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, [...]

Posted at 5pm on 6/18/09 | no comments; | Filed Under: friends, technical | Tagged: aim, Matt Miller, quickie | read on

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 [...]

Posted at 5pm on 6/18/09 | no comments; | Filed Under: word of the day | read on

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 [...]

Posted at 5pm on 6/18/09 | no comments; | Filed Under: culinary, opinion and libel | read on

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 [...]

Posted at 1pm on 6/15/09 | 1 comment | Filed Under: applications, editors, mac | Tagged: applications, coda, comparison, editors, espresso, macrabbit, macromates, panic, textmate | read on

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 [...]

Posted at 11pm on 6/14/09 | no comments; | Filed Under: php, site meta | read on

About

I am a surly and opinionated web infrastructure administrator who moved to Massachusetts to work for a mid-sized engineering software company. It was a strategic decision.

I’m a strategic kind of guy. See?
Before moving to Massachusetts I lived in Albany, NY. By lived, I mean “lived my whole life there”.
My principle interests are technology, specifically web [...]

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