Garbage collection, in a very real sense
Following user requests, I’ve uploaded a new version of rmrip which takes a command-line argument specifying your configuration file:
./rmrip.py foo.conf
As the user himself implied, this has the added bonus of making it more crontab-friendly e.g. you can have a crontab entry saying:
0 2 * * 2 $HOME/rmrip/rmrip.py tuesday.conf
You can download rmrip as before from http://www.jpstacey.info/blog/files/code/rmrip.tgz. [...]
Those of you who signed it will probably already know, but the government replied to my petition about efficiency ratings. You can read the petition and its signatories too.
It’s probably not worth dwelling on. The civil servants who drafted the reply clearly had an agenda which they wanted to tell me all about, and the [...]
I’m helping to organise a literary night towards the end of March: read on, and sign up for free if you’re interested.
In the shadow of the official Oxford Literary Festival lurks… Oxfringe, an independent fringe event for local writers and new talent. We’re hosting a one-night session of stories, poetry and hilarious musical acts (time [...]
Mark Mandel wrote his own version of Coldfusion’s XmlTransform() function, using the underlying Java transform classes. Although one of his annoyances—that XmlTransform() won’t take any parameters—has been solved in CFMX7, XmlTransform() is nonetheless a slow operation, as the transform engine has to be cranked up, the XSL compiled, the transform effected and then everything garbage-collected, [...]
Simon makes the case for disambiguated URLs. He’s right, largely. I would say as a proviso, though, that URLs need to be hackable by the developer as well as by the user. The internal spaghetti that translates URLs to files in Django and Ruby on Rails is an initial barrier to developing with those systems, [...]
Further to my earlier post, the first Oxford Geeknight was splendid. It all ran very smoothly, and though Simon Willison, Tom Dyson and I each had a small hand in setting up the tech, really all the praise has to rain down on the head of Natbat, who organised everything down to the minutest detail, [...]