Monthly Archives: April 2007
Patch day for Rails, in Copenhagen
The inimitable Jakob tells all about the upcoming Rails patch night, so I won’t say more than “it is a great way of getting into Rails” (Rails, the Open Source project; and Rails, the codebase). (I won’t be there, I … Continue reading
List outdated port names with awk
MacPorts. Sometimes your ports are outdated. There’s a pseudo-portname for them. The report has many columns. And I only want the names, not their versions. port list outdated | awk ‘BEGIN { RS=”\n” } { print $1 }’ > names_of_old_ports.txt … Continue reading
Look, Ma! (linked Io glimpse)
The Io blog points to a ramshackle example Io thing authored by me and quag. If you’ve heard about Io, and wonder what it looks like, this is a… very small example. (I didn’t know they’d gone and published it, … Continue reading
Copenhagen.rb meetup: Puppet and fringe activity
Juri presented the amazing Puppet framework for controlling servers. He controls about 20 servers with it. Think of Puppet’s files as “setup Rakefiles for servers” which is version-controlled, monitored, and written in a very terse DSL. Seems slick. Juri might … Continue reading
RuPy 2007, European hacker meetup
Dear hackers: %w(Ruby Python).each {|lang| lang.discuss } Thanks for a great weekend. “I’ll see you on the Internets” has never rung more true than when I and Tomek and Krzysztof hurried out to a waiting taxi (driven by a talkative … Continue reading
Going to RuPy? Here is the IRC channel
Upcoming conference in Poznan: RuPy. There was no IRC channel mentioned on the website, so I took the liberty to start preaching about one! On irc.freenode.net — #rupy Add that to you autojoin, mate. [tags]rupy,conference[/tags]
Fastavaled-out
Oh, that roleplaying game convention is just amazing. Even though I underscheduled this year, to have more time to meet with people, I had things to be done all the time, it seemed. Schmoozed with amazing folks. All the folks … Continue reading