Underpants Gnome

So I realized that when I imported all my stuff to GitHub I spaced on setting the svn.authorsfile on a few. So I deleted and reimported them from svn.

If there’s a better way to fix that kind of thing, somebody let me know.

So this morning in the office we were discussing the hassle of swapping out host files based on whether we were in the office or on the outside. I said “You know if I wasn’t so lazy I’d write an AppleScript to do it for me when the network changed”.

This evening I went looking to see if somebody had already do it for me and I found this LocationChanger which was very close to what I wanted. But…

I didn’t want to be limited to only 2 locations (work and home) and I wanted it to be a little easier to manage what happened for each location. So I started with Onne’s code and ended up with Location Watcher.

Enjoy it. Comments and suggestions are always welcome.

So I’ve moved all the stuff that is currently hosted on svn.underpantsgnome.com to GitHub.

The stuff will continue to be accessible for a while, but I will not be posting any updates. In addition I will be setting the trac pages to redirect to GitHub shortly as well.

What’d I miss?? So I’ve been in a cave for a little over a year. I know, I know.

I was working for a company that had me doing things that really didn’t pertain to the real world so I didn’t have much to say.

Well, I’m back and working on some goodies. It sure feels good.

I’ll post updates as I have things worth sharing.

If you were a Twitter user and it all of a sudden tanks… It’s all my fault, I created a Twitter account.

Again, My apologies.

So I stumbled onto CruiseControl.rb a couple days ago, yeah I’ve been under a rock, very nice. I’ve already switched from continuous_builder plugin. Being able to browse the output of past builds is nice. I’ve also set it up to drop the rcov reports into the artifacts so they are easily viewable as well.

I also wrote a plugin to monitor your rcov coverage and if t falls outside of a specified range you get email. Yay, good ole public shaming.

More info on RcovNotifier

I turned HpricotScrub into a Gem so that it’s easier to use across projects.

You can find the RubyForge project here and the Trac is here

Most folks wont much care about these, but I’ve taken some code I found myself using in every project I worked on and made them plugins to make life a little easier.

The current plugins are GemTools (previously mentioned on the blog), Core Extensions and Config Reader. More info here.

So I stumbled onto Devalot, and I have to say I like what I see. This thing has the potential to kick some butt. I really like the blog aggregation to the front page. If they go the right direction with the source integration this thing will replace Trac and Wordpress on my stuff no problem.

I just wish I had more “free-time” to help out with it, new gigs tend to eat a lot of time.

So I’m not one to normally bitch about stuff like this in public, but this one kind of forced me to.

So I landed on digg.com while reading my feeds tonight and I see an ad up top for Rails jobs

so I figure I’ll see what’s up (no Burt, I’m not looking). I click through and decide to narrow down the search to Los Angeles and I get this:

Ok, it’s in Los Angeles, but the best I can gather the only thing it has to do with Rails is there may be train tracks close??

Finally got off my arse and upgraded the local wordpress installs to v2. Seems goood so far and Mo is happy so it must be good.

Hopefully I don’t see any of the issues that Om saw.

So this morning as I’m catching up on news and trying to wake up, Alexander is banging around in the living room playing with toys with the TV on in the background.

Something on PBS is on and in the show someone drops something and it breaks, to which Alexander comments “Oh, f–k”.

Not that any of this surprises me, it happens to be one of moms favorite words. The part that surprised me was he used it in the proper context, although f–k is a lot like dude, it’s hard to find a use for it where it’s not in context.