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vim page folding
I have this notes file for one of my hobbies, and it has grown to over 400 lines. I like keeping everything all in one file, as it makes it easier to update. Being unable to have everything on screen at one time has made updating it slower. Enter vim folds, which let you hide and show parts of the text to work more like an outline. Since I ( Read more... ) -
What I learned today
I was watching JavaScript: The Good Parts, and learned that Javascript has a feature semicolon insertion. I didn't know that. -
from a friend
Paraphrased and shortened:
[we need these tickets fixed by monday, and it's friday 3:30PM] That will obviously require some weekend work.
It would seem that in the future we should plan a gap between testing and implementation to allow time to resolve issues found at nearly the last minute.
We have one. It's called the weekend and Monday. We' ( Read more... ) -
amusing quote
"It has become popular in recent years to think of computers as intelligence multipliers; but ancient computer science wisdom holds that computers are also stupidity multipliers." -
Linux Virtual Server (load balancer) patch: multiple local nodes
[warning: this post contains lots of technical details, not safe for use while operating heavy machinery]
Summary: I needed to distribute work to multiple local processes with a single IP:port target. I chose to modify the Linux Virtual Server module to support multiple local targets.
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recent adventures
For Thanksgiving, I drove down to see my parents and brother. We had a tasty meal with some friends of the family ( Read more... ) -
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Authentic Happiness - a peep trying to figure out how to make people happier using psychology. They require registration to take their online tests ( Read more... ) -
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I'm a big fan of the blog The Daily WTF. They cover all sorts of coding dysfunction from broken processes and bad management to badly written code. See: The Daily WTF: Effective Immediately