Where Are The Wise Men?

My brother-in-law Rick was lamenting the state of holiday church services. While there is nothing wrong with Christmas Eve or Easter Services in general, he said that they lacked what he called “grit” — realness, authenticity, and transparency. To give an example, Rick was asked to pick a version of the Christmas story [...]

How come I’ve never used zmv before?

$ touch “I have spaces” $ l total 0 -rw-r–r– 1 igen322 mkpasswd 0 Dec 21 15:16 I have spaces $ autoload -U zmv $ zmv ‘* ‘ ‘$f:gs/ /_’ $ l total 0 -rw-r–r– 1 igen322 mkpasswd 0 Dec 21 15:16 I_have_spaces $ touch Iis.pl $ zmv -W ‘.pl’ ‘*.txt’ $ l total 0 -rw-r–r– 1 igen322 mkpasswd 0 Dec 21 [...]

Herein lies several small things that I’ve been wanting to blog about, but have never gotten around to it, for some reason.

 I’ve been hanging out on the TheCDP blog for quite a few months. Mr. CDP is an hilarious writer.  Around Labor Day he asked for people willing to submit a [...]

I need some code that a co-worker is working on.  In an email to me, he said, “I completed it last week.”So I looked in the project and found nothing.  So I emailed him, “Can you tell me what package it is in?”The response? “I haven’t checked it in yet, because I haven’t written the [...]

I’ve been thinking off and on for a few month that using Spring inside of Jython would be a magical thing. You could just get a Spring ApplicationContext, call “getBean” and Jython (who doesn’t care what kind of object it is) would happily go on it’s way.  No importing a ton of object — just [...]

Okay, you read the subject, here is what I was thinking:

Spotlight is sloowww. At least for me. I only use QuickSilver to launch apps. It does lots of other cool things but, overall, I personally only use it for launching apps. Quicksilver takes a long time to appear. And crashes randomly. For no [...]

I wasn’t looking forward to shoveling the snow on Thursday night. It was already cold and dark when I got home, so that didn’t help. I was with alone with Leah, because Gina was working. I knew that Leah would want to “help” — which means that the job would take [...]

I was brought in on a new project last month.  Well, it was anew project for me — a couple of people had already been gathering requirements for four months and then spent three weeks writing some code (one “sprint”, in the terms of Agile Development).  One person is even the lead — they have [...]

I use Eclipse for my daily Java Coding.  It’s nice — it takes a lot of the stupid Java crap away from you and does it for you.  Or, at the very least, offer you it’s help in that regard.This week I’ve been using our corporate-approved BPM solution.  It supports putting Java code into it [...]

In case anyone outside of Omaha reads this, the Hostetler’s are fine.  Though we are a little shaken up by the the shooting as much as the rest of our fair city is.One thing that we did learn is that Omaha.com can’t handle a heavy, international load.  That should have been a given, since the [...]