Unoriginal, I know. That's how I'm feeling right now. That's why *you* should register your opinions. Come, bring a friend, bring a newbie, bring your dog. Hal...
Hi, I dug up a reference to the screen capture tool I mentioned at lunch: http://recordmydesktop.iovar.org/ If I come up with a sample project to record, I'll...
I saw the discussion on Phil's Icehouse today, so I updated Luncherator for those not on the IRC channel. I may actually make it today, depending on how long a...
Greetings The time is at hand to get LSRC back in gear for the Sep 4-6, 2008 conference. The first item on the menu is to send out a call for papers. This year...
Hello We have quite a bit of interest in seeing that LSRC 2008 is a big success! Thanks for responding. The LSRC 2008 Kickoff meeting is scheduled for Thu, Mar...
Jim's planning the LSRC planning dinner tonight (see previous emails), and we'll also be getting together with DJames and TPope as they'll be in town for the...
Registration is now open for the 2008 Open Source Symposium<http://www.texasoss.org/>! Thanks to the generosity of our sponsors, attendance will be free!...
This is at 6640 Hwy 290 E (not West!!). Let's do south-ish next week... someone else pick. As always: Bring a friend, bring a newbie, bring a COBOL programmer,...
Luncherator updated, had to go find the location :) http://www.luncherator.com/ Luncherator is about to have a code rev, much more functionality in setting the...
Hi there -- I've recently been brainwashed into Ruby, rather forcefully, so I figured I may as well join the local UG. I'm not a Rails person (yet?) -- I've...
... There are a number of good places at the Triangle. I recommend Sago as a good place to eat. Mandolas is also very good Italian food. Flying Saucer has...
... Oh, I don't think I can avoid talking to the AHA! hooligans at this point. :) Thanks for the pointers. Honestly, though, it looks like Pcaprub is about as...
Someone asked for "south" this time... but today is Matt Lawrence's last day with us. (He's moving to College Station for a job -- temporarily I hope.) Lunch...
So a shorthand for creating an array is: irb(main):209:0> arr = %w{foo bar baz} => ["foo", "bar", "baz"] What is the "%w{}" construct (similar to perl's qw())...
It's called the "Generalized Delimited Syntax." The "%w" is I think a "type character" (which is always a "percent" plus an optional "literal"), and the {}'s...