http://whomwah.com The website of Duncan Robertson, current working for the BBC in London, Uk Wed, 19 Nov 2008 19:50:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Nokogiri is an HTML, XML, SAX, and Reader parser with XPath and CSS selector support. It claims to be a drop in replacement for Hpricot, and it claims to be faster. I think the latter has been addressed but the drop-in bit, well. You see, the Hpricot's gem had always ... http://whomwah.com/2008/11/13/installing-nokogiri-on-centos5/ [UPDATE] It turns out you need to apply the patch below on any recent Linux distribution, not just 64 bit architectures, if that helps anyone. More head scratching, web searching, friend asking, and huzzah, finally solved. How to actually install daemonstools on my SliceHost CentOS5 slice. The catch for me was ... http://whomwah.com/2008/11/04/installing-daemontools-on-centos5-x86_64/ I have been playing with ejabberd, Jabber, XMPP and the various client libraries, specifically the rather wonderfully simple Jabber::Simple and Jabber:Bot. It all started because I was doing a Fireeagle integration job with a product at work, and was getting frustrated with the fact that it is still not super simple ... http://whomwah.com/2008/11/02/bbc-programmes-via-instant-messenger/ I had to do a bit of searching to find the correct way to install Twisted on a 64 bit CentOS 5 machine, like the one I have via virtual hosting with SliceHost. But once I had the answers it was very actually very simple, so this should save you ... http://whomwah.com/2008/10/26/installing-pythons-twisted-on-centos5-x86_64/ Old news, but you'd be surprised how many times the same: Could not create Makefile due to some reason, probably lack of necessary libraries and/or headers. ... error brings everything to a halt. Well on Centos the way to install the MySQL gem is: $ sudo yum install mysql mysql-devel gcc ... # 32 bit machine $ sudo ... http://whomwah.com/2008/10/13/installing-mysql-gem-on-centos/ Whilst searching through my hard-drive the other day, I found a bunch of games and experiments I did in Flash 5/MX. At that time I was still working in engineering, and reading everything I could about the the web and computer languages. Although the games are not ground breaking and ... http://whomwah.com/2008/10/05/flash-5mx-games-and-experiments-from-early-2000/ I recently found some old Flash games I had written about 7 years ago, and it got me reminiscing about all the old games I used to play on my Acorn Electron when I was a boy. Here's a screenshot of one of my favorites, Repton. I also have fond memories ... http://whomwah.com/2008/10/02/repton-and-bbc-basic-a-blast-from-the-past/ I forget this pretty much all the time, even though it's a fairly simple operation. There are loads of timezone data files stored in: /usr/share/zoneinfo So for my CentOS install, to set my machine to GMT, I use: # # this is not correct for me # $ date Wed Oct 1 07:43:58 CDT 2008 # # to ... http://whomwah.com/2008/10/01/setting-the-timezone-on-centos/ I use Twitter. I don't really post much, but I do like to dip in and hear what my friends are doing. Yammer is like a private Twitter for companies. We have just had a network set up for the BBC, which is interesting. Again, I like the idea of ... http://whomwah.com/2008/09/28/twammer-sending-stuff-from-twitter-to-yammer/ Lots of feature patches are being committed at the moment on BBC Programmes which means lots of nice new stuff to talk about. Tom has mentioned a couple of the current batch, but I thought I'd reiterarte the upcoming stuff because it was work I was involved in. The upcoming views ... http://whomwah.com/2008/09/16/now-next-information-for-bbc-programmes/