Monday, 7. September 2009, 17:33:55
scheme, chez, libraries, programming
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For those of you who have been patiently waiting for Descot's version 1 release, I'm happy to report that the code has been written, and is ready for release. However, it depends on some libraries that I don't feel comfortable releasing yet, so I am in the process of cleaning these libraries and releasing them in parts for the community first, and from thence shall come Descot version 1.
Monday, 7. September 2009, 17:32:15
school, celtic, dido, music
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At the start of a new semester, it always seems like there is more stress than ease going around. I switched from my usual metal and alternative mix for programming and moved into Celtic with a dash of Dido. I had forgotten how nice and calming it is. It helps sometimes to slow down and escape the details a bit when thinking of problems. Dido and soft Celtic are a great way to do that. Especially the slightly melancholy Siuil a Ruin.
Monday, 7. September 2009, 14:20:48
scheme, goscher, chez
Goscher version 0.3.1 is a release to fix a file extension type lookup bug in Goscher 0.3. This bug resulted in files without extensions being served with a type of 9 (Binary) instead of the correct 0 type (text).
Goscher continues to serve files of unknown type as binary files, but serves files without an extension by default as text.
It is always possible to override the type explicitly in an +INDEX file.
Goscher version 0.3 is the first release for the new prerelease of Chez Scheme. Additionally a very bad security hole has been fixed. Anyone using this server is suggested to upgrade immediately.
The package offerings have expanded to precompiled versions for both 64 and 32-bit threaded Linux. Other builds will arrive later, if needed.
Releases at my Gopher Server:
gopher.sacrideo.us.
Sunday, 30. August 2009, 22:01:53
humor, cars
Enter Wife and Me, she is practicing her driving. She has just left the highway and is entering the slower part of town. She slows for a stop light, but it turns green and she starts to go again.
Me: Okay, you're going to need to get out of fourth gear if you want to keep moving.
Engine begins heaving. She grabs the gearshift in a frantic gesture and yanks the gearshift knob off, where is proceeds to fly between the seats.
Wife: Aaaaaah!
Me: It's okay, just keep shifting, get down---
Wife: I can't! Wha?? Aaah! I need to pull over! I'm pulling over! [Me: There's no room here, just keep going.] I can't! Oh .... !
Pulls over with a clunk as the car nearly stalls.
Me: Hahahaha! It's okay. Alright---
Wife: You drive, I can't do this!
...
Me: (Holding the gearshift knob.) How did you manage to pull this off?!
Wife: ...
Me: Okay, well, we'll just put it on...there. See, it's fine. Now we just need to pull forward so that we can change---
Wife: No! I'll just crawl.
Wife (pregnant) climbs to the back seat like a cat up a tree.
Me: Okay...
Wife: (I am getting settled to drive out.) Um...wow, I didn't know there was a guardrail there; I almost hit it. I thought there were only bushes.
Me: Yeah.
Le Fin
Wednesday, 19. August 2009, 02:17:42
descot, mod_lisp, chez, scheme
As the looming deadline of the
2009 Scheme Workshop approaches, I am frantically trying to make
Descot ready for presentation. Right now, I have successfully ported and updated my latest libraries to work with the new
Chez prerelease, which makes most of the libraries relatively portable
R6RS libraries. I am currently in the processes of converting all of the Descot code to the new style, and making it work reliably and in distributable form. For the moment, only the SRDF library is ported, and most of the web application proper. Since I rewrote my
mod_lisp library because of licensing issues, it has taken me a little longer than i wanted to get this done.
i have about 1200 lines of code still to go through, but the rest should go fairly quickly once I get into the groove. I expect to have this all done tomorrow, and then move forward to bug fixes the day following, and have everything deployed the day after. We'll see how that goes.
Wednesday, 19. August 2009, 02:10:40
ram, tech, lenovo
I added new RAM to my computer today. It is amazing how affordable 2GB of RAM is these days, and at pretty fast speeds, too. The installation was easy, and I have to admit that I really like my Lenovo T500.
On the other hand, it is sad that I need this additional RAM in order to run Windows in a Virtual Machine for the next school year. Supporting so many Operating Systems is quite a pain.
Monday, 3. August 2009, 23:39:14
acme, ide, editor, tech
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I have been toying around with the
Acme editor of late from
Plan9port. I have found it to be an efficient tool, and I have succeeded in using it as my primary editor for nearly everything. However, using it as an external editor to other programs requires a bit of special magic.
P9P provides a script E which uses B which uses plumber which uses the p9server to communicate to Acme. By setting E as your EDITOR variable to use acme (or sam, if you prefer) as an external editor for applications like mutt, pine, or your favorite IDE. This is very convenient.
Just remember that E will quit right after it detects that the file has been modified, meaning that you can only save your file once.
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