So I have recently decided to get my act together, and start up my business ventures again. It has been a few years though, so I need to get my hands on some new accounting software. “So much has changed”, I though to myself. “There is going to be a lot of really cool accounting [...]

One of my favorite features of Ruby is Ruby Gems, the powerful package manager. There are tons of Ruby libraries available as gems such as Rails, Mongrel, and even one for Twitter. The gem I find the most useful nowadays is called cheat. Cheat basically puts tons of cheat sheets inside of your command line, [...]

The other day I stumbled upon a very useful keyboard shortcut for Mac OS X Leopard. If you hit ‘option’ + ’shift’ + ‘volume down’ or ‘volume up’ you will get a more sensitive volume control. Four times more sensitive to be exact. This is useful if you have very sensitive speakers that need a [...]

Thanks to Django's great unicode support which merged on July 4 a textile error has emerged. Luckily, there is a remarkably simple fix.
The problem
You used to be able to do this:
textile.textile(self.body)
But that would lead to this error:
‘ascii’ codec can’t decode byte 0xb4 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)
This happens because textile is trying to [...]