Graceful Exits

Graceful Exits goes straight-edge with Straight Edge, a minimalist theme written by yours truly.

logging.debug(”if only I’d known”) logging.debug(”if only I’d known”) /* is there any way to turn this off? */ logging.debug(”if only I’d known”) ….

Software as a service finally comes of age, with the web’s new-found ability to pipe the sad trombone and instant rimshot directly into your office or home (via b3ta).

If it’s really the case that browsers, virtual machines and IDEs will one day converge, then the first steps would be to run Java, Ruby and other languages in a browser using Javascript. (Hat tip to Nick for the timely links.)
[Edit: run Python using Javascript too.]

“Never attribute to malware that which can be adequately explained by stupidware.”

Back from a rather physical near-week of team building with work, I’ve been listening to Last.fm today to recuperate and nurse my tired muscles. But with the music playing on our crusty, trusty old purple iMac in one corner, and me in the other reading, drinking tea or otherwise recuperating, how can I tell at [...]

Simon Willison mentioned a while back a link to help on how to undo a svn commit in subversion (more a kind of internal branching than an actual undo, of course: but that’s subversion). That’s all very well, but how about undoing the log message for a particular commit?
Say you have a codebase that only [...]

After several administrative steps over a few months, we suddenly found the following error coming from an instance of SQL Server on a virtual machine:

Your SQL Server installation is either corrupt or has been tampered with (unable to load SQLBOOT.DLL). Please uninstall them re-run setup to correct this problem.

Nobody had been keeping an eye [...]

As the natural extension of Gareth Rushgrove’s bookmarklets for inserting the Dojo or YUI Javascript toolkits mentioned by Simon, here’s a tidying-up of a bookmarklet I’ve been using to bring in any Javascript using user input via a popup prompt:
Insert-JS bookmarklet

javascript:void(function(){
  var%20s=document.createElement("script");
  s.src=prompt("Full%20URL:");
  document.getElementsByTagName("head")[0].appendChild(s);
}())

I was originally appending it to the body as an invisible div, making use of [...]

Say you want to see both the log and diff of a given svn version, just the differences between it and the previous version, plus log message (i.e. what was committed, and why, for version NUM) The following will work at a bash command prompt:
$ r=NUM; rr=-r`expr $r - 1`:$r; svn log -r$r; svn diff [...]