I'd hopped I would get by without having to learn the mysteries of Bison and how to build parsers. Unfortunately parsecvs uses it to grok the CVS files. Someone has added some new binary files into the CVS tree and it's causing parsecvs to go into a death spiral of …

I've been doing some prototyping recently in Python as an experiment. The idea being I can mock up a simple app with GUI with minimal effort and of course learning new languages is fun. A big driver is that it's not perl. An awful lot of perl is implicit based …

I've been playing with emacsclient in an effort to make things like editing blog entries faster by re-using existing emacs sessions. It's almost doing what I want it to do but there doesn't seem to be a way of checking if there is already a server running withing emacs itself …

Yesterday was the first full day of the Cambridge Folk Festival. There was a slight delay to getting there as Mufi and TJ had been held up by one of those rare M6 accidents. However once they arrived we took the very environmentally friendly bus to the site.

It's a …

I've been using screen more and more out of habit recently. I used to use a lot of tabs in Gnome Terminal on each project I'm working on. Now I run one terminal per project with a screen session for all the sub-sections. It seemed a good time to revisit …