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Re: Every Friday, rain or shine (Scripting News)

Pistos — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 14:15:14 -0000

Indeed, I perhaps shouldn't have employed the wording "either that or". Nevertheless, I still think that both full blogging and comment threads are solutions, even if perhaps to different problems. I'll continue to employ both. :)

Re: Every Friday, rain or shine (Scripting News)

Pistos — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 13:56:49 -0000

I hope nothing bad happens to FriendFeed, I really like it. :( But certainly, I'm of the opinion that we should posting more than just to microblogs.

Re: Every Friday, rain or shine (Scripting News)

Pistos — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 13:46:28 -0000

Either that, or you use a microblogging service that has comment threads, wherein you can place extended thoughts and discussion about your short message. Like FriendFeed. http://friendfeed.com/

Re: Awesomeful

Pistos — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 22:54:13 -0000

I'm certainly a PostgreSQL user (and MySQL avoider), but I find it curious that you mention Rails at all in this post. I thought ActiveRecord does most (everything?) on its own, and uses only the bare bones of the database simply to persist. Meaning to say, many of the advantages you cite, some of which are absent in MySQL, won't even be used by ActiveRecord. For example, views, triggers, rules, and plpgsql functions. As such, a Rails user switching DBs from MySQL to PostgreSQL won't see much difference.

A _Ruby_ user on the other hand...

Re: Rails Alternatives: Merb, Sinatra & Ramaze

Pistos — Thu, 28 May 2009 09:02:24 -0000

Nice, brief overview of the three. Thanks for sharing your thoughts on them, and thanks for the positive mention of Ramaze, as well as the linkage. :)

Re: Ruby Best Practices - Blog

Pistos — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 13:23:52 -0000

Robert: Ah, of course! Well that's certainly one situation you'd want to use it. However, I'm not sure how often I'd find myself in that situation. :)

Re: Ruby Best Practices - Blog

Pistos — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 09:01:27 -0000

You can't take what is in the ensure block and put it after the end of begin-end. This code example should elucidate:


begin
  puts 1
  raise "Oh no!"
rescue Exception => e
  puts 2
  raise e
ensure
  puts 3
end
puts 4

Output:


1
2
3
-:3: Oh no! (RuntimeError)

Re: Comment formatting?

Pistos — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 08:54:34 -0000

Code doesn't really work. REAL code has at least one level of indentation, which <code> doesn't preserve:


if condition
  do_something  # supposed to be indented
else
  do_something_else   # supposed to be indented
end

Re: Ruby Best Practices - Blog

Pistos — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 08:50:37 -0000

ehsanul: I think you misunderstood my question. :) Perhaps a code example will help. I was wondering why we need this:


    begin  
      do_work
      something_at_end_of_begin_block
    rescue Exception => e  
    else  
      something_in_else_block
    end

When we can do this instead:


    begin  
      do_work
      something_at_end_of_begin_block
      something_in_else_block
    rescue Exception => e  
    end

(Gah, can't format code blocks. Disqus: fail)

Re: Ruby Best Practices - Blog

Pistos — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 14:30:13 -0000

I'm having trouble seeing the utility of an else block after a rescue block. Why not just put the contents of the else at the end of the begin block?

Re: Does Ruby Dream A Shell?

Pistos — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:07:17 -0000

I've skimmed the README. This looks like it has the most promise of all Ruby shells I've seen, but I have to say that I am too used to classic shells (currently zsh is my choice). If I have to use : instead of - for switches, and put filenames in quotes, that is too much of a change for my comfort zone. I think a successful Ruby shell would never punish me for using classic shell syntax, but would have some sugar on top to let me manipulate things with Ruby once in a while.

Re: Comments Are Now Enabled - { |one, step, back| }

Pistos — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 23:52:58 -0000

I tried Disqus for a [very] short while on my blog, but I found two problems that made me switch back [to plain Wordpress comments]:

(1) There is no comment preview. (Related: It wasn't immediately obvious if they supported a markup syntax of some kind)

(2) It took away the Markdown support that I already had installed on my blog comments.

I do admit that it has its pluses, and I also observed a non-negligible boost in referred visits. But lack of a preview in a text box that supports markup, and the deactivation of my Markdown support are showstoppers. Oh, not to mention that Wordpress will be officially adopting a direct competitor to Disqus, namely Intense Debate.

Re: The problem of the ensoulment of identical twins

Pistos — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 13:34:51 -0000

This article was quoted in a forum thread in August 2008. Reknowned Catholic apologist Patrick Madrid argues that the Catholic Church's teaching is that humans are ensouled at conception. (I personally remain unconvinced that there is a clear teaching from the Church on ensoulment. In my opinion, Patrick's argumentation did not definitively prove otherwise.)

Re: Free classical sheet music

Pistos — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 01:19:50 -0000

The IMSLP reopened on June 30, 2008. Yay! :)

Re: My programming language is my dance partner

Pistos — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 02:31:26 -0000

Kareem: Just keep having fun with Ruby. Over time, you improve. It helps to find successful programmers and look at the source code of their work, to see how they solve problems. You could begin browsing at github.

Start small: Rather than trying to accomplish something big all on your own, instead, find a program or library that you like, and then adjust or tweak it slightly.

Re: Catholic Reference Extension

Pistos — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 00:14:18 -0000

Lee: Thank you for your kind comments. Could you describe your situation in greater detail? What version of WP or WP-MU do you have? What version of the CRE? Can you give me a screenshot of the Upload Media icon(s)? Because I see the Add Media icons in my installations regardless of whether the CRE is activated or not.

Re: Catholic Reference Extension

Pistos — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:18:53 -0000

alberto: Thanks for your comments. Your request falls under the notion of me making the CRE use any generic texts which are appropriately formatted. The code as it stands is not capable of doing this. I'm not sure when I can get around to developing that.

Re: Catholic Reference Extension

Pistos — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:42:39 -0000

Okay, Bob, I have finally wrestled WordPress' hackish nature to the ground, and managed to get it to let things play nicely. Try this updated 0.8.14 tarball.

Re: Catholic Reference Extension

Pistos — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 23:15:06 -0000

Glad it's working for you, Bob. Beware about the drop shadow, because it affects your RSS feed insofar as it adds a duplicate block of text.

As well, I think you should be able to go back and edit your own comments on my blog. Look for an "Edit This" link on your comments.

Re: Catholic Reference Extension

Pistos — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 15:08:23 -0000

Bob: I have fixed the issue, and am running the latest CRE now on my own blog before I release it publicly. The problem has to do with the fact that WordPress loads all plugins' admin headers all the time, so each plugins' headers (CSS, Javascript, etc.) has the chance to fight with one another. Bad design on WordPress' part, though I hear there is a way to make your admin_header appear only on specific admin pages (such as your own plugin's admin page!); and not using a hackish if() statement.

Anyway, the fix is to upgrade to the latest jQuery. If you want to beta test this along with me, download version 0.8.14 and unpack that over your existing installation. Otherwise just wait a few days for me to make sure I didn't break anything. :)

Re: Catholic Q&A: The oldest Christian religion

Pistos — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 00:44:24 -0000

Seth: You can begin by browsing EWTN and Catholic Answers. If you have particular questions, let me know.

Re: Faster applications by using SQL over ORM

Pistos — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 08:49:42 -0000

I've more formally created/released better-benchmark here.

Re: Catholic Reference Extension

Pistos — Thu, 29 May 2008 08:19:00 -0000

Lukas: You are not the first to bring up markup validity. As I've mentioned to others (elsewhere), I am creating invalid markup for the sake of making the plugin code easier to develop and maintain (it is simpler). I don't anticipate aiming for 100% validity soon; sorry.

Are the admin panel errors fatal, or do they otherwise prevent you from configuring the CRE?

Re: Catholic Reference Extension

Pistos — Tue, 27 May 2008 09:28:03 -0000

Lukas: Sorry, I've been busy with various things. Could you provide me with homepages or download links to the gzip plugin/module that you think you would settle with? I will try to test it with my own server and blog.

Re: Catholic Reference Extension

Pistos — Fri, 16 May 2008 13:11:35 -0000

Okay, thanks. I will investigate those two. Meanwhile, have you considered using server-level gzip compression?