I have been tweeting a lot lately at http://twitter.com/apretz . I think it will probably begin to replace this LJ, as I rarely make LJ posts more than three lines anyway. Actually I had been posting pretty infrequently long before I got on twitter ( Read more... )

dear ruby on rails:
stop utterly failing to work on my shared host running apache with no error messages at all when you work fine on both webbrick remotely and apache locally. this is why i say i would never use you in something important.

Also, why didn't anyone ever tell me about this? Goddamn.

i'm finally getting around to trying to fix my shit.

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http://alex.turnlav.net/blog/ also known as http://flurnl.alex.turnlav.net/ has received a minor overhaul. Most of the changes are cosmetic but it should be generally a bit nicer.
Todo this weekend: create a script to dump ( Read more... )

When writing software that involves a loop and can operate on a database, make sure you have stopped the loop from running before trying to reverse its effects in your database.

Wait and see.

Completely object oriented + functional = crazy weird calls on the return value of iterators. I fear it's utterly illegible though.
def has_category?(category) not categories.select do |cat| cat.cat_name == category end.empty? end It would look totally normal in lisp though (pseudocode)
(define (has-category? category categories ( Read more... )

So as maybe two of you might know, I log a lot of websites I find on my del.icio.us. For actually quite a while I have been marking the links I find that other people would like, and that I want to share, with a specific tag. Now that I'm hooking my lj up proper to my website, I'm going to link my del.icio.us up to my livejournal. This is where ( Read more... )