Autumn Leaves Leaf #1: Announcer
This bot is perfect for anything where you need to easily build IRC channel notifications into an existing process. It’s…
CLI
Autumn Leaves (a ruby framework for IRC bots)
What an awesome awesome thing for people who use IRC in their day to day lives! I’ll post a couple…
Bash: “I Can’t Eat Another Byte”
root@server:/dir/ # ls | wc -l 1060731 root@server:/dir/ # for i in *; do rm -v $i done; done me@home:~/…
Scripting without killing system load
Let us pretend for a moment that you have a critical system which can *just* handle the strain that it’s…
All things being equal, the simplest solution tends to be the best one.
Occam’s razor strikes again! Tonight we ran into an interesting problem. A web service – with a very simple time-elapsed…
PHP CLI Status Indicator
Most times when people write command line scripts they just let the output flow down the screen as a status…
Backgrounding Chained Commands in Bash
Sometimes it’s desirable to have a chain of commands backgrounded so that a multi-step process can be run in parallel.…
ruby-Mapquest Release v0.002
Welcome: ruby-Mapquest v0.002. Wherein I’ve added support for routing (directions.) Let me tell you that getting the info together for…
Kudos to the openfount guys
I’m really very impressed with the speed at which the Openfount guys responded to my last post. I definitely give…