The Rails Rumble 2007 programming contest is now accepting votes for the best applications. My entry is called Whats your habit? and is a web program designed to help people easily track their habits. Please go and vote at the Rails Rumble Voting site and leave your comments here. My goal with the program was …
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Rails Rumble – September 8-9
Rails Rumble, a Ruby on Rails programming contest, has been officially announced. Basically it is a groups of 1-4 people who are given 48 hours to build and deploy a Ruby on Rails application.
Learning Common Lisp and My Email Server
It is now the first Monday after I spent a weekend learning Lisp from Practical Common Lisp and I am in awe. I don’t know if it is me but I just feel like I ‘like’ lisp, it is so simple (although I don’t know most of the functions that are being called). The Slime …
Patch Some Code – Linux Tip
As you use a Linux computer you will run into a time or two where you will need to build a program from it’s source code. Sometimes this code will need to be patched to add some functionality you want, to fix a bug, or even to add in your personal touches. Linux comes with …
Check Your Services with Ruby
I just got my Pickaxe v2 book in the mail today and have already put it to good use writing a script to check that the services for a host are up and responding. It uses many of the libraries included with Ruby but also another library ‘net-ping’ which you can get with a gem …