Monthly Archives: February 2008

phpsh needs ctags file

Thanks, Facebook developers: phpsh is nice. It needs a file that describes your project, to give you fast access to your function docs. The file is generated by exuberant ctags. (sudo port install ctags.) To avoid warnings when generating the … Continue reading

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Io: my errno adventure in C

This pastie holds my first C patch. It actually repaired a Readline problem that appeared on my Mac when I git pull‘d Io’s source today. See the Io issue at their bugtracker. The pgsql heroes fixed the problem way before, … Continue reading

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Web Hacking? Hackmeetup!

Our little Open Source Tuesday was yesterday night – we had a sit-down, took out our laptops, and continued our projects. All three of us. I worked on understanding the PHP build system and workflow when creating C extensions. Got … Continue reading

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Fortran Board Game

Fortran Board Game Originally uploaded by ChipX86 I lack words. The subtitle: Input: Reason – Output: Pleasure

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Mercurial fanboy

I am impressed with the simplicity of Mercurial (the distributed version control system). It’s Python, and it’s got a built-in webserver, so it’s simple to show stuff to people: hg serve [OPTION]… export the repository via HTTP Start a local … Continue reading

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Marketing that Open Source Tuesday

20 Originally uploaded by Br0m Today I asked Henriette Weber where to post the concept of “hack meetups” in Malmö to get folks to know about it. She said she’d email the BarCamp Copenhagen mailing list. Excellent idea. Thanks. Also, … Continue reading

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Obama, Open Government: machine-readable govt documentation trails

By reading random($foo), which had a long list of Obama facts, I now understand why Mr. Barack Obama is a chance for USA to heal. I endorse that guy. Read about machine-readable docs at the xkcd guy’s blog. Programming folks … Continue reading

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Neologism: kanonsnabel

Neologism: “Där får man nog dra fram lite starkare kanonsnablar“. Tolkning: “Mer avancerade debuggingverktyg måste användas där.”

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Web Hacking Oresund website up

I made a little web site for the hands-on Open Source group we’re putting together in here Malmö. That’s a little more Google-friendly: http://hackmeetup.ollehost.dk is the URL to Web Hacking Oresund. I used the simple Ruby project Webgen to make … Continue reading

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Talk on software quality with phpUnderControl

Update: More details on the place, and THANKS to Peytz & co. for hosting. The dog ate my fine blog post about the PHP Meetup this past Thursday. So I reconstruct this from memory. The past Thursday, there was a … Continue reading

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