Where Are The Wise Men?

Someone told me not long ago if I had ever tried XKeymacs and I had never heard of it. You can follow the link and read about it, but it’s a Windows app that remaps the keyboard to Emacs keys. IOW, if you do C-n, you go to the next line. C-k [...]

You can tell when a blogger has been busy when their blog isn’t being updated. Sorry. How about a little highly technical content?

I have a virual machine with Oracle 10g on it. Actually, it’s not Linux, it’s Windows because the Oracle install on Linux is a pain. Anyway, they will only [...]

I spent the weekend in Denver with Gina, Leah, Gina’s mom and sister. And we took a friend of ours with us to see her brother. While there, we saw Gina’s brother and his family and I think a good time was had by all. A few highlights:

While [...]

If you are an Emacs user and find yourself in Eclipse 3.1, do yourself a favor and follow these directions:

Goto Window-> Preferences
Choose General, then Keys underneath it
Choose the Modify Tab.  On the Scheme drop-down, choose Emacs

Now you can do C-p, C-k, etc. [...]

I was waiting for his father to announce it before I would. Aidan John is finally in the world. Congratulations to Kate and Jeremy!

All children are blessings, but Aidan seems a little more special because they had a few scares during the pregancy. But all that is forgotten now.

BTW, this [...]

When we moved into our house last summer, we knew that the dishwasher would be the first appliance to go. Not only was it old, but it didn’t wash very well. At all. Things were left on the plates that should have been washed off and none of our glasses shined. [...]

A useful message Weblogic 8.1 just gave me. I added the boldface:

Unable to read value from underlying bridge : null vmcid: SUN minor code: 211 completed: Maybe

Here is a problem that I have been having and I have just solved it via Ruby and REXML:

I have two GPX files that I use for geocaching — one contains all the caches that I want to find and another contains the ones I have already found. Keep track of your finds [...]

I noticed that my “all caches I may hope to find” file has grown tremendously since I starting putting Groundspeak’s info in (i.e. their tags in their namespace). I knew what was doing it — they put in all the logs in, which I don’t really care about. This morning, I was grabbing [...]

It’s high-time I got back to doing some Ruby, right?

I like Python’s ConfigParser and I decided to make my own for Ruby. Not because there isn’t any out there (I’m sure there is) but because I wanted to practice making a class, and a module, etc.

Well, it took me all of 30 minutes, most [...]