Editing puppet files with vim: now with ‘quickfix’ support.

Tuesday, March 31st, 2009

So the puppet guys provide some notes and files on running puppet with vim.
One thing I didn’t see anything that provided a ‘compiler’, so I could edit a ‘.pp’ file, then do :make to check for errors. (Check out :help make in your vim for more information about the quickfix tool.)
This little tar contains all [...]

DTrace on OSX: incredibly useful.

Saturday, March 21st, 2009

So because I am insane and completely unable to master one thing before becoming fascinated with something new, I’m learning Haskell. By “learning” I mean “will be able to do simple apps and have a good sense for what it’s good for.”
In any case, it’s easy to install on a Mac if you’ve got MacPorts [...]

When you don’t even have a pullup bar…

Friday, March 6th, 2009

I haven’t talked about it much on this site, other than on my twitter feed, but I’m really enjoying a fitness program I’ve been doing called CrossFit. (I go to Culver City Crossfit and it is awesome.)
In any case, there have been days (like this Friday) where for some reason I can’t make it. No [...]