Monthly Archives: January 2009

New Toys

Posted on January 31, 2009 by matthew

Make friendly URLs easy with stapler Make library management hell less hellish with ivy (2.0 was just released) ACEGI is now “Spring Security,” whose new version purports lighter configuration requirements than previously. iBATIS Pipe Viewer (pv) — gives you a … Continue reading →

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Randomly sort the lines in a file

Posted on January 31, 2009 by matthew

There are times when you need to randomly order the lines in a file. Here’s a script to do just that: #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; use List::Util 'shuffle'; my @lines = <>; print shuffle( @lines );

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Quick MacPorts Installation of Ruby on Rails

Posted on January 24, 2009 by matthew

I finally got to walking through a great gentle introductory ALA article on Ruby on Rails. I wanted to run rails Demo to build my first project, but I got nastiness: $ rails -v /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:379:in `report_activate_error’: RubyGem version error: rake(0.7.3 … Continue reading →

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Great Frank Lloyd Quote

Posted on January 17, 2009 by matthew

An architect’s most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board and a wrecking ball at the site. Software isn’t nearly as hard to refactor as studs, drywall, and joists, but it’s still cheaper and faster to start only … Continue reading →

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