Category Archives: Technology
Technology in the dark ages
Computers can do so much these days, or can they? Some things are just too hard to set up for the basic need they address. I spent a significant chunk of this evening configuring my laptop to use my GPRS … Continue reading
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Back In Print
My article on Ruby/Amazon has finally made it into print in the February issue of Dr Dobb’s Journal. This is my first published work for a computer magazine in just under ten years. It’s hard to imagine it was that … Continue reading
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Comment spam killing MT weblogs?
Slashdot has an article on how comment spammers are killing Movable Type blogs by introducing high load on servers. The report turns out to be talking about a bug in MT 3.x, whereby the server gets put under high load … Continue reading
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ruby-ldap controls patch
I’ve put out a series of patches to ruby-ldap 0.8.3 to allow the easy use of controls. Controls take advantage of the extensible nature of LDAPv3 to provide functionality not part of the original protocol specification. < p> Specifically, I … Continue reading
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Tired
I didn’t get enough sleep last night. (Note to self: try to avoid sounding like the person at work who blames all of his mistakes on lack of sleep and excessive devotion to the cause.) Jules, Geoff and I went … Continue reading
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