It never really bothered me when companies use open source software and implement an “Open Core” business model around the software that they give for free (both as in freedom and beer). After all, I’m a capitalist as well (I also love my cash). This is the prime reason why I side with the open […]
Everyone in this country should learn POSIX shell :3
Well I have to eat humble pie regarding my last rant on Ruby’s lack of decent exit status shell method. It turns out Ruby has a far more sophisticated method of accomplish this, which somewhat blows out both PHP and Python out of the water. The answer lies with the Process core module, in particular […]
It’s been a while since my last Ruby rant, but I have another one that I have to take off my shoulders. This time is the lack of a standard approach to run a system command and grab it exit status. Simple, right? Not in Ruby, while Ruby provides an API to interact with the […]
As always I’m pretty late in writing my book reviews. This time it’s been well over 6 months since I finished reading the book “Beginning Ruby” (first edition) by Peter Cooper. I have to say is this by far the best Ruby book that I’ve read so far. (This is out of a 13 book […]
After much nights of Ruby programming and many revisions, I finally manage to have an beta release of Ruby cli_mailer. I originally planned on writing a full mail (Unix command line email client) like program in Ruby. Though I was able to have an almost identical console interface to mail’s reading, viewing, and deleting emails, […]
RDoc makes documenting Ruby scripts be really simple. RDoc is fairly simple to use, as it has a straight forward SimpleMarkup syntax which the RDoc utility uses to traverse the entire Ruby script and automatically generate pretty html documentation pages. Now I have documentation for the dead simple Ruby script that I wrote to encode […]
While reading the regex portion of Apress’s Beginning Perl Second Edition by James Lee, the following sample code totally made my day. #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; $_ = “There are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX”; s/(\w+)\s+(\w+)/$2 $1/; $_ = ucfirst($_); print $_, “?\n”;
It’s been three years since this blog came into existence and it doesn’t look like I’ll be posting any meaningful or relevant content to it anytime soon.
I may not be a perl ninja (just yet) but the domain name kicks ass. perlninja.pl