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Continuing the tradition started two years ago, here’s my Dad’s third “obscure” Christmas card, from 1975: Previously: 1974 1973 [...]

Continuing the tradition started three years ago, here’s my Dad’s fourth “obscure” Christmas card, from 1976: (The small image is a little bl [...]

Continuing the tradition started four years ago, here’s my Dad’s fifth “obscure” Christmas card, from 1977: Previously: 1976 1975 1974 1973 [...]

It’s been 40 years since my Dad started sending out Christmas cards with “obscure” messages! I’ve been posting them *almost every December for [...]

Despite its popularity WEBrick has gained some notoriety since the code is completely undocumented. – Wikipedia’s WEBrick page WEBrick is the li [...]

Despite its popularity WEBrick has gained some notoriety since the code is completely undocumented. – Wikipedia’s WEBrick page WEBrick is the li [...]

[...] , and in spite of my best efforts, I sometimes get exceptions that result in the display of Ruby backtraces instead of the web page I asked for. While the backtrace helpfully lists the places in my [...]

[...] the file in RubyMine to see more context requires copying the path, invoking a RubyMine keyboard shortcut for open-file, and pasting. Work. After a lot of this copy and pasting, it [...]

[...] “mine:” links in backtraces. It starts with instructions on setting up Firefox and the RubyMine wrapper; once you’ve followed them, you’ll get links in the backtrace that’ll take you [...]

I use RubyMine and Firefox for most of my day-to-day Ruby on Rails development, and in spite of my best efforts, I sometimes get exceptions that resul [...]

[...] shows over the years, starting with a private performance for Apple folks in the San Francisco Civic Auditorium, sometime in the late ’80s. This time, the music was great, and the athletic [...]

[...] to me to join Firefox’s ability to invoke a program for a particular URL scheme, and the command-line wrapper that RubyMine can produce to open files in a running RubyMine instance. This gist is the [...]