Today I hacked up some scripts to update a Rails database based off of what is in a SQL Server database. The goal was to automate the export of some information from SQL, send it to a remote server, and then update the Rails database with the current information. Using Ruby’s CSV library made this [...]
Archive | March, 2006
Ion3 Window Manager — Hacking Journal [2006/03/26]
I spent this weekend setting up and playing with my Ubuntu install on my laptop. One of the major things I have changed is the window manager. I had used GNOME on it since the I first installed it but I took some time today to work with Ion and I am impressed. Ion is [...]
GTD with iPod Notes — Hacking Journal [2006/03/23]
I just recently moved back to using text files to keep track of my todo lists. I tried separating all my contexts into separate files but I noticed I spent too much time switching between the files. So I now joined them all into one large file, my large todo.txt. The only issue with that [...]
Play nice with others — Linux Tip #4
If you need to run a process that will take a lot of cpu resources and has to run for a long time, it is nice to run it using the program nice. In a nutshell, nice will run your process but allow it to be bumped by more important processes. For example if you [...]
IE and CSS — Hacking Journal [2006/03/15]
Today I finally took my Ruby on Rails website live for work. I spent the better part of my morning hacking on my CSS to get IE to render it properly. I used a template from Mollio that worked pretty good but I still had some bugs after I integrated it with my rhtml. Everything [...]
XGL Live CD — Hacking Journal [2006/03/14]
I had a chance to check out the XGL live CD put out by Kororaa. It booted up and ran perfectly on my desktop here, even with a flaky Nvidia Geforce 4 MX card on it. My first impressions were that it is really nice looking but some of the effects are a little over [...]
Kororaa live CD Mirror
I have the Kororaa live CD iso now hosted on my dropbox. Can’t wait to try it out on my systems. Newsforge Article Other Mirrors
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