Posts Tagged ‘ F/OSS ’

Oh look, the hosting market likes open source

Saw an article by the ever-delightful Sam Dean over at OStatic blogs and it would seem that the list of top-10 most reliable servers run either FreeBSD or Linux. Being a penguin fan myself, I’d like to see a little more of the latter but I’m quite satisfied with the 1/10 offering put forward by [ READ MORE ]

Compile JavaScript to Java classes with Rhino

Can you compile JavaScript to Java classes? Why, yes! Yes, you can! Rhino lets you do exactly that. Example here[ READ MORE ]

I have discovered Sinatra and gained enlightenment

I don’t mean Frank Sinatra, I attained enlightenment from him when I was in fifth grade and my father sat me down to teach me the way of the rat pack. That day, I learned many things and as I stayed up late, sneakily listening to one of his latest anthologies (remastered of course), the [ READ MORE ]

My Ubiquity commands

I have written some Ruby scripts (using ERB + Rake to build and git to track+publish) to maintain my personal repository of Ubiquity commands. In addition to automagically generating pages for me, there is also a consolidated command feed which contains all of the commands I use personally. You can check out my commands at [ READ MORE ]

Waiting for a new Ubiquity

I am not the only one who got slammed by the broken upgrade to Ubiquity 0.1.6. In the new version, all ubiquity commands are lost, which is bad. It’s been reported, discussed and patched. Unfortunately, a new release has not been issued yet and I find myself rather paralyzed given how much I have come [ READ MORE ]

Introducing RadiateFS: a networked filesystem written in Ruby

After a discussion with my friend Erik and following the consumption of much pastry, I decided to try and write a networked filesystem using only Ruby and FUSE. After one iteration, I had everything documented and ready to go but I wasn’t happy with the design or the architecture. In large part, I discovered shortcomings [ READ MORE ]

Debian Lenny released!

Debian Lenny 5.0 has been released. Happy day![ READ MORE ]

Convert your favorite language to JavaScript

As usual, Joel called it. He predicted the rise in JavaScript toolkits followed by smart compilers which turn other languages into JS. Though there are a number of neat frameworks out there which leverage some of the true power which lies within JS as a language (most notably SproutCore), there are some which go a [ READ MORE ]

Ruby 1.9.1 released: Huzzah!

There was much celebration throughout the Internets as it was announced that Ruby 1.9.1 has been released as stable. I am very excited and wondering how long until it gets into Debian. Will it even make it into testing considering how widely it’s used and how Ruby1.9 already exists in Lenny? I hope so&#[ READ MORE ]

Walking in someone else’s shoes

Just discovered Shoes, the lightweight GUI toolkit writte by why the lucky stiff. Unfortunately, I seem to have a very old version of it included in Debian Lenny and it doesn’t seem as if the one in Sid is any newer. Oh well, that didn’t stop me from writing a little app which, in addition [ READ MORE ]

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Jonathan E. Magen is a passionate developer who loves cooking and writing clean code. Star Trek is cool, too. Also, books. Many things are actually really great and Jonathan likes them as well.

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