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John Mettraux, programmer
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rufus-scheduler 3.6.0 released
en ruby rufus-schedulerThe last Ruby Weekly contained a pointer to Resque-Scheduler in its "Code & Tools" section. I was a bit intrigued, it's been years since Ruby Weekly reposted anything I pushed to RubyFlow about rufus-scheduler (or its dependencies like fugit.
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reddit answer on workflow engines
workflow flor florist rubyHere is an answer I wrote for go to resource on how to build a workflow engine.
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flor workflow engine
en flor workflow rubyflor is a workflow engine. It's written in Ruby.
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the flor language
en flor workflow rubyFlor is a language for defining workflows for the flor workflow engine.
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L'Effroyable Tragédie
fr bookIt's a book in french, I'll anyway write about it in english. …
Before the Dawn
en bookAfter reading Guns, Germs, and Steel, I had to read Before the Dawn. …
Gemfile.lock
en ruby gemfileIf you are responsible for an application, a last-mile application, not a library (a gem), please check in your Gemfile.lock.
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rufus-scheduler 3.5.0 released
en ruby rufus-schedulerrufus-scheduler 3.5.0 just got released.
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Guns, Germs, and Steel
en bookUp until now, I used to post the cover of the books I completed on Instagram. …
fugit 1.1.0 released
en ruby rufus-scheduler fugitI'm working on a newer version of Rufus-Scheduler, it'll probably be a 3.5.x.
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flor design 0
en flor ruby workflowI was approached on Twitter by Benjamin Dauvergne asking me about flor's design.
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Hiroshima.rb #058
en ruby hiroshimarbYesterday's evening we had Hiroshima.rb #058 at the Basset Café in West Hiroshima.
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RubyKaigi 2017
en ruby rubykaigi hiroshimarbThe RubyKaigi Circus came in our good town of Hiroshima for its 2017 edition last week. …
chruby in Hiroshima
en ruby hiroshimarb programmingBack in June, I presented about chruby and ruby-install at Hiroshima.rb #056. My slides are available on Speaker Deck.
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tiny delicious clone for Hiroshima.rb 057
en ruby hiroshimarb programmingFor the first iteration of Hiroshima.rb "reboot" (#056), I had presented about chruby. (Sorry no blog post).
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yahoo proxy with python
en python suhi programmingI am not a Python programmer, but I participated to last night SugoiHiroshima (#すごい広島) and I had brought with me a deck of slides about a small proxy to Yahoo Finance that I wrote as a toy example.
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hail to the King Arduin
en arduino osxI got an Arduino Nano clone for ~ USD 3.5 and attempted to connect it to my OSX Yosemite laptop. …
my "Open in Vim" OSX service
en vim programming osx toolsMany times, when contemplating a grep or a rspec output, I wish I could wink at a certain line and make it open the target file at the appointed line.
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zero indent
en programmingAs I wrote earlier, I don't use a debugger, lately I've started placing the puts, p and pp I use to help me develop at indentation zero, like this:
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rufus-scheduler 3.3.0 released
en rufus-scheduler rubyI have just released rufus-scheduler 3.3.0.
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patterns at Hiroshima Lightning Talks
enI gave a lightning talk about patterns at the Hiroshima Lightning Talks gathering.
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rufus-scheduler 3.2.1 released
en rufus-scheduler rubyI've just released rufus-scheduler 3.2.1.
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dot errors rspec custom formatter
en ruby rspecI work with two terminals side by side, a wide one of the left for running and an 80 columns one on the right for editing. The left one often gets hidden behind a browser window but I can easily bring it back with a keyboard shortcut.
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vim :ListOld
en vimThe initial version of this post was about a ListOld function. After a few days, I changed my mind about it and rewrote as ListFiles, including current buffers and recently opened files in a single "view". The original post is still visible.
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radial and flon
en flonI'm currently reworking flon in Ruby. I might use it for a customer, hence this preparatory work. I did a first pass at flor but I noticed that I was copying too much. …
hyperbooks
en litteratureBooks reference each other, directly or indirectly. You can now spend a life spidering from one book to the other.
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familiarity
en jp litterature "A man should avoid displaying deep familiarity with any subject. Can one imagine a well-bred man talking with the airs of a know-it-all, even about a …
"banausic occupations
en xenophon philosophy "Very good, Critobulus; for to be sure, the so-called banausic occupations are scorned and, naturally enough, held in low regard in our states. For they …
"munemo 1.0
en rubymunemo is a rewrite of rufus-mnemo. The first rewrite was actually in C as mnemo, munemo is a port of mnemo from C to Ruby.
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small, custom-built interpreters
en programming link "There's not much personal appeal to a Z80 emulator, but many applications I've written have small, custom-built interpreters in them, and maybe …
"released rufus-scheduler 3.2.0
en ruby rufus-schedulerI have just released rufus-scheduler 3.2.0.
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blank in the thinking
en fr languageI'm an avid reader of Jacqueline de Romilly. She wrote a serie of essays about the health and the evolution of the french language. Here is a quote:
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I don't use a debugger
en programmingI spiral around the problem with a test, the smallest test possible that demonstrates the symptom of the bug.
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programmer arrogance
en programmingMy friend said to me: "to tell you the truth, I've never met a programmer who'd tell me good things about what another programmer built".
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a world split apart
en litterature "If, as claimed by humanism, man were born only to be happy, he would not be born to die. Since his body is doomed to death, his task on earth evidently …
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