Tag Archives: software

Giving Rails a try

As of late I’ve begun to tire of writing the same old CRUD interfaces over and over. So I’ve been looking at web app. frameworks that may remove some of the drudgery. The contenders are:

Maypole(perl)
Rails(ruby)
CherryPy(python)

Currently, Maypole is my top contender. It’s Perl based(we do lots of Perl), seems to do “enough” without [...]

Simplicity

Yet another good analogy.

IBM Restore

Long story but I now have a IBM T40 laptop to play with. I’ve been running Ubuntu Warty on it for a while and decided that since:
A. Ubuntu Hoary pre-release just came out and
B. The laptop came with XP and it might be worth having a 10G partition with XP installed around.
IBM in it’s [...]

Ajax

What a great idea, give a name and description to the toolkit/model we try/are trying to follow.

new look

I’m attempting a new look here using LJ’s S2 style system. Perhaps the most complicated theme engine ever. Some things may looks strange as I straighten all the kinks.

crapdot

/. has been teetering on the verge for a while, but a few articles posted today/this week officially put it’s status as “jumping the shark”. My home page is now changed. Goodbye /. it was good knowing ya. Anyone have a suggestion for a new home page?

Pixie Dust

A sprinkle of this and a sprinkle of that(ssh -D 8000 remote.com)

Recent “thinkings”

Probably coined many times before me, but any how, my first law:
No matter how many times you proof an email for posting to a listserv, an obvious error will always become immediately apparent when you read the copy of the message the list sends back to you after posting.
I think we should add a question [...]

Gmail fun

Now to expand this to package storage/loading

Found on a /. comment thread

fedora is good for set it and forget it,
Coincidentally, so is the Ronco Shotime indoor rotisserie and BBQ.