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 Python and it’s as expressive as Perl without the ambiguity. It’s hands down the most… 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 hit a snag that I’d like to share, in the hopes that others will find… Read More »Ruby on Rails – error
Geek Garage Net is a technical net for those Hams who use Linux and who enjoy programming. The Newbie Net has morphed into a leaner, more focused net that is designed to appeal to the more technical members of the… Read More »New Net in the Treasure Valley, Idaho
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 for about a year now and I have to say, going back to a rpm… 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 “The Art of Unix Programming” should be mandatory reading for all programmers. If you haven’t… 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 for the intrepid, this is a good way to start. This article was written for… 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 constantly to see when another rogue process would bog it down. In order to do… 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 contains methods for writing to and reading from a file, and LOGIT.pm which makes a… 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 Perl, I created a programmatic version of a game I play with my kids as… 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 say exactly what we are running. I’m definitely in the later category. The only time… Read More »Hardware