Tag: oss

Things on Hold

If you’ve been following me on Twitter you might have seen some comments about an ongoing conflict happening in Redmine. I was planning a larger blog post today with the details but I changed my mind and am attempting to restart the conflict resolution before any major decisions are made. I really hate conflict but …

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LinuxWorld San Francisco Overview

Yesterday I spent about five hours at the LinuxWorld in San Francisco and had a blast. It was refreshing to see so many commercial companies devoted and supporting Linux in the applications. I found a lot of the booths could be classified into one of four groups: Large ‘Enterprise’ Software Companies – Think Novell or …

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LinuxWorld San Francisco

I just got back in from the LinuxWorld in San Francisco and it was a blast. I will try yo post more details about it tomarrow but I found I got over 20 pounds of “stuff”. Linux rocks! Eric Davis

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My Ruby Cookbook: #1 Textile Convertor

I just got a simple script working that will parse a text file that is marked up in “Textile”:http://textism.com/tools/textile/ and turn it into HTML(Hyper Text Markup Language). It is a simple “Ruby”:http://www.ruby-lang.org script that requires RubyGems and “RedCloth”:http://www.whytheluckystiff.net/ruby/redcloth/. Just run <typo:code> ruby textilize.rb myfile.txt another_file.txt </typo:code> and it will create a myfile.txt.html and another_file.txt.html. This …

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