Keith’s Blog

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What I’ve learned while starting to use Subversion while already using Darcs

For whatever reason (actually I have a very good idea what the reason is, and it’s that in vim I can easily adapt a regex by watching highlighting), I write regexes in vim much more easily than in Ruby or Perl. vim’s regexes are powerful, but annoying because of how many characters you have to [...]

We moved offices today, away from our two month stint in Inman Square to a place by my office, here. The new place is probably a mixed bag for us… We really liked the location, windows, and size of the old place, but didn’t really enjoy the noise of the traffic. The new place won’t [...]

So, I did finally manage to get FreeBSD installed last weekend. There were a few factors stabbing me in the back (and making me slag FreeBSD more than it deserved). Specifically, I’ve decided, after about 15 tries, that:

I think the machine got thrown out because one or both of the IDE ports got funked up
I [...]

O’Reilly has a book called Building the Perfect PC. I have built many PCs in the last 6 or 7 years, starting with the machine that I built for myself to take to college. Yet, I have never built the perfect PC. In fact, almost every PC I’ve built then has used a significant number [...]

I just started reading Crossing the Chasm by Geoffrey A. Moore and am enjoying it quite a bit. The book was given to me by a colleague who thought it was a must read because of the startup. The basic premise is this: there’s a huge chasm that separates early adopters of technologies, who [...]

A few hours trying to get Google’s SOAP API working in Ruby or Perl.