I have recently downloaded and installed a blob of software called "InstantRails" which is a combination of Ruby, PHP, Apache and MySql, which in themselves consist of a bunch of other sub-blobs of helper software.
So far it has gone smoothly, although I was a little puzzled at first how to mix my own Web pages and CGI programs in with that stuff, making yet another "super-blob" of software. Also, since I was using Apache2.0 before this InstantRails thing, and it uses Apache1.x, I'm hoping that the next Rails release will use Apache2.0 instead.
Now that I have all the stuff running, I have about double the number of source files of various software packages than before, which makes my own Fuzzy Indexing products even more valuable to me, which greatly enhances my poor brain's ability to find stuff in that great ocean of data on my XP hard drives.
Anyway, it all works together now, so in addition to this Blog I have my HouseWideWeb Blog too, made from the "Typo" blogging interface implemented in InstantRails.
I really like the editor SciTE which handles almost every source file I can imagine and some I never heard of. (Too bad Cobol guys, not for you! But they do handle Fortran.)
I also have Python stuff, other Ruby stuff, Gnu c++ stuff, OCR'd text files, HTML and Javascript files galore, PDFs and Docs, etc, etc, and the Fuzzy Indexer still hums away.
I wonder, though, how can people learn so many programming and scripting languages, object oriented cgi methods, yada yada, without forgetting how to go to the bathroom?
So far it has gone smoothly, although I was a little puzzled at first how to mix my own Web pages and CGI programs in with that stuff, making yet another "super-blob" of software. Also, since I was using Apache2.0 before this InstantRails thing, and it uses Apache1.x, I'm hoping that the next Rails release will use Apache2.0 instead.
Now that I have all the stuff running, I have about double the number of source files of various software packages than before, which makes my own Fuzzy Indexing products even more valuable to me, which greatly enhances my poor brain's ability to find stuff in that great ocean of data on my XP hard drives.
Anyway, it all works together now, so in addition to this Blog I have my HouseWideWeb Blog too, made from the "Typo" blogging interface implemented in InstantRails.
I really like the editor SciTE which handles almost every source file I can imagine and some I never heard of. (Too bad Cobol guys, not for you! But they do handle Fortran.)
I also have Python stuff, other Ruby stuff, Gnu c++ stuff, OCR'd text files, HTML and Javascript files galore, PDFs and Docs, etc, etc, and the Fuzzy Indexer still hums away.
I wonder, though, how can people learn so many programming and scripting languages, object oriented cgi methods, yada yada, without forgetting how to go to the bathroom?
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