Posted on April 26th, 2008 under Code, Uber-techie.
I recently ditched Gentoo on my notebook for Xubuntu (Ubuntu with the XFCE windows manager), after a portage block removed my coreutils, rendering it pretty much useless. I’m still a big fan of Gentoo, but will likely be using it for servers and not desktops. I’ve recently been turned on to KDevelop for working on my Ruby on Rails projects. Although not as polished as Textmate for the Mac, I do find it a nice alternative. It has a nice class view, embedded console and IRB shell, a pretty nice “find in files”, and many other features. I’ve been a longtime Kate user, which happens to be the editor in KDevelop.
(KDevelop with the Class View on the left and console on the bottom)
But since switching to Xubuntu, starting up KDevelop was sluggish starting up. I also had “the process for the file protocol died unexpectedly” error (appearing twice). Since KDevelop is a KDE application, I knew it probably needed to KDE libraries for different file protocols, kioslaves. So although not a dependency (which it probably should be), installing the kio-locate package solved my problems.
$ sudo apt-get install kio-locate
Posted on October 12th, 2007 under Code, Perl, Uber-techie.
A recent Perl-based project called for some parallel processing. I naturally turned first to fork, which I have used successfully in the past. But this time, I needed to share information across the processes - they can’t just run in their isolated worlds. To do this, I had some options, including:
As the title of this article hints, I went with the last one.
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Posted on October 4th, 2007 under Code, Opinion.
If you have a moment, sign the petition at NoOOMLX.org. The group highlights some valid arguments, including the fact that the Microsoft-driven format does not even validate as XML. We really ought to continue to use the existing Open Document Format as seen in many existing applications like OpenOffice, Abiword KWord and GoogleDocs.
Posted on April 30th, 2007 under Client Work, Code, PHP.
We launched Tech Dispenser for Computerworld last week. It is based on bleeding-edge CakePHP - version 1.2.xxx. Coming off of a few Ruby Rails (RoR) projects, we found things we liked about Cake, and some things we didn’t. Here is a review with some of our recommendations you might be interested in when you start your next Cake-based project. This article would be especially useful for Rails developers working on a CakePHP project for the first time.
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