Katrina’s sneeze

Monday, August 29th, 2005

The picture to the right is of my brother’s backyard after Katrina paid South Florida a visit. Some in that area of Davie/Ft. Lauderdale went without power for almost two days. My brother still has not had his phone service restored. I was able to call my Dad though. Of course, compared to what Lousiana [...]

Making your filenames work in Linux

Saturday, August 27th, 2005

So I am in the middle of porting the NYC Smalltalk servers to CentOS. One of the issues that I ran into is that in Windows I setup the “start in” directory for the images (VisualWorks images i.e not gifs, etc) that I launch to be the directory where the image resides. In Linux I [...]

[Presentation] SUnits and Test Driven Development

Wednesday, August 24th, 2005

Joseph Pelrine will be presenting at NYC Smalltalk on September 14th. Same place same time. A post in comp.lang.smalltalk and the NYC Smalltalk yahoo groups will follow. It will also be announced on our wiki shortly. Anyhow here’s the heads up, it should be an interesting presentation.
Abstract:
Rarely have 3 classes and a handful of [...]

CentOS

Sunday, August 21st, 2005

Its late and I’m tired but I had decided a while back that I was going to port my servers to CentOS and tonite’s the night, everything is going to be all right. Well let’s hope. The cd is cranking but it seems sluggish in taking me through the graphical installation wizard. Ok, it is [...]