http://www.fnokd.com Bob Blogs Sat, 06 Sep 2008 00:43:14 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I'm in the process of moving to some farmland in Virginia.  It's out in the boonies. How far in the boonies?  No cable.  No DSL.  GSM is sketchy. Thankfully, I've moved my personal development to Git as noted previously, which works wonderously.  With no TCP in the air, I can still commit, ... http://www.fnokd.com/2008/09/05/offline-aint-that-bad/ I woke up and noticed that a memcached mode was announced by Bela Ban, the fantastically Swiss man who jogs waaay too much. There's a lot of things in this world that can take advantage of memcached.  Personally, I find this quite interesting, considering that memcached tends to be the cache-of-choice ... http://www.fnokd.com/2008/09/04/jgroups-impersonating-memcached/ For those of you playing along at home, I've added jboss-deployers to my GitHub mirror set.  Like the others, the 'vendor' branch is the one you want. jboss-deployers jbossas microcontainer vfs I'm adding JBoss projects to my mirror set as I trip across the need to browse their source.  If there's a JBoss project you'd ... http://www.fnokd.com/2008/08/30/another-jboss-github-repository-mirror/ Back in May, I was a manager. I feebly attempted to direct 8 great guys and gals to further the goals of JBoss.org.  After the Codehaus, you'd think I'd be able to help build an opensource community with fun and flair.  But I came to realize that it's hard to build ... http://www.fnokd.com/2008/08/28/and-now-something-slightly-different/ Oh, fortuna! I'm rejoining the Red Hat/JBoss mothership, doing rubyish things, and what do you know, but there's a RubyCamp at the RHT HQ in Raleigh on October 18th. 37signals and Ruby Row are sponsoring the event. Space is limited to 200, but at the time of this posting only 57 have signed ... http://www.fnokd.com/2008/08/25/raleigh-rubycamp/ A project I'm working on requires some hard-core monkey-patching of Rails internals. Monkey-patching is a dangerous occupation, and liable to cause new and intriguing bugs into previously-tested sane code. I've been working on a smarter patch-monkey, known as Lemur. The goal is to allow monkey-patched methods (currently only instance methods are supported) to ... http://www.fnokd.com/2008/08/24/be-a-smarter-patch-monkey/ In addition to the previously-mentioned JRuby mirror from Codehaus SVN to GitHub, I'm now also mirroring: JBoss Microcontainer JBoss AS5 JRuby All are trunk-only mirrors, not picking up branches or tags. Since the JBoss repository path has about 77,000 subversion revisions, and at one point held any and all JBoss software ever written, ... http://www.fnokd.com/2008/08/21/github-mirrors-for-some-jboss-projects/ So, I'm gearing up to work on some Java+Ruby (via JRuby) stuff. The Java world still seems fairly entrenched in the cult of Subversion, while the Rubyists have gone with Git lately. I'm still wrapping my mind around Git, but with GitHub, it's fairly easy and straight-forward. I paid ... http://www.fnokd.com/2008/08/20/mirroring-svn-repository-to-github/ If you've spent time around a child as he's developed language, you'll notice how he starts with a string of similar statements: I saw a dog I saw a cat I saw a bee I saw another dog I saw Don Henley After a while, that can get a tad annoying, and you become grateful when ... http://www.fnokd.com/2008/08/13/conjunction-something/ I've been noticing lately, it seems that "heirloom" is popping up everywhere. There are heirloom vegetables, of course. The tasty varieties of tomatoes your grandparents grew up on, instead of the red/orange globes that taste like nothing. Then I noticed a store selling "heirloom sewing supplies". Some dictionary defines "heirloom" as A valued ... http://www.fnokd.com/2008/08/09/ye-olde-retro-heirloom-shoppe-vintage-edition/