Sacrificial Rabbit - Comments

JK: Emacs and UTF-8 Encoding

nospam@example.com (JK) — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 00:42:13 -0800

Thank you, works fine for me in Debian inside gnome-terminal:
$ LC_ALL=cs_CZ.utf8 gnome-terminal -x emacs -nw FILE
Note also that this line (working with old linux distributions) should NOT be present in .emacs:
(standard-display-european t) ;; WRONG
JK

bunnycuddle: More ASCII Bunnies.

nospam@example.com (bunnycuddle) — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 09:52:00 -0800

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Heather: More ASCII Bunnies.

nospam@example.com (Heather) — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 12:34:00 -0800

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Anonymous: More ASCII Bunnies.

nospam@example.com () — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 06:59:40 -0700

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Anonymous: More ASCII Bunnies.

nospam@example.com () — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 11:44:39 -0700

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Andrew Taylor: Cruise Control and Ant: OMG, XML DSLs... WTF?

nospam@example.com (Andrew Taylor) — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:20:50 -0800

I'm using callouts to java code to do the more complex things. ie

[java classname="org.benow.web.ResourceUtility"]
      [classpath refid="compile.classpath"/]
    [/java]

I am using ant for compilation, but only after the fact. Eclipse does everything during development. I also tend to do more things at runtime, rather than relying on building caches during compile time... ie lists of what files are where, what mappings are available, etc. This makes for a slower initial startup, but also means that there is nothing to get out of sync... new code changes are immediately seen, and the build scripts don't have to worry about doing the generation. This reduces the complexity of ant.

I see a similar problem with XSL. It's nice to have a language that manipulates XML well, but logical constructs (if then case variables, etc) are too verbose and difficult to work with. With XSL you can't even change a variable once it's been set... wtf. I still use it, tho, as it works well with XML.

Greg Pfeil: Cruise Control and Ant: OMG, XML DSLs... WTF?

nospam@example.com (Greg Pfeil) — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 06:56:13 -0800

Ant is indeed a failure, as the author (James Duncan Davidson) admits. He has moved on to using rake, which is (as you surmise) an extension of a commonly-used general-purpose language. Ruby in this case.

I think the problem is that there's no way to extend the Java syntax to allow there to be a 'jake'. And Ant is probably at least better than make.

bret carr: Debugging your brain. Hacking the bad decisions and judgements of your brain.

nospam@example.com (bret carr) — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 15:04:25 -0700

Jonnay, you'll like this
http://www.debugyourbrain.com

Bob: Comments are (no longer) wonky.

nospam@example.com (Bob) — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 04:19:04 -0700

Are comments are working?

njl: More ASCII Bunnies.

nospam@example.com (njl) — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 20:32:49 -0700

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A telemarketer: Harassing Telemarketers

nospam@example.com (A telemarketer) — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 15:32:42 -0700

Stumbled across your blog/post very randomly while searching 'harassing telemarketers' at my job (drum roll please...as a telemarketer) ANYWAY, DON'T harass telemarketers. Not because I am one or even because I condone this, BUT, if you catch an irate one on a bad day, god help you. Typically when we call we have every bit of information about you save for your social security number. To sum it up, we know where you live when we call you. Catch one teetering on the edge of sanity and it will only mean bad news for you in the long run.

Jonathan: Automated Web Developer Tests using Selenium, Emacs, and MozRepl

nospam@example.com (Jonathan) — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 08:34:46 -0700

Okay, that's cool emacs-ness. It definitely seems like there is more integration for programming tasks in emacs than in vi, I admit it :)

Kirstin: Calgary Transit and Interface Design

nospam@example.com (Kirstin) — Tue, 01 May 2007 10:55:40 -0700

Everything you said is absolutely right. You ennumerated exactly how I felt about each of the good points of the original design versus all the bad things about the new design.

Sadly, I believe the Java clock they use is based on my computer's time--which is sadly off. I'd check that, but I'm at work and my poor Mac G3 takes a year and a day to load a Java applet.

I sent CT an e-mail when they changed the site, but they didn't respond and they certainly didn't make any improvements.

Jonnay: Why status messages are important and how it will change your life: twitterific!

nospam@example.com (Jonnay) — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 22:30:33 -0700

Heh, I am trying to sell twitter, so I don't want to over promise. You're right though, answers come in the matter of mins, rather then hours.

I really need to expound on the SMS aspect more. While not 100%, it really does increase the value of twitter.

Greg Pfeil: Why status messages are important and how it will change your life: twitterific!

nospam@example.com (Greg Pfeil) — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 22:19:16 -0700

"General questions can be posted via twitters, and answered in a matter of hours"

Hours? Man, I feel like people respond more quickly to my twitters than to my IMs. I forget how instatneous Twitter is, and then someone sends me a message that makes me think they're reading my mind.