Daniel Von Fange

Rsnapshot.

I was on the verge of making a quick kludgy hack for server backups. But yesterday I ran accross rsnapshot which is exactly what I needed. Good, solid, space efficient incremental backups across the internet.

A few more miles.

The dear old Mercedes is now up to 230,000 miles and counting.

The Ruby Way.

Coming to Ruby from Java:

Ruby is a subtle language. If you come to it after mastering another language like Perl or Java, it's easy to write Ruby code that looks a lot like the code you used to write in your previous language. Now, writing code that way won't take any longer than it would've taken in your previous language. But if you decide to become another disciple in the burgeoning Ruby cult, you'll have a lot to gain by absorbing the various Ruby idioms. You'll write clearer code in less time, and you'll write less of it while accomplishing as much as you had before

A recommended read.

Pirates.

I stumbled on a list of list of pirate attacks during the month of October. While I sit on the couch and answer email, somewhere in the world a ship's crew might be fighting of pirates with flareguns or fire hoses.

10k Lines per day.

Alltech Consulting Services is looking for superman.

PERL/VBA Programmer

Required Experience:

Developer with extensive knowledge of PERL and ability to code 7.5K to10K lines per day.

Yow.

Via the daily wtf.

On an unrelated tangent while of ten thousand lines, there is the story of Master Foo and the Ten Thousand Lines. (Why I dislike C.)