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Alef Arendsen ponders on whether to switch from Ant to a Ruby build tool. At Lecando we just this week finished migrating away from a Ruby based build system we called Raven. Our former employee HÃ¥kan speaks in his blog entry from way back then about the enthusiasm we shared. Of course, Håkan speaks of our migration from Maven, the build tool from hell of which one should not speak.

So we’ve now gone full circle - Ant - Maven - Raven - Ant. So what happened and why?

Whew! I just spent 2,5 hours converting my old B2Evolution blog to WordPress. I have been planning to do this for ages, but I just never got around to it. The idea was to switch hosting providers at the same time but I had a hard time finding something I liked. Then one of the pragmatic guys mentioned TextDrive and that was love at first sight.

Converting was not that straightforward until I found this. Thanks a lot.

Testing to blog from BloGTK. I’m not sure that I really see the point of this. It maybe good for off line use, but then I’d probably use JEdit and save it as a .txt file anyway. Oh well.

From BOFH:

“Yeah, academics and beancounters are the worst for this sort of thing. Somewhere in their brain they believe that just because they USE a computer means they’re somehow gifted in that area.” “How?” “Well it’s a bit like the people who had the first flush toilets - They thought they were somehow a plumbing specialist when in actual fact they were just crap dispensers.”

I have been using Gnome 2.8 for a couple of weeks now, and I must say that it is getting really good. Gnome was the first window manager I used when I started using Linux, but I soon became hooked on more lightweight alternatives such as Fluxbox and XFce4, as I did not think that Gnome offered that much to compensate for its relative slowness.

But since I got my laptop, I have grown tired of having to do everything manually whenever the environment changes. And with the advent of Ubuntu it is really a snap.

My old 3Com Prism54 card for some reason did not work anymore on Linux. I finally gave in a bought a new MadWifi one which worked out of the box. Sweet!

It’s not that often that I get to say “told you so” - ask my wife, coworkers or basically anybody - but I found this old blogentry mentioning Phoenix, now better known as Firefox.

Told you so.

Having two kids does limit blogging quite substantially. I still managed to upgrade to the latest and greatest version of b2evolution tonight which took quite a while. I managed to screw up the db upgrade, and when I tried restarting it choked on all table modifications and creations. So I had to step through all of the scripts and comment out all sql that flunked. PHP is quite unreadable really.

It was my colleague Håkan Råberg who coined this the other day. Quite insightful I think. I mean, you can play Tetris in them both.

My colleague Jimmy and I spent a lunch the other day discussing client application GUI editors. We both agreed that the ones we know suck quite majorly since they create code can’t be touched, does not allow for any sort of creative programming etcetera. On the other hand, it is quite handy to see the GUI develop - not that the result always looks like the one drawn though.

So instead he made the case that you should have a window continuously rendering the code you’re writing. Sort of like seeing the GUI develop while you code instead of watching the code die while you draw the application GUI.