I ran across an issue that my google-foo has had some trouble handling. Maybe what I did is the only way to do it, in which case maybe this will help someone in need… but I rather like to think that someone here will have a much nicer solution. I use Subversion at most of…
Category: Ruby
Social Media, The Future of News, and Data Mining
I went to a very good panel discussion yesterday hosted by the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton University. There has been a conference going on there that covers a lot of the overlap between technology, law, and journalism, and the panel discussion yesterday, Data Mining, Visualization, and Interactivity was even more enlightening than…
Can’t find the Ruby Kool-aid
I picked up the Apress book about Ruby for Systems Administrators, because I plan on learning enough about Ruby to make it a viable tool that I can use if I have to use it at some point. I still plan on doing that, but in reviewing the first couple of chapters, I don’t think…
Vim messing up indentation on your pasted code?
I’ve had this issue forever. I want to paste in some code from somewhere else into a Vim session on some random box, but I have to remember to do “:set nocindent noautoindent nosmartindent noreallypleasedontindent” all the time. Well, I finally had some time to google for an actual solution to the issue (I knew…
Recovering deleted files from an svn repository
I know I’m going to forget how to do this, because I only ever need to do it once a year or something, so I’ll put it here for safe keeping: To recover a file from svn that you deleted from your local repository, it’s first necessary to get the proper name of the file,…
Freebase: Your database is ready!
This is going to be really frickin’ cool. There’s just no other way to put it. Maybe I’m a little too much of a data geek, because I can’t seem to sit still since receiving my email letting me know that Freebase is now in alpha, and the account I requested months ago can now…
Quick CVS Cheat Sheet
Actually, I’d love to say that I’ve moved completely to using git instead of CVS, but the truth of the matter is that, for a recent project where I’m just trying to consolidate a whole bunch of admin scripts, organize them under one (managed) roof, and (most importantly) get a bunch of admins on board…