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Fun with Maildir

over 5 years ago by Ben Bleything on bleything.blog(:stuff).
Many thanks to Mahlon Smith, years ago I switched my mail setup (from a complete disaster) to the loveliness that is: a Maildir mutt as an MUA...

Fun with metaprogramming

over 5 years ago by Ben Bleything on bleything.blog(:stuff).
Update: My apologies if you saw this post before now. There were a couple of copy/paste artifacts that snuck in and broke the code. I also realized that...

even more typo/hosting woes

over 5 years ago by Ben Bleything on bleything.blog(:stuff).
Sorry for the extended downtime this morning. I upgraded Typo to trunk (as I often do), but running the migrations caused Ruby to segfault. Hoorj! ...

Introducing George

almost 6 years ago by Ben Bleything on bleything.blog(:stuff).
Update: I’ve identified a bug that causes some addresses to not map correctly. It appears to be due to limits in the float column type on MySQL,...

Comment (and other) woes

almost 6 years ago by Ben Bleything on bleything.blog(:stuff).
Regular commenters (all four of you) have noticed that comments are fairly well borked on this blog right now. What it basically comes down to is “...

On The Rails 1.1.5 "fiasco"

almost 6 years ago by Ben Bleything on bleything.blog(:stuff).
Before you skip over this entry in disgust, let me summarize: I wish I knew more about the security hole that Rails 1.1.5 fixed, but I’m not all up...

Introducing Harmonize

almost 6 years ago by Ben Bleything on bleything.blog(:stuff).
Fair warning: this post is a combination of ranting, announcement, and self-promotion. Self-rannouncetion, if you will. At work, we have the common...

RubyConf 2006

almost 6 years ago by Ben Bleything on bleything.blog(:stuff).
Last night, thanks to a cleverly written script (by Dane Jensen, who still needs a working blog), I was able to get in on the ground floor and snatch up...

Minor Annoyances

almost 6 years ago by Ben Bleything on bleything.blog(:stuff).
I love Ruby. But as with peanut butter, Perl, and my girlfriend’s cat, even things that I love can annoy me. Here’s a good example from...

How I Learned Ruby

almost 6 years ago by Ben Bleything on bleything.blog(:stuff).
Both Ben Matasar and Jason Watkins tagged me for this meme, so here we go. What was your technical background before you started learning Ruby/Rails...