Topher Cyll

Ben and I went to hear Jeff Waugh (Gnome evangelist and Ubuntu Linux employee) speak two nights ago. He's a funny guy and the stuff about Ubuntu was very interesting.

Imagine my surprise when I ran into him on the train this morning. Apparently there was some kind of desktop linux summit in Beaverton.

posted on: 12/01/2005 | path: /tech

I bought Agile Web Development With Rails today and had the following conversation.

Clerk: That's a mighty popular book. Is it for a class or something?
Me: Not that I know of.
Clerk: Huh. I've just sold three of these during my shift.

Good lord! Three copies a night? Of a programming book? About Ruby? DHH must be making bank on this. And more power to him!

In other news, I just switched cyll.org from using Apache2 to LightTPD. I'm really impressed. I couldn't care less about speed, but what blows me away is that it seems to match Apache module per module, feature per feature, and yet it's simple to configure. LightTPD is good design.

posted on: 10/19/2005 | path: /tech

Sounds like Dean Roseman doesn't like the WSO Blogs. I'm happy to find that something I built is continuing to annoy the administration in my abscence. =)

Meanwhile in the dork kingdom, I discovered that I was getting different results when running the following Ruby code on my x86 and on my PPC.

[1234].pack('N')

Considering that 'N' is supposed to mean the universal network byte ordering, this is a huge problem. Having just downloaded and built Ruby 1.8.3 for each, I find they now agree. Glad that's fixed.

posted on: 09/29/2005 | path: /tech