Against entropy.
*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 with a homosexual orientation, then refrain from the commonplace word “lesbian”, since this also got …
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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 the “Fistful of Languages†blog comes in. This blog aims to address all aspects of …
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 averages: Past 1 min: 20.94, Past 5 min: 20.67, Past 15 min: 18.75 What’s w, …
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 Web2.0”, you know. Interested Nitro neophytes can head over to [Oxyliquit](http://www.oxyliquit.de/), the Nitro Q&A website, …
At the meeting yesterday evening, Jesper whipped out the largest PostIt I ever saw, and made an agenda for the next meeting. I said I was interested in talking a bit about Rails’ new direction wrt HTTP verbs: it seems [Casper Fabricius](http://casperfabricius.com/blog/) and the web has most of the information at hand: so enjoy [Casper’s …
**Update:** spelling, adding details, names, URLs. Sitting at the Copenhagen meetup, like some kind of backchannel geek. Typing. (There were five wireless networks around me, so I didn’t need the password to the bar where we sit. Quite a nice location, a quiet, loungy upstairs. I guess this post will be updated more than once. …
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After typing this into a closed forum window in a section for Reboot visitors, I noted that “Many of my people’ll never read this. Better blog it.” So here I go! After experiencing the near-mythical Pecha Kucha session (aka Guy’s 20×20 talks), I was stoked about almost every subject that had been touched. Somehow they …
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At Reboot, I was at a Ruby on Rails session called “Railways”, hosted by Jarkko Laine. A pleasant talky session which had the ostensible goal of introducing newcomers to old hands, to generate conversation. Danish Railser [Jesper](http://justaddwater.dk/2006/06/06/reboot8-roundup/) summed it up, and he and [Jakob Skjerning](http://mentalized.net/) (“aka Mentalized”, as the Danes will say, not believing you’ll …
So, you write about an upcoming event, so that your readership will know about it. Some read it, some miss it. The online event aggregators never heard about your weblog, and when they scanned it, they saw nothing but regular HTML. [Structured Blogging](http://structuredblogging.org/) has the tools to help those aggregators. By enhancing your “Write Post” …
Now, this blog is using [coComment](http://cocomment.com), to make my blog comments elsewhere visible to you folks, complete with their own RSS feed. (Service is free, simple, etc etc.) Privacy? I missed the JP Rangaswami presentation at Reboot, but it seemed like one the interesting ones (just test it with the surname litmus test: 10/10 – …