I was looking for a way for CVS to send email whenever someone commits something in the repository. It’s possible by editing the CVSROOT/loginfo file and specifying a handler script. The script can basically do whatever with the information, including sending emails.
I came across a post talking about utilising the CVS loginfo file, but with a twist. It outputs to RSS instead of emails. Clever.
I modified the script to work with our work environment. Nothing major. But it got me learning Ruby. This was my first “fling” with Ruby. And I love it.
“Mahjong???”, you said.
In general, there are two kinds of Mahjong game: the more popular
four-player game Mahjong and the
one-player Mahjong
Solitaire. The original
Mahjong game is a gambling game which is very popular in Hong Kong and in
most Asian countries. I’m not interested in the original Mahjong game,
personally I think there are just too many rules for it to be fun to play
without gambling, as I’m not into gambling. Mahjong Solitaire, on the other
hand, is simple yet intriguing. The version I play is GNOME
Mahjongg. You can find other
versions and an explanation on how to play the game in the Wikipedia
article for Mahjong
Solitaire.
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While I was trying out del.icio.us, I found out that the porn image rendering library used by Mozilla is named libpr0n. Somebody must have a really good sense of humour. If you go to the website you can “register” your copy of libpr0n and get a “serial number” to “unlock” libpr0n so that it can render unlimited amount of pixels.
FYI, “pr0n” is a commonly-used alternative to write “porn” on the Internet. And yes, it’s a joke. The lib is an actual lib, but it’s clear that the name and registration thing are meant as a joke.
I’ve seen the cute URL del.icio.us before, but I couldn’t be bothered to check what it’s about.
Until I saw Budi Rahardjo’s posting about centralized bookmarks solutions. “Cool! I’ll check it out later,” I said to myself. Then I saw some references to del.icio.us again today when I was browsing, so I thought I give it a try.
It works really well so far. It’s dead simple to add a new bookmark, del.icio.us provides you with a bookmarklet, after you sign-up, that you can click whenever you want to bookmark a page, (optionally) edit the description, add some tags to categorize the bookmark, and that’s it. The bookmarks will show on the main del.icio.us page as well as your own in the order it was added.
So to sum it up, the main advantages:
- “roaming” bookmarks: add anywhere, access anywhere,
- categorize the way you want it (with tags), multiple categories per bookmark,
- searchable,
- RSS feed,
- share your bookmarks,
- Mozilla extension,
- free.
Disadvantages (at least for me for now):
- can’t make bookmarks private, everything is public,
- can’t export the whole bookmarks (well, it’s not easy anyway), but not a big deal,
- the author says that it’s a pre-pre-alpha software so it’s not perfect yet, but I don’t know any tech junkie that would be deterred by that kind of statements.
Overall I give it two thumbs up and would recommend it.
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