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Stomperudrittet 2011

Sport

Last Sunday I attended in Stomperudrittet. 37 kilometers with plenty of mud, mud and more mud. Due to heavy rain the last month in fact it was really heavy conditions, tires where sucked down into the mud in a way I had never experienced before. Even going downhill on the fields were really heavy and I was not able to gain any speed at all, in fact running was almost as easy. But – very much fun also.

My plan was to film before start and afterwards, since my friends Anders and Lars also attended, but I did not bother. Only thing I had in my mind when I had passed the finish line was to clean my bike and then myself. And when at home I even had to flush them using the garden hose.

Hoping for better conditions next year.

Oh what a beautiful morning

Sport

OBS-varsel for Vestfold, Østfold og Buskerud, Oslo og Akershus:I natt og fram til søndag formiddag lokalt kraftige byger med store nedbørverdier.

Google translate translates this into:

OBS alert for Vestfold, Østfold and Buskerud, Oslo and Akershus: Last night until Sunday morning locally heavy showers with heavy rain values.

And I’m about to participate in Stomperudrittet…looking forward to it…not really sure

Regex in Groovy: Match characters and some special ones

Work/Geek

I’m writing a script that validates a file with key/value-pairs. One type of a valid value is a JNDI-name. Before the actual name it is also a whitespace. So my if-statement with the regex validating ended up like this

currentLine ==~ /^.*=\s+[A-Za-z0-9\/-]+/

To explain it:

  • ==~ means validate true/false, see http://groovy.codehaus.org/Tutorial+4+-+Regular+expressions+basics
  • Then the regex starts and ends with a forward slash
  • ^.*= means match lines with text containing any type of character ending with an equal sign (the keys)
  • \s+ means match one or more whitespaces. Should really just need to verify one and only one, but what the heck…
  • [A-Za-z0-9\/-]+ is a character class saying match all uppercase letters, all lowercase, all numbers and also forward slashes and hyphens. Some of the names have hyphens so I needed that one to. The + sign at the end says “one or more occurences”, see the heading “Regular Expression Operators” found on the above mentioned link

Handyman in action yet again

Anything but the other

Yesterday helping Vegard out carrying roof tiles just to realize today that riding the bike 5 days a week does not build muscles. Luckily Vegard is a hard core handyman, he has even built his own truck using an old tractor and parts from an actual truck, how cool is that? So we only had to spread them out on the roof, good thing we did not have to carry them up the ladder as well.

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