skeptomai"Don't try to use what you learn from Buddhism to be a Buddhist; use it to be a better whatever-you-already-are." <br> His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama.More useless trivia, this time about OmniGraffle and Subversion- September 23, 2006 Like all good Mac people, I do my diagramming in OmniGraffle. I just upgraded to the most recent Pro version and started creating new diagrams for a project at work. I went to check them into our Subversion repository and.......http://atbash.net/blog/archives/000133.html SBCL Unicode and locales- September 17, 2006 I've been playing with Unicode support in SBCL lately, so I keep an ear out on the mailing lists for gotchas. On comp.lang.lisp, SBCL+UFFI+MYSQL came up and here's the tidbit: Yay! That's it! When I ran this: (stream-external-format standard-output) I...http://atbash.net/blog/archives/000132.html If you aren't the expert, it's best to lead with a question- September 13, 2006 If you're the guy who says, "I'm the decider," you're not the decider. I appreciate Jon Carroll's take on the Bush administration and I realized yesterday it applies to software project leaders, along with a corollary: If you aren't the...http://atbash.net/blog/archives/000131.html When is "just good" good enough- September 4, 2006 Bear with me for a moment, because this won't make much sense at first. This morning I was helping my son put his toy race track away. You know, the kind with the long plastic strips and differently shaped connectors...http://atbash.net/blog/archives/000130.html Continued success with SBCL & SLIME- September 2, 2006 Ok, I figured out what was causing SLIME to "hang" with the recent sbcl patches for non-ASCII filenames. The default coding system was "iso-latin1-unix". Either changing the value of slime-net-coding-system in Emacs at SLIME startup, or changing its initialization in...http://atbash.net/blog/archives/000129.html Rebuilding libslack for OS X Intel- September 2, 2006 Not sure if my fix is really correct yet or not, but the source snapshot at libslack.org doesn't build without it. Here's the before and after: agent.c:1658: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘timercmp’ agent.c:1658: error: parse error before ‘<’ token...http://atbash.net/blog/archives/000128.html Recent advances with non-ascii filenames in SBCL- September 1, 2006 I've been doing some file-munging in Lisp lately, using sbcl on MacBook Intel. I have a number of artists & tracks with non-ASCII names and they give sbcl fits. Turns out filesys.lisp treats all the directory and file names as...http://atbash.net/blog/archives/000127.html Common Ruby Error- September 1, 2006 Have you ever seen the following "warning: Insecure world writable dir tmp, mode 041777" Here's the explanation from ruby-talk: That means you have world writable directory in your load path ($PATH) when you call external program (probably by using "system")....http://atbash.net/blog/archives/000126.html |