Metahint - intuitive site search

Metahint is the clever search extension for your website. It is still in Beta, but it is definitely worth trying it out.

Just start typing in the search box on the top-right side of my page, and you will see how easier it is for you to find content you need within my blog. You even get search-hints! And that is so far the best part of it. I think the part which could really make it useful is if it could be integrated as a plugin in Mozilla, making the indexed page accessible not only by installing a widget.

Let's put it like this: it is way better than Google's site search. You can get the widget from metahint.com. Definitely makes site search more fun!

Fixing Rails - Ajax charset issues

If you are developing a Rails applications with Ajax for an other language than the english, and you need to use the special characters like ä, ö, ü, you may have the unpleasant surprise to experience getting unreadable characters on your HTML page.
This problem is a little pain in the ass, as it took me a couple of hours to get more understanding of it. The problem was not that their aren't many posts talking about the problem and offering many solutions, but none worked for me. I found useful this post, and this one. Go through these posts if you still don't know what the problem is about.

The solution that worked for me:

before_filter :set_charset
def set_charset
  str_type = request.xhr? ? 'javascript' : 'html'
  headers['Content-Type'] = "text/#{str_type}; charset=ISO-8859-1"
end

Memo Game

I have found the Android developer challenge a really great competition to participate in, all the more the Android platform is going to get real in the near future. In my opinion, the mobile users, as well as mobile sphere have the most to win, from the appearance and rapid spread of the Android platform.

The application I have created is a memory game. It is an exciting board game, to be played for fun at all times. It even makes you think.


The application, through a user friendly interface, offers the users the chance to play the well-known Memory game now on the Android platform.

Currently under the tiles hide images. The user is able to select a theme from the following: car brands, Disney-figures, fruits and flowers.

After the application is started, the game is on. The user needs to click on the tiles appeared on the screen and try to find a pair of matching tiles. If identical images are discovered under two different tiles - a matching pair was discovered. The game continues until all the tiles with identical images are found or the user leaves the game.

The project is hosted by: Code Google under memogame. From there it is available for download for free.