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EngineYard takes over the JRuby team

Wow, EngineYard is really stepping up! Have to wonder though what’s going on at Sun, is the whole thing now imploding?! Crazy!

Scala scripting continued

It took a day or two of blog reading and scala console try outs but I managed to create my first usable Scala script.

import scala.xml._

/**
Sequence number fix script. See http://fugamusic.com/docs/ingestion/ingestion.xsd
**/

object FixSequence {
var seq: List[Pair[Int,Int]] = List()
var working_vol = 0

def main(args: Array[String]) {
val pp = new PrettyPrinter(80, 2)
val fuga = XML.loadFile(args(0))(0)
loadSeq(fuga)
println(pp.format(fixSeq(fuga)))
}

def loadSeq(xml: Node) {
for [...]

First stab at Scala scripting.. filters do not work like my Ruby brain thinks they do

So I decided to pick up the Scala language. Having done Ruby for a couple of years now Scala is one of the few, if not the only language that’s gotten me excited. Being a first class citizen on the JVM has many advantages and I’m really liking LiftWeb.

I also suspect I’ll be doing a [...]

Installing new Ruby postgresql adapter on Leopard

I need to fix a project which uses PostgreSQL. On a fresh Leopard install with postgresql 8.3 installed from ports I ran into this problem:

$ sudo gem install pg
Building native extensions. This could take a while…
ERROR: Error installing ruby-pg:
ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

The solution is quite simply. Just make sure pg_config can be [...]

Suriname

Currently enjoying some vacation in Suriname.

Update: and back again (2009-03-06)

Typo -> Mephisto -> Wordpress

First I tried Typo, then Mephisto and now this blog is running Wordpress. As a Ruby fan I really wanted to use Ruby everywhere, 2 years ago. I’m now at the point where I just want working stuff (kids will do that to you I guess). The migration from Mephisto to Wordpress was very very [...]

Passenger with RACK apps

I started converting various apps running on mongrel clusters over to Apache + Passenger. One component of our production system is implemented as as mongrel plugin so it kind of sucks tot keep mongrel around just for this part. The reason I’m looking to abandon mongrel is because it requires all sorts of crappy monitoring [...]

Sold!

We sold our apartment a few weeks before the credit crunch hit hard, phew! We already purchased a new house (new construction) last year. Last week we had to move out of apartment. Unfortunately the new house is not yet finished. Well it is, but the utility companies still need to their stuff and the [...]

Getting rid of KPN

So, we moved and I canceled all our subscriptions at the old address. So I thought, it turns out KPN has /dev/null’d my cancellation request for the fixed line twice in a row. Each time customer relations assured me it would take 5 working days for the request to be processed. I just called them [...]

Moving in 3 weeks!

Earlier in the year we sold our appartement and bought a new house. With 2 kids it was simply not fun anymore in our cosy appartement on the 4th floor. We won’t get the keys of our new house, which is in the final stages of construction, for another month or two. In the [...]

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