I have been wanting to learn Ruby, and I recently started playing with FUSE, for creating file systems in user space in Unix.
And a couple of days ago, Marcel asks me if I knew of any blogging client that would allow complete offline editing of the posts as files, and then synchronize them. That was enough to plant the seed [...]
Tags: Blogging · Linux · Programming
crafterm’s weblog : Blog content migration from MovableType to Typo using XML-RPC - Example of using the MetaWeblog API from Ruby. (0)
Using Locomotive as your default Ruby at Aral Balkan - How to use the (nicer) Ruby environment included with Locomotive instead of the one shipped with MacOS X. (0)
The Ultimate Getting Things Done Index - Pretty all-encompassing site linking to GTD-related resources. (0)
I was trying to fix the Emacs Template Toolkit mode file so that it correctly highlights multi-line directives. I could not find how to tell Emacs to make “.” match also a newline, but I found that the negative clause [^...] will match anything that is not specified, including newlines. So by using it with [...]
Tags: Programming · Tips & tricks
Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution - Full text of "Open Sources: voices from the open source revolution" by O’Reilly (0)
Mac OS X settings tips - A useful list of commands for manipulating hidden settings in MacOS X (0)
I just finished the transition of this blog (and other domains owned by me and Susana) from a server hosted at home to a proper server at a hosting facility, shared with our friends Annie and Tadek. Everything seems to have gone well, including migration of web and mail services. There shouldn’t be any visible [...]
Tags: Site news
WordPress - From Install to Pimped Out - Nice list of tricks for improving a wordpress install (0)
Because We Can - This is just too cool: a snippet of code that runs on C, C++, Perl, TeX, LaTeX, PostScript, sh, bash, zsh and Prolog, and does a different thing in each one. I have test it in all of them. (0)