Ruby versus Python versus …

It’s been some years since I got off the Java bandwagon. I spent many years on it. and after getting off, it feels like I was in a concentration camp for many years. Strangely, I loved it then. But the freedom from drudgery, great to begin wit,h has left me hanging in mid-air for these [...]

Really getting started with the New Blogger Beta using Java

So yesterday I found that mtsend.py does not publish with Googles New Blogger. Why I need that facility is not that ECTO has anything lacking, but I DO have some diaries to load which have several hundred pages.
I have uploaded them as bare HTML’s through FTP, but would like to publish them on Blogger. So [...]

Using HTML/XHTML Editing in Vim

This is just SOOOOO mind-blowing. How could anyone edit HTML in anything other than VIM once they get their hands around this … HTML.vim.
One quick glance at the above document will convince you that Vim IS the text-editor to use for HTML’ing.
while (<>) {
// OOOOH ! see how they convert characters like \ to their [...]

testing vim macros with blogger

gentlemen. Now is the time to rise, er raise your mineral water glasses. We can finally breathe !!!
We can finally edit our blogs in Vim, and publish them from within Vim at a keystroke. What is more we can write scripts in other languages and easily interface them with Vim. What is more, content written [...]

testing mtsend.py -1

This is test of mtsend.py. it allows me to send in some text formatted in vim. But i don’t know whether it handles unicode data. Because I got an error when I tried to retrieve an earlier post:
Error: ‘ascii’ codec can’t encode character you’\u2014′ in
position 72: ordinal not in range(128)

BTW, the AUTHOR field is not [...]

testing mtsend.py

This is the body of the post. Let us hope it works out well.
This means i cannot really plug in an html file directly. my html code in here could confuse the program.

Interesting Stuff

Finished The Northern Lights by Phillip Pullman at 3am — enjoyed thoroughly. Also, found some great stuff last night:

Maruku — ruby implementation of multi-markdown which is very powerful
Multimarkdown — quite unbelievable!
php Markdown Extra — php port of Multimarkdown
rb-appscript — psst, here’s a secret. I was never smart enough to learn Apple Script, this is praps [...]

Dolby and Sheru revisited

On May 25th, 2006, i spent 3 hours digging up the graves where we had laid beloved Sheru and Dolby to rest. The bones were still there. The skulls looked identical. We could not figure out which was which, which is I think how it should be.
On May 26th, I took the bones and earth [...]

Old Stuff

Oct, 2005
Mediawiki and Textile are great!
Have been exploring Ruby on Rails. Looks promising. Certainly beats the crap outof doing web apps with JSP, Struts and J2EE.
You might see me doing something with ROR.
At long last, the fine folks at Apple have released J2SE 1.5 for MAC OS X 10.4. I wrote a program to [...]

Very old stuff

April 2004
Got me a new Mac OS X Powerbook. It has a great GUI and a fine open-source Unix running on it (GNU-Darwin). The best of both worlds. It uses the Debian like apt-get package manager, a breath of fresh air after suffering abuse from Redhat’s RPM for several years.
While GNU Darwin [...]