</em>. Esto ocurre tanto dentro del método <em>create</em> como del método <em>update_attributes</em>.</p>
<h2>Conclusión</h2>
<p>Vimos un ejemplo sencillo de cómo utilizar Paperclip para adjuntar imágenes a nuestros modelos. Vale la pena repetir que Paperclip puede manejar no sólo imágenes, sino cualquier tipo de archivos. Para usos más avanzados de este plugin, referirse a la <a href="http://dev.thoughtbot.com/paperclip/" target="_blank">documentación</a>.</p>
<p>En el futuro seguramente estaré escribiendo más artículos sobre Paperclip. Si le gustó este artículo, puede subscribirse a mi <a title="RSS Feed" href="http://viarails.wordpress.com/feed/" target="_blank">RSS Feed</a> para ser notificado en cuanto salga uno nuevo. También hay un formulario al costado de esta página en donde puede subscribir su email para que las notificaciones le lleguen a su casilla de correo.</p>
<p>Si hay algún error en este artículo, sugerencias, o simplemente ha sido útil, no dude de comentar!</p>
<h2>Recursos</h2>
<p>Parte de este artículo está basado en los siguientes recursos disponibles en Inglés:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://github.com/thoughtbot/paperclip/" target="_blank">Repositorio Git de Paperclip</a></li>
<li><a href="http://jimneath.org/2008/04/17/paperclip-attaching-files-in-rails/" target="_blank">Paperclip: Attaching Files in Rails</a> (de principios del 2008)</li>
<li><a href="http://thewebfellas.com/blog/2008/11/2/goodbye-attachment_fu-hello-paperclip" target="_blank">Goodbye Attachment Fu, hello Paperclip</a></li>
</ul>
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<title><![CDATA[Signs that I am losing my shit]]></title>
<link>http://dearbloginheaven.wordpress.com/2009/11/19/signs-that-i-am-losing-my-shit/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:16:30 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Afrika</dc:creator>
<guid>http://dearbloginheaven.wordpress.com/2009/11/19/signs-that-i-am-losing-my-shit/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[1. I just applied French grammar rules to a paper being written in English [N.B. it's been over 5 mo]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>1.</p>
<p>I just applied French grammar rules to a paper being written in English [N.B. it's been over 5 months since I've written <em>anything</em> en francais].</p>
<p>example: &#8220;What makes populations vulnerables to famine is&#8230;&#8221;</p>
<p>As you see above, I applied the ever-annoying and hard-to-grasp French (ok fine, romance language) rule of adjective agreement. Too bad English is too good for that shit.</p>
<p><a href="http://dearbloginheaven.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/french-in-action-12.png"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1039" title="French In Action 1" src="http://dearbloginheaven.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/french-in-action-12.png?w=300" alt="If you've ever taken a high school french class, you'll understand why i want to crawl under la table and mourir." width="300" height="228" /></a></p>
<p>2.</p>
<p>I didn&#8217;t notice said total loss of grammatical skillz until the fucking Microsoft Word paperclip pointed it out to me.</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s all say it together: eff (<strong>F</strong>) em (<strong>M</strong>) ell (<strong>L</strong>)</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Cool Experiments (Pt.2)]]></title>
<link>http://thechrisdsblog.wordpress.com/2009/11/11/31-cool-experiments-pt-2/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:34:17 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>chris ds</dc:creator>
<guid>http://thechrisdsblog.wordpress.com/2009/11/11/31-cool-experiments-pt-2/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s cool experiment will teach you how to make your own crystals. You will need: A beaker ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Today&#8217;s cool experiment will teach you how to make your own crystals.</p>
<p>You will need:</p>
<ul>
<li>A beaker</li>
<li>Paperclip</li>
<li>Thread (string)</li>
<li>Spoon</li>
<li>Pencil</li>
<li>Salt or sugar</li>
<li>Food colouring (you can pick the colour)</li>
<li>Hot water(be very careful with this)</li>
</ul>
<p><img class="alignnone" title="crystals in beaker" src="http://www.scitechantiques.com/NOVAJulian/NovaCrystals/15.jpg" alt="" width="347" height="277" /></p>
<ol>
<li>Fill the beaker with hot water and a few drips of food colouring.</li>
<li>Stir in as much sugar or salt (but not both) as you can until no more can dissolve into the solution.</li>
<li>Tie one end of the thread to a pencil or stick and the other end to a paperclip.</li>
<li>Lay the pencil across the top of the beaker with the paperclip hanging into the water.</li>
<li>Leave the beaker in a warm place for a few days and crystals should eventually start to form in whatever colour the food colouring was that you added.</li>
</ol>
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<title><![CDATA[Useful Paperclip Tutorials]]></title>
<link>http://abhilekh.wordpress.com/2009/11/09/useful-paperclip-tutorials/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 12:43:20 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Abhishek Singh</dc:creator>
<guid>http://abhilekh.wordpress.com/2009/11/09/useful-paperclip-tutorials/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Here are some useful Tutorial for paperclip plugin in rails 1. For newly installed Paperclip in ruby]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Here are some useful Tutorial for paperclip plugin in rails</p>
<p><strong>1.</strong> For newly installed Paperclip in ruby 1.9.1, giving &#8220;Internal Error&#8221; and &#8220;invalid byte sequence in US-ASCII&#8221; with rack/utils.rb problem. <a href="http://github.com/rack/rack/commit/44ed4640f077504a49b7f1cabf8d6ad7a13f6441">Follow This</a></p>
<p><strong>2. </strong>Paperclip Sample application. <a href="http://patshaughnessy.net/2009/4/30/paperclip-sample-app">Here</a></p>
<p><strong>3.</strong> Paperclip Sample application : Downloading files through controller. <a href="http://patshaughnessy.net/2009/5/16/paperclip-sample-app-part-2-downloading-files-through-a-controller">Here</a></p>
<p><strong>4.</strong> Paperclip Sample Application : Storing attached file in database BLOB column. <a href="http://patshaughnessy.net/2009/5/29/paperclip-sample-app-part-3-saving-file-attachments-in-a-database-blob-column">Here</a> and <a href="http://patshaughnessy.net/2009/2/19/database-storage-for-paperclip">one More</a></p>
<p><strong>5.</strong> Paperclip upload file using single database table. <a href="http://patshaughnessy.net/paperclip-database-storage">Here</a></p>
<p><strong>6.</strong> Paperclip Sample application download. <a href="http://github.com/patshaughnessy/paperclip-sample-app">Here</a></p>
<p><strong>7.</strong> Good <a href="http://jimneath.org/2008/04/17/paperclip-attaching-files-in-rails/">tutorial on attaching a file using Paperclip</a>.</p>
<p><strong>8.</strong> Uploading multiple images using Paperclip. <a href="http://infrastacks.com/?p=57">Here</a></p>
<p><strong>9.</strong> RoR Paperclip plugin tutorial. <a href="http://burm.net/2008/10/07/the-ruby-on-rails-paperclip-plugin-tutorial-easy-image-attachments/">Here</a></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Problem with Paperclip in Ruby 1.9.1, Rails 2.3.4]]></title>
<link>http://abhilekh.wordpress.com/2009/11/09/problem-with-paperclip-in-ruby-1-9-1-rails-2-3-4/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 12:06:05 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Abhishek Singh</dc:creator>
<guid>http://abhilekh.wordpress.com/2009/11/09/problem-with-paperclip-in-ruby-1-9-1-rails-2-3-4/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I tried Paperclip plugin with Ruby 1.9.1. Everything goes right but when i upload a image file, i go]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>I tried Paperclip plugin with Ruby 1.9.1. Everything goes right but when i upload a image file, i got a &#8220;Something went wrong&#8221; error in browser. In Server console i got something like :</p>
<pre>/!\ FAILSAFE /!\
<pre>Status: 500 Internal Server Error
  invalid byte sequence in US-ASCII
    /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/actionpack-2.3.2/lib/
action_controller/vendor/rack-1.0/rack/utils.rb:320:in `=~'
    /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/actionpack-2.3.2/lib/
action_controller/vendor/rack-1.0/rack/utils.rb:320:in `block in
parse_multipart'.....etc
</pre>
</pre>
<p>After some Googling, i got solution. This works fine for my application. Follow these steps:</p>
<ol>
<li>Change Directory to where ruby 1.9.1 rack gem is installed (in my case it&#8217;s /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/rack-1.0.0/lib/rack)</li>
<li>Open utils.rb file</li>
<li>apply following patch:Line No. 1     <strong><span style="color:#008000;"><span style="color:#333300;">+</span> # coding=binary</span></strong>
<div>Line No.2      +</div>
</li>
</ol>
<div>Following lines are already present :</div>
<div>Line No.3            require &#8217;set&#8217;</div>
<div>Line No.4            require &#8216;tempfile&#8217;</div>
<div>Around Line number 350 replace the following line:</div>
<pre><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;"><span style="color:#000000;">     </span>  boundary_size = boundary.size + EOL.size</span></strong>
</pre>
<p>with this one:</p>
<pre>
<pre><strong><span style="color:#008000;"><span style="color:#000000;">     </span>  boundary_size = Utils.bytesize(boundary) + EOL.size</span></strong>
</pre>
</pre>
<p>nd then follwing lines are already present:</p>
<pre>
<pre>
<pre>           bufsize = 16384
<pre>           content_length -= boundary_size</pre>
</pre>
</pre>
</pre>
<p>4. Save utils.rb file</p>
<p>5. Restart Server and now able to upload and view the image file.</p>
<p>Patch Reference is <a href="http://github.com/rack/rack/commit/44ed4640f077504a49b7f1cabf8d6ad7a13f6441">here</a>.</p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#ff6600;">-Abhishek Singh</span></strong></p>
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<title><![CDATA[¿Conexion Grises-Illuminati-Thule?]]></title>
<link>http://atlantictimes.wordpress.com/2009/10/31/grises-illuminati-thule/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 20:42:07 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>atlantictimes</dc:creator>
<guid>http://atlantictimes.wordpress.com/2009/10/31/grises-illuminati-thule/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[¿que ocurrio con el Dr. Mengele? las características de la abducción alienígena (secuestros) y mutil]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>¿que ocurrio con el Dr. Mengele?<br />
las características de la abducción alienígena (secuestros) y mutilaciones de ganado son similares a los experimentos genéticos nazis. la supuesta raza nordica extraterrestre podrían ser en realidad creaciones del Dr. Mengele o sus discípulos, esto coincide perfectamente con el concepto nazi de Superhombres o supersoldados Nórdicos (ver Lake Travis Walton).<br />
Hay una ciudad en Brasil que se llama Cándido Godoi, que tiene una alta tasa misteriosa de gemelos, la mayoría de ellos de pelo rubio y de ojos azules y se comenta que está conectado a los experimentos de Mengele.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1664" title="image006" src="http://atlantictimes.wordpress.com/files/2009/10/image00610.jpg" alt="image006" width="369" height="231" /></p>
<p>&#8220;Nadie sabe exactamente en qué fecha Mengele llegó a Cándido Godoi, pero los primeros gemelos nacieron en 1963, año en el que se escucharon los primeros los testimonios de su presencia&#8221;.</p>
<p>los residentes de Cándido Godoi ahora afirman que las visitas de Mengele fueron en repetidas ocasiones en la década de 1960, lo que supone en un primer momento como un antiguo del lugar, pero luego ofrecio tratamiento médico a las mujeres de la ciudad.</p>
<p>En un libro publicado el año pasado, un periodista argentino Jorge Camarasa, sugirió que Mengele realizó experimentos con las mujeres que dio lugar a la tasa más alta de los gemelos, muchos de ellos con pelo rubio y ojos de color claro. Los experimentos, dijo, puede haber implicado el uso de nuevos tipos de drogas y preparados, o incluso la inseminación artificial, en relación con las vacas y los seres humanos.</p>
<p>Se ha especulado sobre Mengele y su trabajo en el Area51 dentro del programa Paperclip o Mkultra, Los grises podrían ser una creación de Mengele o estar detras de todo &#8211; el concepto nazi de raza de esclavos es el mismo concepto del Alien Gris &#8211; tal vez de alguna manera impíos procedentes de embriones humanos que se parecen o sometidos a algun tipo de radiacion. La idea de que los extraterrestres secuestran a los seres humanos podría ser la coartada perfecta para el programa nazi. Para que pudieran tener discípulos, ex-Juventudes Hitlerianas. Escenario alternativo mas probable sería que los experimentos nazis genéticos no han continuado con los nazis, sino por los illuminati con las potencias aliadas subordinados a los alienigenas grises, al igual que continuaron los experimentos de cohetes alemánes. (AJ Gevaerd) ¿Qué opina?</p>
<p>Mellizos Mengele</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1665" title="image008" src="http://atlantictimes.wordpress.com/files/2009/10/image0089.jpg" alt="image008" width="226" height="242" /></p>
<p>Película Terror El Resplandor</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1666" title="image010" src="http://atlantictimes.wordpress.com/files/2009/10/image0107.jpg" alt="image010" width="334" height="228" /></p>
<p>Los Grises estaban en última instancia, detrás del Grupo Thule en Alemania durante la guerra, y sin duda estuvieron en última instancia, detrás de la política alemana de internamiento y la terminación de los Judios durante la guerra.</p>
<p>1919 &#8211; Thule</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1667" title="image012" src="http://atlantictimes.wordpress.com/files/2009/10/image0124.jpg" alt="image012" width="150" height="231" /></p>
<p>Los &#8220;grises&#8221; (&#8220;Grandes Jefes&#8221;) son mercenarios de interacción con los seres humanos en &#8220;Sociedades Secretas&#8221; y dentro de los complejos militares / gubernamentales interconectados &#8220;WEB&#8221; manipulando las culturas superficie de la Tierra.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1673" title="rigel" src="http://atlantictimes.wordpress.com/files/2009/10/rigel.gif" alt="rigel" width="200" height="286" /></p>
<p><strong>Val Valerian</strong></p>
<p>Artículo reciente de Brasil Mengele Mellizos de conexión</p>
<p>http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/woman/real_life/article2162918.ece?OTC-RSS&#38;ATTR=Real+Life</p>
<p>Concepción artística de los nórdicos de Travis secuestro Walton, véase el final de la página</p>
<p>http://www.travis-walton.com/human.html</p>
<p><span style='text-align:center; display: block;'><object width='425' height='350'><param name='movie' value='http://www.youtube.com/v/2eKCd0tEpW4&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' /><param name='allowfullscreen' value='true' /><param name='wmode' value='transparent' /><embed src='http://www.youtube.com/v/2eKCd0tEpW4&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' allowfullscreen='true' width='425' height='350' wmode='transparent'></embed></object></span></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Confiamos en las mentiras.Excelente documental.]]></title>
<link>http://explayandose.wordpress.com/2009/10/28/confiamos-en-las-mentiras-excelente-documental/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:22:56 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>explayandose</dc:creator>
<guid>http://explayandose.wordpress.com/2009/10/28/confiamos-en-las-mentiras-excelente-documental/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Excelente documental Excepcional vídeo en 15 partes del Dr Leonard Horowitz denunciando las manipula]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Excelente documental<br />
Excepcional vídeo en 15 partes del Dr Leonard Horowitz denunciando las manipulaciones de las empresas farmacéuticas, los gobiernos, las agencias de salud pública y los medios de comunicación para c&#8230;<br />
Excepcional vídeo en 15 partes del Dr Leonard Horowitz denunciando las manipulaciones de las empresas farmacéuticas, los gobiernos, las agencias de salud pública y los medios de comunicación para crear y difundir enfermedades creadas en laboratorios, bien con fines meramente lucrativos e incluso eugenésicos.</p>
<p>Subtitulado al español, es de indispensable visionado para comprender la realidad de las enfermedades infecciosas. Probablemente el mejor trabajo de investigación y denuncia llevado a cabo por un hombre con 16 libros en su haber, 3 de ellos BEST SELLER en USA.</p>
<p>Dejo los enlaces a los videos (ver las pestañas para ver de los temas que trata el documental):</p>
<p>01 <span style='text-align:center; display: block;'><object width='425' height='350'><param name='movie' value='http://www.youtube.com/v/PQbqXjkA5Y4&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' /><param name='allowfullscreen' value='true' /><param name='wmode' value='transparent' /><embed src='http://www.youtube.com/v/PQbqXjkA5Y4&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' allowfullscreen='true' width='425' height='350' wmode='transparent'></embed></object></span></p>
<p>02 <span style='text-align:center; display: block;'><object width='425' height='350'><param name='movie' value='http://www.youtube.com/v/bW7dfsFnVcY&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' /><param name='allowfullscreen' value='true' /><param name='wmode' value='transparent' /><embed src='http://www.youtube.com/v/bW7dfsFnVcY&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' allowfullscreen='true' width='425' height='350' wmode='transparent'></embed></object></span></p>
<p>03 <span style='text-align:center; display: block;'><object width='425' height='350'><param name='movie' value='http://www.youtube.com/v/6CmNw2rZ138&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' /><param name='allowfullscreen' value='true' /><param name='wmode' value='transparent' /><embed src='http://www.youtube.com/v/6CmNw2rZ138&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' allowfullscreen='true' width='425' height='350' wmode='transparent'></embed></object></span></p>
<p>04 <span style='text-align:center; display: block;'><object width='425' height='350'><param name='movie' value='http://www.youtube.com/v/Y1TEsPPCV40&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' /><param name='allowfullscreen' value='true' /><param name='wmode' value='transparent' /><embed src='http://www.youtube.com/v/Y1TEsPPCV40&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' allowfullscreen='true' width='425' height='350' wmode='transparent'></embed></object></span></p>
<p>05 <span style='text-align:center; display: block;'><object width='425' height='350'><param name='movie' value='http://www.youtube.com/v/Cb3JEmioGTk&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' /><param name='allowfullscreen' value='true' /><param name='wmode' value='transparent' /><embed src='http://www.youtube.com/v/Cb3JEmioGTk&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' allowfullscreen='true' width='425' height='350' wmode='transparent'></embed></object></span></p>
<p>06 <span style='text-align:center; display: block;'><object width='425' height='350'><param name='movie' value='http://www.youtube.com/v/9BRrd5TRGa4&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' /><param name='allowfullscreen' value='true' /><param name='wmode' value='transparent' /><embed src='http://www.youtube.com/v/9BRrd5TRGa4&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' allowfullscreen='true' width='425' height='350' wmode='transparent'></embed></object></span></p>
<p>07 <span style='text-align:center; display: block;'><object width='425' height='350'><param name='movie' value='http://www.youtube.com/v/ezQm5iq_SDI&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' /><param name='allowfullscreen' value='true' /><param name='wmode' value='transparent' /><embed src='http://www.youtube.com/v/ezQm5iq_SDI&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' allowfullscreen='true' width='425' height='350' wmode='transparent'></embed></object></span></p>
<p>08 <span style='text-align:center; display: block;'><object width='425' height='350'><param name='movie' value='http://www.youtube.com/v/q_jh_AjDTvI&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' /><param name='allowfullscreen' value='true' /><param name='wmode' value='transparent' /><embed src='http://www.youtube.com/v/q_jh_AjDTvI&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' allowfullscreen='true' width='425' height='350' wmode='transparent'></embed></object></span></p>
<p>09 <span style='text-align:center; display: block;'><object width='425' height='350'><param name='movie' value='http://www.youtube.com/v/TGQyMUsfEag&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' /><param name='allowfullscreen' value='true' /><param name='wmode' value='transparent' /><embed src='http://www.youtube.com/v/TGQyMUsfEag&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' allowfullscreen='true' width='425' height='350' wmode='transparent'></embed></object></span></p>
<p>10 <span style='text-align:center; display: block;'><object width='425' height='350'><param name='movie' value='http://www.youtube.com/v/GCDYJ_5bBp4&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' /><param name='allowfullscreen' value='true' /><param name='wmode' value='transparent' /><embed src='http://www.youtube.com/v/GCDYJ_5bBp4&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' allowfullscreen='true' width='425' height='350' wmode='transparent'></embed></object></span></p>
<p>11 <span style='text-align:center; display: block;'><object width='425' height='350'><param name='movie' value='http://www.youtube.com/v/pk-_TUG19U0&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' /><param name='allowfullscreen' value='true' /><param name='wmode' value='transparent' /><embed src='http://www.youtube.com/v/pk-_TUG19U0&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' allowfullscreen='true' width='425' height='350' wmode='transparent'></embed></object></span></p>
<p>12 <span style='text-align:center; display: block;'><object width='425' height='350'><param name='movie' value='http://www.youtube.com/v/3pbz3jrC3Ac&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' /><param name='allowfullscreen' value='true' /><param name='wmode' value='transparent' /><embed src='http://www.youtube.com/v/3pbz3jrC3Ac&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' allowfullscreen='true' width='425' height='350' wmode='transparent'></embed></object></span></p>
<p>13 <span style='text-align:center; display: block;'><object width='425' height='350'><param name='movie' value='http://www.youtube.com/v/EKiuIBGSc4Y&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' /><param name='allowfullscreen' value='true' /><param name='wmode' value='transparent' /><embed src='http://www.youtube.com/v/EKiuIBGSc4Y&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' allowfullscreen='true' width='425' height='350' wmode='transparent'></embed></object></span></p>
<p>14 <span style='text-align:center; display: block;'><object width='425' height='350'><param name='movie' value='http://www.youtube.com/v/vZxRjtWt-uw&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' /><param name='allowfullscreen' value='true' /><param name='wmode' value='transparent' /><embed src='http://www.youtube.com/v/vZxRjtWt-uw&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' allowfullscreen='true' width='425' height='350' wmode='transparent'></embed></object></span></p>
<p>15 <span style='text-align:center; display: block;'><object width='425' height='350'><param name='movie' value='http://www.youtube.com/v/2gS3Nsaji_M&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' /><param name='allowfullscreen' value='true' /><param name='wmode' value='transparent' /><embed src='http://www.youtube.com/v/2gS3Nsaji_M&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' allowfullscreen='true' width='425' height='350' wmode='transparent'></embed></object></span></p>
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<title><![CDATA[one step forward, two steps back]]></title>
<link>http://cofiboi.wordpress.com/2009/10/22/one-step-forwared-two-steps-back/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 04:32:10 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>cofiboi</dc:creator>
<guid>http://cofiboi.wordpress.com/2009/10/22/one-step-forwared-two-steps-back/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[this dance is getting old. i don&#8217;t why being in the gray area is a constant occurrence in my l]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-43" title="confused" src="http://cofiboi.wordpress.com/files/2009/10/confused.jpg?w=300" alt="confused" width="300" height="214" /> this dance is getting old.  i don&#8217;t why being in the gray area is a constant occurrence in my life. i would rather know the real score than staying in the status quo.  my question is, should i even wait?  i feel like the clash&#8217;s song, &#8220;should i stay, or should i go?&#8221;</p>
<p>sometimes, i feel like i&#8217;m staying a masochistic relationship and the loser would always be me.</p>
<p>why then, is it so hard for me to let go and try to start anew? what is holding me back? maybe because i am scared to go out of my comfort zone and try something i haven&#8217;t done in a long time? or maybe what i have right now what i have is better than nothing. should i even settle?</p>
<p>the more i ask these questions, new ones pop up. it&#8217;s a sick cycle and i want to get out of it. seems like everyday is a struggle. each day i convince myself that i should settle for what i have and try to be happy with my lot. but i&#8217;m not.</p>
<p>this indecision is making me look weak and being weak should not be what i am right now. i don&#8217;t like it when i start to resent the things that i do when before i just did it because i am happy doing it. but as each day crawls on to the next, i&#8217;m getting more and more exhausted.</p>
<p>yesterday, i got to talk to somebody and i finally asked him where i stand in his life and all i got was the same gray area answer. which is but a reflection of what&#8217;s on my plate.</p>
<p>on some days i get the resolve to do something about my situation but it all gets drowned in all of life&#8217;s complexities. there are more questions than answers.</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>there are more questions than answers.</strong></p></blockquote>
<p>i want to do something, be somewhere else, so bad, but i just can&#8217;t and i don&#8217;t know why.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Long live paperclip :))]]></title>
<link>http://lockedinthoughts.wordpress.com/2009/10/07/long-live-paperclip/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 17:33:05 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>lockedinthoughts</dc:creator>
<guid>http://lockedinthoughts.wordpress.com/2009/10/07/long-live-paperclip/</guid>
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<title><![CDATA[Theatre: a bit like reading, if a book were charades]]></title>
<link>http://vsadams.wordpress.com/2009/09/29/theatre-a-bit-like-reading-if-a-book-were-charades/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 16:26:50 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>vsadams</dc:creator>
<guid>http://vsadams.wordpress.com/2009/09/29/theatre-a-bit-like-reading-if-a-book-were-charades/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Now that the large piles of paper have been reduced to three important paperclips&#8217; worth of sc]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-19" title="thesis in 3....2...1..." src="http://vsadams.wordpress.com/files/2009/09/photo-2.jpg?w=300" alt="thesis in 3....2...1..." width="300" height="225" />Now that the large piles of paper have been reduced to three important paperclips&#8217; worth of scraps of paper, I am allowed out the house to go see <em>The Pitmen Painters</em> at the Theatre Royal.</p>
<p>Preliminary reports suggest that the zombie count will be low, but that it should still be good.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Productivity at Its Finest]]></title>
<link>http://targettheory.wordpress.com/2009/09/18/productivity-at-its-finest/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 13:50:19 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Nauman</dc:creator>
<guid>http://targettheory.wordpress.com/2009/09/18/productivity-at-its-finest/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Burning in a city of ice... We all have to work&#8230; dragging ourselves out of bed each day in ord]]></description>
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<p>We all have to work&#8230; dragging ourselves out of bed each day in order to go into our workplace where we need to expend energy and effort to get things done. But who says we can&#8217;t have fun while at work?</p>
<p>In a recent meeting in my company&#8217;s boardroom, I broke apart a paperclip while listening to someone talk and I realized that I had five pieces&#8230; so I laid out the five pieces to form a torso, two legs and two arms on the desk. It reminded me of the doll from the first season of <em>Dexter</em> that was left in Dexter&#8217;s fridge by an enemy. I then wrote out on a piece of paper Dexter&#8217;s famous line of &#8220;he&#8217;s asking me if I want to play, and yes, I want to play, I really want to play&#8230;&#8221; and left the piece of paper there in the boardroom with the paperclip pieces.</p>
<p>Last month, I left a note in the boardroom for others to read when they&#8217;d eventually come into the boardroom about how it makes no sense for the Wizards and Magic to play each other in the NBA since the two are supposed to go hand in hand. I went as far as explaining that any wizard playing without magic was in for a long night&#8230;</p>
<p>The President of the company that I work at already thinks that I&#8217;m crazy since I pull pranks on other people all the time while seemingly coming up with very creative ideas and presentations for major issues. An example: I named our software implementation project as &#8220;Project Firestarter&#8221;&#8230; we&#8217;re a lumber yard.</p>
<p>Other wonderful things that I&#8217;ve done are:</p>
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<li>Changing the order of the keys on peoples&#8217; keyboards or writing messages out of the letters on their keyboards</li>
<li>Attaching a computer mouse to the bottom of a chair so that when that specific person moves their chair, the mouse moves along too like as if it&#8217;s a real mouse intended to scare them</li>
<li>Turning everything upside-down at someone&#8217;s desk including their monitor, keyboard, chair, personal possessions, papers, stuffed animals and more</li>
<li>Changing the radio station everytime a specific person leaves the room intended to make that person paranoid that the radio station keeps changing</li>
<li>Giving a 5-minute speech in front of about 15 people for a meeting about how I tried to come up with a topic for my 5-minute speech and how I subsequently never did come up with a topic and then used the lack of a topic as my speech&#8217;s topic &#8211; and then titled the speech as &#8220;The Topic of Topics&#8221;&#8230;</li>
<li>Watching hip-hop videos in the boardroom and turning up the music loud enough so that when people walked by the boardroom, they&#8217;d wonder what kind of meeting was taking place and how come they were missing out</li>
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<p>Productivity is no good if you can&#8217;t have fun doing it&#8230; might as well travel the road less traveled in order to get a wild ride from it.</p>
<p><em>&#8220;Only thing that’s on my mind is who gon’ run this town tonight&#8230;&#8221;<br />
- Run This Town (Jay-Z)</em></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Anchor This: 2009, 09-16]]></title>
<link>http://luxverum.wordpress.com/2009/09/16/anchor-this-2009-09-16/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:36:19 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>verumlux</dc:creator>
<guid>http://luxverum.wordpress.com/2009/09/16/anchor-this-2009-09-16/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[G. H. Estabrooks &#8211; Subpersonalities / Hypnosis Operation Paperclip MK Ultra Project Monarch Pr]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>G. H. Estabrooks &#8211; Subpersonalities / Hypnosis<br />
Operation Paperclip<br />
MK Ultra<br />
Project Monarch<br />
Project Phoenix</p>
<p>Colin A. Ross &#8211; Project &#8220;Bluebird&#8221;</p>
<p>Multiple Eyes &#8211; blank stare type look when in a subpersonality state / conscience is overridden</p>
<p>Russ Dizdar &#8211; <a href="http://www.shatterthedarkness.net/">http://www.shatterthedarkness.net/</a></p>
<p>For an example, search Youtube for Derren Brown&#8217;s presentation on hypnotizing someone to be drunk without actually being drunk. He uses a &#8216;key word&#8217; to bring this &#8217;state&#8217; back to the forefront of a person&#8217;s reality. A &#8216;programmed state&#8217; coming to reality front upon reading/seeing/hearing the code.</p>
<h6><span style='text-align:center; display: block;'><object width='425' height='350'><param name='movie' value='http://www.youtube.com/v/bPM0BkMSZCU&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' /><param name='allowfullscreen' value='true' /><param name='wmode' value='transparent' /><embed src='http://www.youtube.com/v/bPM0BkMSZCU&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' allowfullscreen='true' width='425' height='350' wmode='transparent'></embed></object></span><br />
<span style="color:#993300;">Link: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPM0BkMSZCU">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPM0BkMSZCU</a> </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPM0BkMSZCU"></a></h6>
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<title><![CDATA[Hello Paperclip!]]></title>
<link>http://ambermk.wordpress.com/2009/09/16/hello-paperclip/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 10:49:54 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>ambermk</dc:creator>
<guid>http://ambermk.wordpress.com/2009/09/16/hello-paperclip/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been using paperclips to make and do all sorts of things over the years. Now I&#8217;ve d]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>I&#8217;ve been using paperclips to make and do all sorts of things over the years. Now I&#8217;ve discovered a woman after my own heart! How could you not want one of these incredible Paperclip Chandeliers?!<br />
<img src="http://ambermk.wordpress.com/files/2009/09/paperclip-chandelier.jpg" alt="paperclip chandelier" title="paperclip chandelier" width="430" height="445" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-127" /><br />
 <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=7313464">ReDesign Technologies</a> fashions these works of art from that office supply staple, I mean, paperclip!</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Double Shot #526]]></title>
<link>http://afreshcup.com/2009/08/26/double-shot-526/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 10:50:04 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Mike Gunderloy</dc:creator>
<guid>http://afreshcup.com/2009/08/26/double-shot-526/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Hopefully this will be the day to get rid of some of the peskier bugs. Baseline &#8211; Yet another ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Hopefully this will be the day to get rid of some of the peskier bugs.</p>
<ul>
<li><strong><a href="http://baselinecss.com/">Baseline</a></strong> &#8211; Yet another CSS design framework.</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://robots.thoughtbot.com/post/171499670/testing-paperclip-s3">Testing Paperclip on S3 with Cucumber &#38; Factory Girl</a></strong> &#8211; A how-to from Thoughtbot.</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://www.apigee.com/">Apigee</a></strong> &#8211; &#8220;Analytics and Protection for APIs and Mashups.&#8221; Looks quite useful if you want things like rate-throttling and don&#8217;t want to code them yourself.</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://rubyforge.org/projects/rvm/">Ruby Version Manager</a></strong> &#8211; Gem to handle switching easily between multiple ruby installs. Early days, haven&#8217;t played with it myself but it&#8217;s getting some good Twitter buzz.</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://wiki.github.com/mark-moseley/ruby-debug">ruby-debug19</a></strong> &#8211; Port of ruby-debug to ruby 1.9.</li>
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<title><![CDATA[Showdown with Russia and China: U.S. Advances First Strike Global Missile Shield System]]></title>
<link>http://dprogram.net/2009/08/19/showdown-with-russia-and-china-u-s-advances-first-strike-global-missile-shield-system/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 23:20:46 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>sakerfa</dc:creator>
<guid>http://dprogram.net/2009/08/19/showdown-with-russia-and-china-u-s-advances-first-strike-global-missile-shield-system/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[On August 13th the Pentagon&#8217;s Missile Defense Agency (MDA) and Chicago-based Boeing Internatio]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Paperclip Lamp by David Wykes and Benoit Collette]]></title>
<link>http://myhouseismycastle.wordpress.com/2009/08/18/paperclip-lamp-by-david-wykes-and-benoit-collette/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 10:23:50 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>myhouseismycastle</dc:creator>
<guid>http://myhouseismycastle.wordpress.com/2009/08/18/paperclip-lamp-by-david-wykes-and-benoit-collette/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[This ones been &#8220;doing the rounds&#8221; for a few days now and we&#8217;ve finally found the b]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>This ones been &#8220;doing the rounds&#8221; for a few days now and we&#8217;ve finally found the breathing space to push it a little as well.</p>
<p>Years ago, as we still made our living selling wares on farmers markets, we once drove a hired van into the sharp corner of another traders caravan hatch&#8230; We&#8217;ll never forget the overpowering, nauseousness as we realised the windscreen was cracked.</p>
<p>A similar feeling gripped as as we saw the first image at <a href="http://www.papercliplamp.com/" target="_blank">papercliplamp.com</a></p>
<div id="attachment_1107" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 310px"><img class="size-medium wp-image-1107" title="apaperclip" src="http://myhouseismycastle.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/apaperclip.jpg?w=300" alt="Paperclip Lamp: An idea takes shape...." width="300" height="180" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Paperclip Lamp: An idea takes shape....</p></div>
<p>We all sit and bend paperclips, we all spend our days thinking about design, form and function, we all turn a table lamp on as the hour grows later.</p>
<p>Yet only Seattle based David Wykes and Benoit Collette managed to see the connection.</p>
<p>And irritating for us as that is, we did have to laugh when we thought of the Hamburg Student show at <a href="http://myhouseismycastle.wordpress.com/category/dmy-berlin/" target="_blank">DMY Youngsters</a> in Berlin and how many of their lamps were almost a paperclip &#8230;but just not quite.</p>
<p>There is very little one need say about the paperclip lamp, it is pure design and belongs next to every MacBook on an uncluttered desk.</p>
<p>Fold it out when you need light and fold it down when your finished.</p>
<p>Fantastic.</p>
<p>More deatils on the Paperclip Lamp at <a href="http://www.papercliplamp.com/" target="_blank">http://www.papercliplamp.com/</a></p>
<div id="attachment_1112" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 430px"><img class="size-full wp-image-1112" title="papercliplamp_2" src="http://myhouseismycastle.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/papercliplamp_2.jpg" alt="Paperclip Lamp" width="420" height="391" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Paperclip Lamp by David Wykes and Benoit Collette...</p></div>
<div id="attachment_1113" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 430px"><img class="size-full wp-image-1113" title="papercliplamp_3" src="http://myhouseismycastle.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/papercliplamp_3.jpg" alt="papercliplamp_3" width="420" height="422" /><p class="wp-caption-text">...does pretty much what you&#39;d expect...</p></div>
<div id="attachment_1114" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 430px"><img class="size-full wp-image-1114" title="papercliplamp_4" src="http://myhouseismycastle.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/papercliplamp_4.jpg" alt="papercliplamp_4" width="420" height="381" /><p class="wp-caption-text">...just with much more style</p></div>
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<link>http://swacle.wordpress.com/2009/08/17/the-red-paperclip-guy/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 18:19:12 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[  We keep hearing about a guy who used a paperclip to trade up, in a series of swaps, until he got a]]></description>
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<p>We keep hearing about a guy who used a paperclip to trade up, in a series of swaps, until he got a house. We thought this was a myth people use to prove a point&#8230; But it turns out he really exists!</p>
<p>Kyle MacDonald started in July 2005 and finished in July 2006. He <a title="Paperclip blog" href="http://oneredpaperclip.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">blogged</a> about it and also has a <a title="Paperclip book" href="http://www.randomhouse.co.uk/minisites/oneredpaperclip/" target="_blank">book</a> out. See <a title="Kyle MacDonald" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyle_MacDonald" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a> for a timeline of his trades.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[The Paperclip Lamp]]></title>
<link>http://whatmeanstheworld.wordpress.com/2009/08/31/the-paperclip-lamp/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 11:15:30 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>whatmeanstheworld</dc:creator>
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<p><a href="http://www.papercliplamp.com/" target="_blank">http://www.papercliplamp.com/</a></p>
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