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And 100 other covers, via Coudal
This is sick—and I’m not normally one for such phraseology.
We shouldn’t be thinking that it’s okay to be doing something which isn’t great.
-Ed Catmull, via Waffle
Scala and Haskell are never referenced, but it’s pretty clear that he’s comparing Scala’s Actors to Haskell’s pure, side-effect-free, functional programming.
Brackets are growing on me, more and more.
If you have a page that scrolls infinitely, don’t put any worthwhile links in your footer.
VMWare 2.0.6 and Hudson CI interaction on Mac OS X 10.6
The setup
I was running Hudson inside Tomcat 6 on Snow Leopard, and I had VMWare running some Linux VMs.
The problem
Hudson worked fine, but during certain situations, such as JUnit test cases that accessed the network, or post-build svn and Capistrano scripts, the following error message would appear:
could not lookup DNS configuration info service: (ipc/send) invalid destination port.
The solution
Eventually, I found this thread, which lead me to disabling the VMWare kernel extensions:
sudo /Library/Application\ Support/VMware\ Fusion/boot.sh --stop
I restarted Hudson, and everything works.
The conclusion
Google didn’t help me much with this problem, so it must not be that common a setup. But, if you have one big Mac Pro that you’re using as a testing and integration host, you might find yourself running into similar issues.
Grid-based WordPress theme, with color-scheme.
There’s always a bigger fish.
Blue Cheese and Butternut Squash Pizza
Two butternut squash arrived in the box this week. I’m planning to make another batch of gnocchi with one of them (with better results, I hope). And last night, the other squash found its way onto a pizza, of all things. One of our favorite pizzas is the “Blue October” from Zing Pizza in Porter Square. It’s a thin, crispy crust, covered in creamy butternut squash and topped with spinach, caramelized onions, and blue and mozzarella cheeses. As one Yelp reviewer says, it’s “Heaven on a plate.” Given that we had all the ingredients on hand, I figured why not make our own version. The crust recipe is really easy and my mini-tribute to Gourmet, found in their July 2009 issue.
Butternut Squash Spread: Peel and cube one medium sized squash. In a glass casserole, mix with 1TB olive oil and 2 cloves of garlic, roughly chopped. Bake at 400 degrees for 30 minutes. Purée squash in food processor with 1 Tb olive oil and 1 tsp salt. (You could also mix in thyme or red pepper flakes at this point). If the mixture is too dry, you may also add water in very small amounts.
Mini opensource-OCR software review conclusion
The podium, in order of perceived accuracy:
