Programming

I love Ruby! This little known gem from Japan is fast becoming the most interesting language I have ever used. It’s more Object Oriented than… Read More »Ruby is my Matz’r Now!

I’ve been learning Ruby on Rails this week, following the examples in the “Agile Web Developement with Rails” book. In creating the depot project I… Read More »Ruby on Rails – error

I switched to CentOS at work to match my co-worker. CentOS uses the Enterprise Red Hat distro for its base. I have been using Ubuntu… Read More »CentOS

Sometimes I’m reminded of a particular book or website and I feel that every programmer should know about it. This excerpt from Eric S. Raymond’s… Read More »Unix Philosphy

This is a good screen shot driven article for setting up Mono on SuSE 10. I really don’t care for SuSE, I use Ubuntu. But… Read More »Setting Up SuSE 10 for Mono

One of our servers at work fell victim to several run-away processes, that’s putting it lightly, and we found that we had to monitor it… Read More »Sentinel

I’ve been continuing my studies of Perl and have been adding to the script, ThinkingOfAnimals.pl. I’ve added some modules that extrapolate out some functionality. IO_LIB.pm… Read More »Thinking of an Animal, Part 2

In learning a new programming language, I will often make a one-off program to explore the language and get real-life experience in using it. With… Read More »Perl Practice

Many geeks take pride in their hardware and will boast about it without prompting. Some of us are less boastful and are hard pressed to… Read More »Hardware