Sinatra, web apps, and a Ruby flock
I’ve been writing a web application in Ruby recently, in order to glue together a couple of fairly complicated systems into something approaching a sane workflow....
Sometimes ORM is not the answer
Earlier this week, I wrote some data pump code to move information between DB2 and Domino, filtering and cleaning it on the way....
Random cool hack: Make your Ruby scripts work as man pages
Via careful use of nroff directives and comments, it’s possible to make a Ruby script that works both as a command line utility you can run, and as a man page....
It's possible to be too helpful
I think this may be the best JavaScript error I’ve ever been given:...
JavaScript modulus weirdness
I just became aware of an interesting JavaScript ‘feature’....
Why TeX?
Recently someone on Stack Exchange asked Why are there no alternatives to TeX, or, why is TeX still used?...
Engines of TeXnology
Back in 1978, when the TeX project began, there were no scalable fonts....
Which TeX?
When I posted that I was going back to using TeX, I mentioned that TeX had changed a lot in 20 years, but didn’t really go into too many details....
Going back to something that works
Last week I had a bad experience with several pieces of office software....
Java: Call by reference, or call by value?
My attention was drawn to a trainwreck of a discussion on Reddit, which was triggered by another trainwreck of a discussion on an enterprise Java community web site....