The official name is the “Families Striding to Help Families 5K Walk”. It was held on Saturday, October 22nd, amid clear, but crisp weather. I walked with my son, David. Or, I walked and he was carried on my shoulders for about 90% of it. David isn’t much of a walker […]
I have a new love.
It started when Zoran instituted a new corporate firewall policy. Over the course of a weekend, all FTP uploads and SSH/telnet sessions were cut off, snapping my ability to do personal web site maintenance off at the knees.
It was most annoying.
However, my laptop computer is capable of attaching to wireless […]
DEVX Testbed
More web services are up and running. The dice rollers and the card shuffler (string shuffler, actually) are up and running. The test bed web page uses a plethora of technologies and buzzwords: Javascript, DHTML, AJAX, XML, Ruby, XmlCGI. Amazingly, the alphabet soup all works and works quite well.
My wife and I are trying to decide how best to fix the cable television problem. The plan that we’ve worked out will be for me to run new cable myself.
To do this, I will run the cable outside the house along the sill, or underground, using conduit to protect the cable from the […]
Last night, I got the SemaphoreManager working properly. It took over an hour and a half to do it properly b/c of inadequate documentation and examples in the “pickaxe” book and on the Web. First, the problem.
SemaphoreManager is a Ruby-level API that uses my sysv_semaphore extension for the low-level stuff. On error, […]
My apologies for the overly done title. I didn’t know what to write and figured I’d just throw something out.
The hiking trip up Mount Washington planned for tomorrow has been postponed due to the weather, to whit, tropical storm Tammy. To say that I’m disappointed is an understatement. I had planned a […]
I am talking here about the cgi.rb class that comes with the standard Ruby distribution. It is awful.
Now, if you’re a newbie who wants to get very simple CGI scripts up and running, then there’s no problem, because every piece of documentation or article that I’ve seen talks about handling form data uploads and/or […]
On October 6th, 1993, 12 years ago today, my friend, Gary Lawson, was killed by a train.
He doesn’t haunt me as much as he used to. Time heals all wounds, as the old adage goes. We’ve both moved on, perhaps found our peace with the harsh realities of life and death. Still, […]
I’m speaking of the scripting language, of course. It is an absolute pleasure to code in.
I’m almost done with the rewrite/port of my Perl-based randomizer web services. The Perl version had to use a C-compiled program to fill the bit pool files. Now, that code is a Ruby extension, complete with catchable […]