http://www.rubick.com/blogger/ Jade's weblog OpenACS 5.0 Sat, 30 Aug 2008 01:14:39 GMT http://www.rubick.com/rss-support/images/openacs_logo_rss.gif http://www.rubick.com/blogger/ 126 48 http://www.rubick.com/blogger/one-entry?entry%5fid=32276 http://www.rubick.com/blogger/one-entry?entry%5fid=32276 Another reason for national health insurance is how silly it is the stupid fights you have with your insurance company. We called an ambulance for an emergency with our daughter (it turned out fine, that's another story), and when the bill came, it turns out that THIS PARTICULAR AMBULANCE COMPANY is not freakin' covered by UNITED HEALTH CARE's stupid insurance. Can you imagine? Like you're supposed to ask 911 when you call, "do you take United Health Care?" %&(@ng insurance companie... Sat, 30 Aug 2008 01:14:39 GMT Other http://www.rubick.com/blogger/one-entry?entry%5fid=30408 http://www.rubick.com/blogger/one-entry?entry%5fid=30408 We're moving Volunteer Solutions to git this week. One thing that wasn't documented well was how to set up git emails. There is a git-notify script out there, but in contrib there is post-receive-email. It's actually easy to set up: cd .git/hooks mv post-receive post-receive.bak ln -s /path/to/post-receive-email post-receive chmod a+x /path/to/post-receive-email git config --add hooks.mailinglist "email@address.com" git config hooks.emailprefix "[scms]" emacs ../description (m... Thu, 12 Jun 2008 21:58:55 GMT Other http://www.rubick.com/blogger/one-entry?entry%5fid=27805 http://www.rubick.com/blogger/one-entry?entry%5fid=27805 "When pollsters offer voters hypothetical matchups, Mr. Obama does better than Mrs. Clinton against Mr. McCain. For example, a Cook Political Report poll of registered voters released this week found Mr. McCain beats Mrs. Clinton, 45 percent to 41 percent. But Mr. Obama beats Mr. McCain, 45 percent to 43 percent. The latest Washington Post/ABC News poll found similar results. Mr. Obama also has the highest approval rating of any major candidate among independents, 62 percent, according to a... Thu, 07 Feb 2008 19:48:38 GMT Politics http://www.rubick.com/blogger/one-entry?entry%5fid=27800 http://www.rubick.com/blogger/one-entry?entry%5fid=27800 It appears you can include ! and ? in proc names in Tcl. So you can do nice Ruby-like proc names, such as valid? proc_with_side_effect! Interesting. Wed, 30 Jan 2008 21:52:01 GMT OpenACS http://www.rubick.com/blogger/one-entry?entry%5fid=27794 http://www.rubick.com/blogger/one-entry?entry%5fid=27794 + Sat, 01 Dec 2007 20:55:15 GMT OpenACS http://www.rubick.com/blogger/one-entry?entry%5fid=27015 http://www.rubick.com/blogger/one-entry?entry%5fid=27015 Helpful Sun, 11 Nov 2007 21:48:19 GMT Other http://www.rubick.com/blogger/one-entry?entry%5fid=27014 http://www.rubick.com/blogger/one-entry?entry%5fid=27014 writeWidget('A3D587C536B854713ABF05CAFBEBFC84'); Thu, 08 Nov 2007 22:31:58 GMT Other http://www.rubick.com/blogger/one-entry?entry%5fid=27013 http://www.rubick.com/blogger/one-entry?entry%5fid=27013 A few things I discovered. The 64 bit server version did not work for me -- the 32 bit desktop version did. Mon, 22 Oct 2007 19:21:43 GMT Linux http://www.rubick.com/blogger/one-entry?entry%5fid=27006 http://www.rubick.com/blogger/one-entry?entry%5fid=27006 Oracle has a built-in facility for accessing text files as if they were tables in the database. This is a screaming fast way of loading data into a table, and it is easier than SQLLDR, plus you can keep your foreign key constraints etc.. I used this at United eWay to replace some pages that were taking several hours to load data from a CSV file. The new script took a second or two instead of more than 18+ hours to run (and it actually never completed). Combined with the MERGE SQL comm... Mon, 17 Sep 2007 22:43:34 GMT Other http://www.rubick.com/blogger/one-entry?entry%5fid=27004 http://www.rubick.com/blogger/one-entry?entry%5fid=27004 insert all into foo (a, b) values ('1','2') into foo (a,b) values ('1','2') select sysdate from dual; Wed, 05 Sep 2007 00:58:24 GMT Other