Ruby has a neat feature called at_exit which takes a block and then executes the contents of this block when the program ends. There are a couple of VERY important details:

1. It takes a block and converts it into a Proc object at the time of parsing. This means that the data has to be available in the binding, or you’ll run into errors. Example: ( Read more... )

The Art of Agile Planning (#aoap on Twitter, and AOAP from now on) is a 2-day course. The focus is on understanding the higher-level constructs of Agile and how they imbricate. In the course, one learns how the ideal Agile team is composed (hint: it’s cross-functional and co-located) and what practices and techniques will be used to organize at all ( Read more... )

If Revolutionary 0.4pre4 -
Use WINDOWS! Broken on Linux.
Follow this process: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1219246

revolution, for me, said “oh sure, I’ll install CWM for you” and rebooted to Fastboot USB but did NOT actually install it. So ( Read more... )

I have a Droid Incredible 2 - and I’m really enjoying it. I got an OTA update to 2.3 right about the time I was going to root it, so I thought, what the heck, I’ll get Gingerbread. It’s all I really wanted anyway.

Last week, at some point, the clock app disappeared. I noticed because the alarm stopped ringing. It didn’t really bother me, because ( Read more... )

You can use xargs to grep the same word through different files. But how do you use xargs to grep different words through the same file?
Like this:

echo “your fancy word finder stuff here” | xargs -i bash -c ‘grep -n “{}” your/file/here’

Not something that’s useful every day, but when you want it, hot damn is it nice to have.

Send to:

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So, you can’t install gettext?
Here’s a hack to get you past it.
do your
$ emerge -oneshot gettext

When it’s all unpacked, Ctrl+z (this will pause the job), go to the work directory, something like this:
/Users/you/Gentoo/var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/gettext-0.18.1.1-r2/work/gettext-0.18.1.1

From there, go in here:
cd gettext-tools/gnulib-lib
and in ( Read more... )

I flew overnight from Vancouver to be with you today. I landed in New York a few hours ago and caught a flight down here because I needed to tell you all in person that I think you’re awesome.
I was raised by a teacher. My mother is a professor of early childhood education. And from the time I went to kindergarten through my senior year in high ( Read more... )

Une pierre
deux maisons
trois ruines
quatre fossoyeurs
un jardin
des fleurs

et un raton laveur

une douzaine d’huitres un citron un pain
un rayon de soleil
une lame de fond
six musiciens
une porte avec son paillasson
un monsieur décoré de la légion d’honneur

et un autre raton laveur

un sculpteur qui sculpte des Napoléon
la fleur qu’on appelle souci
( Read more... )

Tryo - Le Petit Chose (The Little Something ( Read more... )

On mornings when I can sleep in, it's not unusual for me to alternate between sleep and wake, usually because I like my dream. This Saturday fit the pattern - I had a nice dream about a girl I've known for a few years. I've sort of asked her out and it's been sort of delayed (I didn't get a feeling of rejection, anyway). Saturday morning's dream ( Read more... )