Since I use all Apple Mac OS X as my primary desktop operating system of choice, I wrote a ruby script ago that mimics the GNU/Linux watch command on OS X a couple of months ago (watch.rb). Little that I knew that the watch package is available within MacPorts. In short MacPorts is an free […]
I finally finished reading my first book on Ruby programming. Ruby: Visual QuickStart Guide, by Larry Ullman has to be the perfect introduction book for anyone trying to learn the Ruby programming language, even though sadly it only has 3 five star reviews on Amazon. The author writing thoroughly explains the concepts in a friendly […]
By default Linux systems do not ship with the mcrypt utility. At least not CentOS or Ubuntu that is. In Ubuntu installing mycrypt is just a matter of running the following command: apt-get install mcrypt In CentOS 5.5 mycrypt is not included in the distribution’s repositories because when I ran yum install mcrypt it installed […]