Category: computer

Here’s one of my favorite Perl-based one-liners which I whip out when I need to find a bunch of files and replace text based on regular expressions at the command line. find . -iname ‘*.js’ -exec perl -pi.bak -e ‘s/2006/2007/g’ {} \; This example first finds all JavaScript files (using a case-insensitive file extension) in…

Sometimes the pointy-haired manager just doesn’t “get” the wiki concept. Here’s something to email him/her.. The business benefit of a wiki is two-fold. First, project members and team have a single, common platform for managing documents which is easy to reference (in email, IMs etc), cross-platform, accessible, and perhaps most importantly, searchable. Second, it gives…

If your laptop has a fan on the bottom, don’t use it when you’re naked. Update: Stop looking at me like that. It’s never happened. Honest. 🙂

OpenRain.com uses Google Apps For Your Domain, and all email flows throw Google’s servers. Unfortunately, Rails 1.2.2 can’t send via smtp.google.com out of the box. As originally pointed out by Anatol Pomozov there is a solution. Here’s the simple version tested with Rails 1.2.2.

We have a natural desire to fix things. As engineers we find satisfaction in resolving technical problems and, if you’re following test-driven practices, keeping them resolved. These thoughts flow through our minds as the primitive keyboard-wielding code monkeys we evolved from. What distinguishes us from our fecal-flinging counterparts, however, is our ability to question these…