Wed, 30 Sep 2009
Dynamic Motion on Google Earth
It's very easy to become quite blase or even cynical about new technologies
but sometimes a project grabs your attention and coaxes out a "that's very
cool", the
real time augmented Google Earth had that effect on me.
How long will it be before you can roll back an overlay by X weeks and see what happened in that game last Thursday or check the traffic on your new route at 7am on every Friday for a couple of weeks?
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Posted: 2009/09/30 21:57 | /geekstuff | Permanent link to this entry | This entry and same date
Rake - surprisingly enjoyable
I've never really liked make files, I don't think I've ever had to write
enough C to really appreciate (or just tolerate) them, so I was a little
dismissive of Rake - and I was
mostly wrong.
Now we're adding a new member to the systems team I've been doing a lot
of thinking about our tool chain - what knowledge assumptions it makes,
which parts are still more manual than I'd like and where the tool chain has
gaps (this is the most annoying one for me) and rake seemed like a
potential addition to encode some of that process knowledge in to a tool.
I've only added little rakefiles here and there but they do make certain
tasks nicer (plus I like the inline descs).
I've not yet worked out any general rules for when to use a shell script and when to use rake but if nothing else it's helping me spend some time on my ruby skills. The best rake starting points I found were Martin Fowlers rake article and the rake release notes.
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Posted: 2009/09/30 21:48 | /tools/commandline | Permanent link to this entry | This entry and same date
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