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Monthly Archives: September 2008

Ruby DCamp: October 11-12 - Washington, DC

Ruby DCamp is coming up on October 11 and 12 in Washington, DC. It will be an unconference, which means that the participants will drive the event.
It has a big emphasis on participation from Rubyists of all levels, whether new or experienced. DCamp is being planned by some very involved people in the [...]

Who Threw the Second Punch?

On the way into the office this morning, I was reading two different things. These two quotes seemed to pull at me:
a. “But my wise old aunt Selma, now 91, often reminds me that the sins of omission are greater than the sins of commission, and that the greatest evils in the world, like mass [...]

Fixing /etc/profile

The “traditional” way of setting up paths in *nix bash environments is to use the ~/.profile file. However, I recently read about /etc/paths and /etc/paths.d and wanted to give them a try. I tried rearranging /etc/paths to look like this:
/usr/local/bin
/usr/bin
/bin
/usr/sbin
/sbin
Then I restarted my Terminal and inspected the path. No change. That’s strange. My principle of least [...]