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Changing ANSI colors in Terminal on Macs

Posted by Michael on September 9, 2008 in General, Servers, Systems

Probably the most frustrating experience I have had with Macs so far is figuring out how to change the ANSI colors in Terminal (Terminal.app) so that I can read the outputs of man and most especially ls and comments in vi when colorization is activated and I have chosen a dark background theme.
I am using [...]

Configuring ntpd to hand out time to local servers

Posted by Michael on August 11, 2008 in General, Servers, Systems

Syncing your servers to public time servers is one of the most common ways of keeping server times in sync. Apparently the less common approach of configuring one server to sync with public servers and it in turn becomes the authoritative time keeper for the rest of your servers is less well-known. Digging [...]

Pradipta’s Rolodex

Posted by Michael on July 18, 2008 in General

Something funny happened last night. A one, Max Archie from Indiana hired an India-based Call Center to find a couple of Ruby developers. Well, by and by, the recruiter mass-mails some 400 developers asking if they’re interested. Within about 10 mins, I had to 10 emails of somewhat ticked off developers begging [...]

DRYing your Views

Posted by Michael on July 5, 2008 in General, Ruby Language, SQL

Let me start out by saying that I am finally beginning to understand a bit about that magical Ruby block notion and how implementing methods through block passing can really empower you as a Ruby developer. Thanks to, a most excellent Ruby tutorial, I am definitely feeling a good bit more empowered about getting [...]

Hello world!

Posted by Michael on May 3, 2008 in General

Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging
…and with that, I almost did delete this post to begin start blogging. But alas, every programming example seems to start with “Hello, world!” so I figured this is an appropriate beginning to this blog about myself and programming. [...]