Against entropy.
My Ruby rusts on the shelf. OK, here goes the evn, explainer: [08:28] evn: did you know ruby 1.9 has an autoloading thing [08:28] evn: its kind of odd [08:28] evn: its like a lazy require [08:28] evn: you have to set it up [08:28] evn: but it doesnt happen until the constant gets referenced …
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Conferences: lots of folks you want to meet, many spaces to be in, lots happening at the same time. In Danish they call it “at gÃ¥ glip” (to miss out). Getting good at missing out is an important part of growing up. Wait, I’m not trying to tell you to cope with your fear of …
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They say that the people of Flock have worked on the memory leakage issues of Firefox. I’m trying that out for truth (by running Flock). If Flock manages to pull me away from NetNewsWire Lite, I’ll be a happy toad. Less apps. That I now have my social media items under my fingertips all the …
A Swede made the first WideFinder implementation in Io: Ragnar Dahlén. The results were informative, but not performant. Io can not compete just there, just yet. Me and Thorbiörn were conspiring last week to implement WideFinder, but we got waylaid by… distractions. The distractions were speculative, lazy, and touched on different OCamls. Like this: “We …
At the last meeting with Copenhagen.rb, I said I’d test out Crosscheck – a JavaScript testing framework, suited for continuous integration or command-line testing. I had just tried getting it to run, following the slightly outdated Add Event tutorial. At last I got it to work, but I had to actually read the text, not …
Last night, a Ruby club meet, which was interesting, but the feeling I got was “you hadda have been at RailsConf”. And I wasn’t, so bummer. Informal atmosphere allows one to play with one’s laptop while others are reminiscing: ActiveWarehouse a data warehousing application. Could be very interesting. Funny: me and Isak had said “Let’s …
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The Ruby folks in Texas know how to please a soft-heart like me: This is a non-profit conference. The organizers are not paid and any profits will be used for future conferences. Also, the financial books are open and we will be publishing payables and receivables. The purpose of this is to help other conference …
Thorbiorn has started the practical parts of his amazing programming language project called Project Polyglot. Read more at Thorbiorn’s now-actually-a-little-active weblog. “The ball is rolling.” [tags]programming,programminglanguages,projectpolyglot[/tags]
“Without Internet connection, it is only a DVD player.” Quoth Oscar Berg, a wiseguy. Word to the wise.
Evan showed the world his “weak Ruby script” to find-and-replace in multiple files, and was pointed to the amazing rpl utility. Let’s see what the port maintainer has written about the rpl tool. $ port info rpl rpl 1.4.0, textproc/rpl (Variants: universal) http://www.laffeycomputer.com/rpl.html rpl is a Unix text replacement utility. It will replace strings with …