Monthly Archives: July 2006
Spam control: some choice words now blacklisted
*Public announcement:* Should anyone like to announce anything in the comments section about female breasts, in a colloquial manner, stay away from using the word “boobs”. I just blacklisted it. Use your imaginations. Also, should you want to discuss females … Continue reading
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bash functions example
Bradley Taylor (of [Railsmachine](http://railsmachine.com/) hosting fame) said this on [the excellent Mongrel mailing list](http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/mongrel-users): “Just use these bash functions and put them in your .bashrc:” cluster\_restart () { mongrel\_rails cluster::restart -C /etc/ mongrel\_cluster/$1.yml; } cluster\_start () { mongrel\_rails cluster::start -C … Continue reading
New Blog on DSLs: Little Languages
It was made official in the coolest way possible, in a [Lambda the Ultimate post](http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/1628), that the [LittleLanguages.net blog](http://www.littlelanguages.net/blog/) has begun. DSLs (domain-specific languages) are hip. The weblog “A Fistful of Languages” is a weblog about them. > Here’s where … Continue reading
Awk, text processing
Fooling around with load average output on a shared host (where it can be life-or-death): $ w -s|awk ‘/load average:/ { print “Load averages:\nPast 1 min: ” $10 “\nPast 5 min: ” $11 “\nPast 15 min: ” $12 }’ Load … Continue reading
Nitro: A Rails contender?
I copy-edited [a Nitro article](http://www.oxyliquit.de/tutorial/4) on using the fulltext search index facility [TSearch2](http://www.sai.msu.su/~megera/postgres/gist/tsearch/V2/) for [Postgres](http://www.postgresql.org/). (Smart way to read an article slowly enough to let all of it seep in.) [Nitro](http://www.nitroproject.org) is an MVC web framework written in Ruby. “For … Continue reading
Learning more Haskell
(Minor update: Removed a double-quote too much. Darn [AutoPairs](http://www.jwwalker.com/pages/autopairs.html). Maybe it can be configured.) [Jamis Buck](http://jamis.jamisbuck.org/articles/2005/10/30/learning-haskell) brought me back on track with learning Haskell: I have had the [Yet Another Haskell Tutorial PDF](http://www.isi.edu/~hdaume/htut/) on my laptop for ages, but those … Continue reading
Copenhagen.rb loosely coupled
In a comment here, Jesper said: > This may be a good place to mention that Jakob Skjerning set up the [Copenhagen Rails mailing list](http://lists.substancelab.com/mailman/listinfo/copenhagen.rb) (in Danish). Perhaps it even deserves a blog post. [Jakob](http://mentalized.net/) says (translated from Danish): > … Continue reading