Parsing Ruby for Porting
Ive recently started a research project to port a Ruby workflow engine (OpenWFEru) to Python. I thought that if I could write a basic Ruby parser I could at…
A Web 2.0 Bubble?
Reuters reported this morning that the number of contributors to many Web 2.0 sites such as YouTube and Flickr is much smaller than the number of people who come…
Upgrading to Subversion 1.4 on a Fedora Core 4 Server
Yesterday Eric asked me to upgrade our Subversion version from 1.2 to 1.4 in order to take advantage of the new XML responses needed by CruiseControl.rb. My first clue…
Does the virtual world equal the real world?
This is the question that the FBI is asking of Second Life as they investigate Second Lifes casinos. The three biggest casinos, according to the CNN article, make $1,500/month…
Comparing DateTime and Date
For my project Novo, Ive been working on a script to sync my Apple iCal to Googles gCal. Think of it as a poor mans version of SpanningSync. One…
RE: System logs as reproducible scripts
Duane Gran recently pinged me about thoughts on “System logs as reproducible scripts”. Its a topic that Ive been running into recently as weve gone into testing a web…
Continous Integration Tools Market is splitting…
In the beginning there was CruiseControl, the original Continous Integration tool. Most people, including myself, cut there teeth on CruiseControl. Then, over time, a couple of opensource projects started…
Better iTunes song deduping
**Update 4/24/2011. TidySongs is now Rinse! Same great product, but new vendor with a deeper music database that seems to match better. Ive updated the links. ** *Update 5/16/2010….
How to dedupe your iTunes collection
Update 5/25/20 Rinse appears to be gone, or just out of date and bad. Not sure, with Apple Music etc if we dedupe these days! Update 4/24/2011. TidySongs is…
Selenium Boot Camp
In true something or other style, at last nights Selenium Boot Camp the teacher was the student. We decided to hold an after hours “boot camp” so we could…
Social Networking 2.0, A Blessing and a Curse
When I was in the Army, a useful skill that I had was knowing who could do what and being a favor broker. Managing a much larger network is…
OSCON 1st day exhibit thoughts
The biggest thing that surprised me was the preponderance of Perl developers at the convention. For a “dying language,” Perl seems to be pretty alive and well. I also…