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February 26, 2008

Server migration under way

The server migration from Rackspace to INetU is currently underway. My aim is do this very carefully, service by service, and keep downtime to a minimum; hopefully minutes rather than hours. Just in case there is any interruption during the...

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Posted by wincent at 11:53 AM

February 19, 2008

Microphone prices

I'm currently looking at getting a better microphone to do screencasts. The one I'm most interested in goes for between $84 and $100 in the US (57€ to 68€). Purchased locally here in Spain the mic goes for upwards of...

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Posted by wincent at 9:51 PM

February 16, 2008

The joy of deleting code

Things have been quiet here of late because I've been feverishly trying to get things ready in order for the server move coming up at the end of this month. It's a big move because it's not just moving the...

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Posted by wincent at 5:53 PM

February 2, 2008

Ragel wins! Fatality!

One of my projects is a fast wikitext-to-HTML translator. It's a Ruby extension written in C with speed being one of its top design goals (robustness, predictability and security being the others). I'm working on this because the Rails rewrite...

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Posted by wincent at 6:07 PM