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It's a brand new blog(s)!

over 3 years ago by jacius on blog.jacius.info.
You may notice that something seems different around here. Today I migrated my blog from that crusty old Typo to the shiny new Mephisto! Most things are...

The Magic of Interwebs 2.0

almost 4 years ago by jacius on blog.jacius.info.
[Update, May 25 – I changed over to Mephisto, and the sidebar doesn’t currently have the Ta-da lists anymore.] If you look down at the bottom right...

Testing the Git Waters

over 3 years ago by jacius on blog.jacius.info.
Apparently, Git is the new hotness, and Github is liquid hotness concentrate, with pulp. Or, so I hear. Rails monkeys seem to like it, anyway. ;) You can...

Rant: BetterNestedSet (than a nail in your skull)

almost 4 years ago by jacius on blog.jacius.info.
I’ve been tinkering around with ApeDoctor, my to-be API documentation application running on Rails. The core class of ApeDoctor is the Amodule, a representation...

Easier solution for using BetterNestedSet

almost 4 years ago by jacius on blog.jacius.info.
More tinkering with BetterNestedSet, and I think I’ve got the solution nailed: First of all, use redundant columns to store the parent id. One is for...

Old code = Blech!

almost 4 years ago by jacius on blog.jacius.info.
To gear up or some more challenging tasks, I’ve been writing specs for Rect. If there’s anything to inspire humility in a programmer, it’s looking...

"Thou shalt indent with spaces"

almost 4 years ago by jacius on blog.jacius.info.
In Rubygame’s “rich and storied life”, I’ve gone through different style phases (and the codebase shows it, if you look closely), usually as a result...

Music Toy Idea

almost 4 years ago by jacius on blog.jacius.info.
I had an interesting idea for a musical sound-generation toy, inspired by Electroplankton. The gist of it is that there is a ”sea anemone” on the screen...

Ruby C Extension Cheat Sheet

~4 years ago by jacius on blog.jacius.info.
I got tired of looking all over for call sequences (let alone proper documentation) for functions used for creating Ruby extensions written in C, so Iâ...

Culling Projects

~4 years ago by jacius on blog.jacius.info.
I have a personal tendency to accumulate projects. Lots of projects. So many projects that I could never find the time work on them all. So, older projects...