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Bashing tcsh

~1 month ago by Jim aka selequa on geek!daily.
After 15 years of non-stop tcsh action, I've finally made the jump to bash. It was painful and I miss all my lovely variable expansion (^X $), wildcard...

Advanced YAML: Tricking Out Your database.yml

almost 2 years ago by Jim aka selequa on geek!daily.
I've been cultishly carrying this snippet around for years: login: &login adapter: mysql host: localhost username: myuser password: mypass encoding...

Live Blog: Comet & Other Browser Stuff

over 2 years ago by Jim aka selequa on geek!daily.
It's a big component of what we call "real-time" This is the kind of stuff that puts up a banner on a Twitter search ("# New Tweets Found") and makes things...

Live Blog: Web Aggregation, What Works and What Doesn't

over 2 years ago by Jim aka selequa on geek!daily.
[note: I originally scribbled this on paper thinking I could hand it off immediately, preventing the obligation of typing, posting, etc. Turns out I don...

Stepping Into BDD with Cucumber and WebRAT: Structuring the Work

over 2 years ago by Jim aka selequa on geek!daily.
This is the first of a series on my adventures in going BDD with Cucumber and WebRAT with a greenfield project. Watch for the next article coming soon....

Generate the regex for a TLD hostname from Perl

almost 3 years ago by Jim aka selequa on geek!daily.
This was a quick, fun exercise to remind me that I can still write Perl. It fetches the list of TLDs from IANA, does a quick bit of munging, then renders...

Gmail no longer beta? True dat.

almost 3 years ago by Jim aka selequa on geek!daily.
I guess it's no longer under construction, or so sayeth the GMail blog which also shows those who can't live without that ubiquitous beta tag how to bring...

Michael Jackson's Obit via Wordle

almost 3 years ago by Jim aka selequa on geek!daily.
Story by Yahoo!, picture by Wordle.net:...

LiveBlog: 10 Deploys A Day: Dev and Ops at Flickr

almost 3 years ago by Jim aka selequa on geek!daily.
Update 1: Slides are now on SlideShare. Update 2: Video now available on blip.tv John Allspaw (Ops) & Paul Hammond (Eng), Twitter “Actually work together...

LiveBlog: Q&A with Twitter's John Adams

almost 3 years ago by Jim aka selequa on geek!daily.
A short pre-lunch session to absorb a few moment: John Adams (Twitter) Q&A Q: How do you log all the info from your APIs? A: syslog, looking at scribe...