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 /etc/ mongrel\_cluster/$1.yml; } cluster\_stop () { mongrel\_rails cluster::stop -C /etc/mongrel\_cluster/$1.yml; } usage: $ cluster_start fluxura …
Category Archives: General
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 things don’t read themselves. A sidenote: using Haskell feels loads more natural to me compared …
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): > We picked the name Copenhagen.rb after some thought. Primarily since it’s a well-spread way of …
Rails meetup, tomorrow (29 July)!
Wow, wow, wow. We’ll talk about Rails, we’ll do high-fives, and go to that café. It’ll be fun. [Jesper](http://justaddwater.dk) raises a few questions in his blog post about Rails thoughts, and in the comments section [Casper Fabricius](http://www.kraftvaerk.net/index.php?id=298) points to stuff he picked up at [RailsConf](http://www.railsconf.org/). The little, fast Ruby web server [Mongrel](http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/)’s bigger than before. …
Textmate’s becoming my emacs
I am now typing this from [Textmate](http://macromates.com/), the Mac-only text-editing tool. I’m mighty pleased with Textmate, and now that [Tobias](http://blog.wrigstad.com/) pointed me to its Blogging bundle, more of my blogging will be done like this, from my favorite editor. *Update:* Trouble hit me with the tagging part. Perhaps the Ultimate Tag Warrior plugin and the …
Word of the day: caltrop
I’m a word guy. Today I name my first Word of the day: [Caltrop](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caltrop). There. In Swedish: fotangel (foot-anglers?). Luisa told me the Danish word: partisansøm (partisan nail). Danes get cooler words. Oh, my home country gets a shoutout in the Wikipedia article above: > Caltrops have been used by criminals in some countries to …
The talk I missed, linked here
Bruno Giussani blogs about Ben Hammersley’s talk at Reboot. Perfect! Just the talk-shortening for “give me the boldtype” people like me. Thanks a ton.
Now I know my way around Ruby
Learning a language, not completely mastering it, as others have said here, that was the goal. The goal at the 43things website. In the process of getting to know more about Ruby, I have bumped into people with the same ambition, started a club, and generally got more goals (learn FreeBSD to be able to …
Two of the million faces
[controlarms.org](http://controlarms.org/) has a funny campaign: upload a picture of you saying “no to the arms trade”. Then the website places your face searchable by country. Currently there are 12000 faces from Denmark. Here are my friends Jeppe and Michala at Vega. I uploaded an image myself, but it seems it’s not ok’ed yet. I’ll keep …
Tobias meets Gunnar (of Tennstopet)
This guy will serve [Tobias Wrigstad](http://blog.wrigstad.com): Tobias is defending his paper today, and he was finished an hour ago – I have no knowledge on how it went; whether Gunnar in the picture’s going to be a Kind Therapist, or a Hearty Reveler. My money’s on the latter. Update: **Doctor** Wrigstad’s luncheoning with his grading …