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I’ve been completely fed up with news/feed/rss/atom readers these days. I use Linux as my primary operating system, and I only have a few feeds that I want to rip through quick so I can get to reading the content. Yet, trying to find a reader that doesn’t suck donkey balls has been a chore.

2008-06-21

Wanna know what all the Ruby vulnerabilities are? Or at least have a fun look at how to search through code for clues? It’s a blast.

2008-06-13

I’m dropping a large blog post on everyone to just say that I haven’t died, I’ve just been busy working on my book for A/W about Mongrel. I had contracted with them to do a book about deploying Mongrel, but then decided it wouldn’t be a very good book since we’d already done one about that topic and there wasn’t too much more to say.

GIG—GUI Generator for FOX

I really like the FOX GUI Toolki which is probably the very best C++ GUI toolkit out there. It has a rich set of components, a really good component messaging (that doesn’t require separate slow ass compiles like Qt MOC), reasonable APIs, simple GUI construction, and a reasonable look. It’s also missing a GUI builder. I whipped up GIG while working on something else (since dead) so that I could generate my GUIs. GIG is also dead, but when it was working it used Lua to build and generate the FOX code needed to implement a GUI. I found I could crank out a FOX GUI really quick with it. Alas, like most of my projects it fell into bit rot.

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