Updating Rails on OS X
by enum on June 23, 2009
If you install XCode for OS X 10.5, it automatically comes with a version of rails. This is (generally) not the latest version however, and you must take a few steps to update it. First you need to update rubygems (…)
Scripting Languages
by enum on June 22, 2009
I just thought I’d share with you Random thoughts on scripting languages by Brian Kernighan. After reading this, I looked up the source code to the unix utility wc. The GNU wc program was written in C, and amounted to (…)
Replace Text Recursively with sed
by enum on June 17, 2009
Here is a quick little trick I discovered today when I needed to replace text in multiple files recursively: grep -rl -e <searchterm> * | xargs sed -i .bak ‘s/searchterm/newterm/i’ There might be a problem with files that have spaces (…)
New Tattoo
by enum on June 14, 2009
Yesterday I got my tattoo extended. Have a look And my girlfriend also got a new tattoo, a birthday present… I think it’s nice.