Karl-Petter Åkesson's blog

Macports and Rails after Snow Leopard

I recently upgraded to Snow Leopard but it was until today I really started with development again. And when starting up the Rails application locally I realized the MySQL connection was not working. I...

Remove a file or folder from a SVN repository

At the moment I'm writing some Rails applications and Subversion or GIT are the defacto standard when it comes to Rails. Have not used it that much before and for one of the applications I realized I had...

Setting up eclipse on Max OS X 10.5 for Java2ME development

This is how I did to compile a midlet on my Mac.

Downloaded Eclipse Pulsar, unzipped, renamed the folder to eclipse-pulsar and moved to Applications Downloaded MicroEmu from http://www.microemu.org/, unzipped it and moved the folder to /usr/local...

Eclipse hints

Using Eclipse on a Mac is a bit different from what I'm used to so here I'll document these differences I find....

Great tutorials to get started with Facebooker for Rails

The Tutorial for restful authentication on rails with facebook connect in 15 minutes was great to get Facebook Connect working. And then the Facebooker on Railswas great to use to get anything real done.

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Facebook Connect and OpenID for a new webservice

I have just started to implement an example prototype of the webservice for the YOUSAT project. Since we are going to connect to Facebook and other social network services OpenID support and...

24 hour Business Camp

I’m at 24hbc right now where 90 geeks and entrepreneurs has gathered to start, implement and finish 50 project ideas in 24 hours. We got a tough start when the net went down and it's not really up and working 100% yet....

Multi-touch surfaces and Computer Vision

More and more solutions for computer vision and specifically for multi-touch surfaces are appearing. So I thought it would be time to create a post and collect the ones I know about now and in the future add new ones....

Images and photos of pervasive games

Kersti asked me yesterday if I had any good photo of a typical pervasive game? Don't know if we have the perfect pervasive games photo yet so instead I sent Kersti a bunch of links for all the photos we have(see below)....

MLE user test in local newspaper.

The very very local newspaper in Kungsbacka wrote an article on our MLE test last week. Google's has a cached version of the article....