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Monday, March 21, 2011

PDF Forms Editing in OS X

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I needed a simple PDF forms editor so that I can fill in and send forms via email and did not want to use the stone age process of printing ...
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Thursday, February 3, 2011

Bundling jruby app with rawr:bundle:exe dies with 'private method `split' called for nil:NilClass' in

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I have a little jruby SWT app that I'm trying to bundle up in its own little cocoon with rawr but I keep getting the following: C:\nms-...

Resizing your OS X VMWare Fusion Virtual Disk

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Assumptions: New disk size is 40GB. Current virtual disk is foo.vdmk Current VM image is at /Users/foo/Documents/Foo.vmwarevm Quick recipe: ...
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Thursday, October 21, 2010

TACACS+, packet loss and 'Authorization failed' errors

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I've been hunting a TACACS+ issue that a customer reported whereby they would be able to log into a network device but somewhere in the ...
Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Sharing is caring: Ruby, Perl, Memcached and MsgPack

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Do you need to share data structures between ruby and perl ... FAST? I recently saw MsgPack bubble through my RSS feeds and tagged it to go...
Thursday, July 1, 2010

How do you make your Clojure REPL suck less?

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Simple, rely on the venerable rlwrap that provides you with a readline wrapper around your existing REPL. My sucky REPL looked like this: #!...
Monday, October 12, 2009

B0rked ports on Snow Leopard

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If you are using MacPort to manage OSS on your box and you recently upgraded to Snow Leopard you will find error messages like this when t...
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Tuesday, September 22, 2009

OS X Snow Leopard and broken scrolling in MacVim

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My upgrade to Snow Leopard has been pretty smooth sailing bar one annoying hitch. After the upgrade MacVim stopped scrolling properly. Whe...
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