I have been wanting to learn [Ruby](http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/), and
I recently started playing with [FUSE](http://fuse.sourceforge.net/), for
creating file systems in user space in Unix.
And a couple of days ago, [Marcel](http://marcel-g.homeip.net/) 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 [...]
Entries from March 2007
MetaweblogFS: Ruby, FUSE, XML-RPC, oh my
March 31st, 2007 · 9 Comments
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)
How to match multi-line regular expressions in Emacs Lisp
March 27th, 2007 · 5 Comments
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)
New server
March 19th, 2007 · No Comments
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)