Archive for the 'Whining' Category

For heaven’s sake, please just install hoe!

Thursday, February 21st, 2008

This is why people get annoyed about the silly gem install dependency mess (esp WRT hoe):
$ gem install heckle
Need to update 31 gems from http://gems.rubyforge.org # fair enough, you’re allowed
………………………….
complete
Install required dependency ruby2ruby? [Yn] Y # Yeah, I know you need these
Install required dependency ParseTree? [Yn] Y [...]

Sometimes, a Picture Speaks Louder Than Words

Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007

Especially a picture of SVN commit messages:

PS: That’s an RSS feed via Trac, a decent tool if you can manage to set it up…

Firefox 2.0 Tabs Waste Space

Monday, October 23rd, 2006

We don’t all have big monitors…

RAM Hogs

Wednesday, October 18th, 2006

I’m getting pretty annoyed by the performance of my year-old iBook these days, mostly due to my DSL not working properly and running out of RAM (neither of which is really the fault of the hardware persay). After noticing that I was has 870MB of RAM “Used” (of 1GB total) according to my iStat Nano [...]

Picked on

Friday, June 23rd, 2006

Being singled out

Why Does the Google Search API Suck?

Saturday, December 10th, 2005

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