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FSF says that you should avoid iPhone and suggests OpenMoko Freerunner as alternative

iPhone is not the only option. There are better alternatives on the horizon that respect your freedom, don’t spy on you, play free media formats, and let you use free software — like the FreeRunner.

And here’s a small review of user expreience on OpneMoko out of the box interface:

Time Article:

The idea is that happy, empowered employees beget happy customers.

So this morning I was trying to update a testing machine with my shiny new Rails app. 

• Remove the sqlite database - CHECK
• run rake db:migrate - CHECK
• start the application

Now there were no errors anywhere. But I still get:

SQLite3::SQLException: SQL logic error or missing database

After usual googling around and trying to fix it I just saw what the problem with the Query is. The reason for the exception is putting a ‘NULL’ into non NULL column. And SQLite says “missing database”. Way to write the exceptions. 

Note to Self: Always write meaningful or at least non-misleading exception messages.

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iPhone 3G

• 3G
• GPS
• 70 Countries including Netherlands
• 8GB for $199, 16GB for $299 
• Available on July 11th.

Apple Stores and iPhone Dev Center down already. In about 1 hour we’ll know answers to these questions:

• New Macs ?
• New iPhone … ? 
• AppStore Apps demo  ?
• SnowLeopard ?
• [[NsMacRumor random] isTrue]  ?

Here’s an interesting new online presentation making application. It is called 280slides It looks very similar to Keynote application on Mac. According to the developers the application is built using new a new language/extension to JavaScript, which they call Objective-J. Also the user interface is built using Cappuccino similar to Apple’s Cocoa. I can’t wait to see how this is built. I must say the interface is pretty slick and useable. On my Safari it says 3 errors though. 

Ruby On Rails 2008 is in Amsterdam on 10th June. I’ve already reserved my seat. I heard and I hope that most of the conference will be in English. But I don’t want to miss it anyway. The speakers include Zed Shaw and Charles Oliver Nutter (JRuby).

More info about the conference is on the RubyEnRails [Dutch] site.