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Working on the spec for SPBS

I’ve been working on the spec for SPBS — it’s slow going, as my real job has been taking most of my focus. But I realized that in designing the templating system for the blog, I’m actually designing a domain-specific mini-language. I think I’m going to reread that chapter of The Art of Unix Programming.
But [...]

Posted 08 February 2008 † schof § SPBS ‡ Comments (0)

Announcing The Launch Of SPBS — the Simplest Possible Blogging System

And by “Launch,” I mean “I’m starting to write it.” There’s a long way between that and a completed program. But you can check my progress at SPBS’ Google Code site: http://code.google.com/p/spbs/
I’ve written an introduction to SPBS, and the reasons I’m writing it here, at http://code.google.com/p/spbs/wiki/SPBSIntroduction

Posted 07 February 2008 † schof § CSS § Computers § John Mark Schofield Meta § Linux § Subversion § Web § Web Hosting § security ‡ Comments (0)

Google FTW: Fixing Arrow Problems in OS X Python

I lived with it for ages. I tried to fix it on my own, by selecting different emulation types. Finally I Googled for it. And pretty much instantly found the answer:
python `python -c “import pimp; print pimp.__file__”` -i readline
Moral? If at first you don’t succeed, Google. If Google fails, try, try again.
Update: And to [...]

Posted 15 November 2007 † schof § Broken § Programming § Web ‡ Comments (0)

My Workflow: TextMate, Subversion, and Python

I’m focusing in on some very important parts of my workflow. Version control is Subversion. I’m most of the way through the book on it.
Text editing is TextMate. I was trying to use vim, because it’s one editor I can use both on my OS X desktop and SSH’d across the network to linux boxes. [...]

Posted 01 April 2007 † schof § Linux § Macintosh § Macintosh Productivity § Programming ‡ Comments (0)