eThreads news
February 05, 2001 by Eric Richardson
I just realized that the modify function has been broken in #{node "7"}eThreads#{/node} for weblogs. I think I'm going to rewrite all of that (so that you have the same features in modify as in creating a post) right now. Together with the domain binding stuff which I finished (and used extensively) but never posted, that should be good enough for a 1.3 release.
fun with packet sniffing
February 05, 2001 by Eric Richardson
Someone needs to port something like etherpeg to Linux. I imagine it wouldn't be too hard, and it would be very cool as a webcollage like screensaver.
In a similar vein, Etherape is a cool little tool for seeing where network traffic is going. Much fun, and producing nice pictures. That's really my only requirement for a piece of software. I do run Enlightenment, after all.
SOAP
February 01, 2001 by Eric Richardson
I have a problem. I want to start using SOAP for some RPC type stuff. It sounds like it's absolutely perfect for what I want, and the Perl SOAP implementation is supposed to be great. So where's the problem? I have absolutely no idea how it works. I can find plenty of docs on the spec, but I don't want that. All I want is a step-by-step guide that says "here's what you have to do to use SOAP". Is that too much to ask?
lyx
January 30, 2001 by Eric Richardson
I just installed a new version of Lyx (my word processor of choice) and found that it now supports rcs version control. That's awesome. While I doubt I'll see much of a market for side-by-side diffs of English papers, it's awesome to be able to see the evolution of a doc.
intercourse
January 29, 2001 by Eric Richardson
So apparently someone found the verbal intercourse section of this site searching for intercourse on excite. I find that funny. I should check out some other search engines for that...