Digging into Nix
I've heard good things about Nix. It's time to take it for a spin. abramowi at marcs-mbp-3 in ~ $ curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf -L https://install.determinate.systems/nix | sh -s -- install info: downloading installer...
Category: General
Time to revive this blog
I last posted to this blog in 2015. Wow. Time to get things going again, I think...
Back from Maui
We're back in town after a wonderful trip to Maui!
Compiling FreeTDS on Windows
This is how I got FreeTDS to compile on Windows 7 Professional with Visual Studio 2008. 1. Install Visual Studio 2008 (a.k.a.: Visual Studio 9.0) 2. Download the FreeTDS 0.91 source tarball and extract it somewhere. I chose...
Plone and Zope time
Doing my yearly ritual of looking at Plone & Zope and making sure I still don't grok them. Check. In this year's installment, I set up a little Plone site and actually got as far as creating a custom content type. I started down...
Carbonite woes
I’ve been using Carbonite for a while and it’s worked well most of this time (though how do you know if a backup tool is working?), but recently I’ve started to notice a few issues with it and I may end up...
My custom Alfred.app searches
I thought others might find a couple of my custom searches and fallback searches for Alfred.app interesting. When I type some text that doesn't match anything, here's what I get: The "Jira search" entry searches my company's...