nice marmot
While this would have been better posted to bash, I present a snippet from Triple-Em himself regarding an inadequacy in the standard I/O libraries available to him:
1:37:20 PM Matthew Miller: Think I’m going to write an RFC with the suggestion that we extend the standard 4 option I/O error handling directives — Abort, Retry, Fail, [...]
Word of The Day: Pile
Pile
n. pahyl
a collection of objects laid on top of each other
What happens when something is so utterly terrible that it’s heaped into a mound of failure, resembling nothing so much as a collection of animal shit, which you’ve probably just stepped in.
Example: The kerfuffle over this subdomain and it’s associated implications for the document root [...]
Yehuda Katz finds culinary religion!
In his post titled “Delicious Food“, Yehuda Katz (of Ruby community fame or infamy, depending on your point of view) discusses his recent branching out into a life of truly considering his diet.
While this is only one incident, I hope it portents a seachange. I find that more and more the Powers That Be are [...]
Text editing for fun and profit
I’ve begun attempting to streamline the process of maintaining the scripts and config files that I have to touch day to day as part of both my job and my hobby. I’ve basically used TextMate for everything, which I’ve previously discussed (particularly it’s use in conjunction with CSSEdit, which we’ll come back to). But this [...]
A broken upgrade? NO! NEVER! (hardly ever…)
HELLO TO THE GOOGLERS DROPPING IN REGARDING WP-CONTENT!
If you’ve stopped in, this pertains mostly to the use of automatic updates over SSH2 not working for me in WordPress 2.8. If you’re not experiencing this problem, I don’t think this write-up will be of much help. But feel free to stick around a while. We’ve got [...]