Category Archives: Technology

Ruby/LDAP 0.9.3

I have just released Ruby/LDAP 0.9.3. This is mostly a bug-fix release. The changes from 0.9.2 are listed below: LDAP::Schema#names and LDAP::Schema#attr will now allow names with hyphens and/or underscores. A warning about @sasl_quiet when run in debug mode has … Continue reading

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In Camera

Sarah went out this morning to her first La Leche League meeting (you should blog about that, Sarah), so I seized the opportunity to upgrade Gallery from version 1.5.2-pl2 to 2.1rc1. The new version has lots of nice new features, … Continue reading

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Ruby/Google 0.6.0 released

I promised I’d return to coding and here’s the first fruit of my labours, a new version of Ruby/Google. Version 0.6.0 adds a new method, Search#utf8(src). If src is not nil, query strings used by the Search#search and Search#spell methods … Continue reading

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Reopening For Business Soon

The last six months, I’ve been enjoying (well, mostly) an extended break away from pretty much anything to do with computers. I’ve read my e-mail and done plenty of on-line reading, but all geek activities were halted and any resemblance … Continue reading

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The Rise Of The Office

The time has finally come to resurrect my old office from Mountain View. I put my desk together Monday evening and then set about unpacking my computers and turning them back on after nigh on six months of disuse. My … Continue reading

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