A totally random FreeBSD tip
A totally random FreeBSD tip
Category: General
Updating WordPress via Subversion
Following Scott Yang's nice post, I am now using a version of WordPress checked out from the Subversion 2.0 branch. It's quite nice to be able to update WordPress to the latest version simply by doing: (more…)...
New toilet shut-off valve
A few weeks ago while installing a new fill valve in our toilet, I bent the rigid metal tubing that goes from the shut-off valve to the toilet a bit too much and it kinked and then broke. Unfortunately, the tubing and the...
Key fob hack
I have one of those RSA key fob things that cycles randomly through numbers for authenticating to my company's VPN. Unfortunately, it's all too common for me to leave the thing at work or to leave it at home or to have it fall...
Lisp is Sin
A Microsoft employee talks about his experiences with Lisp/Scheme, the current state of the Lisp world and how Lisp might and should change. And how alluring Lisp is to the non-Lisp programmer yet being unaccessible. My favorite...
Microsoft’s “Monad” scripting language
Ted Neward says that Microsoft's new "Monad" scripting language can replace Ruby I doubt that. Ruby is cross-platform. And Ruby is typically used for web apps (e.g.: Ruby on Rails, which is where a lot of Ruby excitement comes...