Recently I encountered a file which mostly contained UTF-8 characters. I could read the file and even throw it at Nokogiri and there was no problem. When I wanted to preprocess the content of the file with gsub ruby raised this Exception: invalid byte sequence in UTF-8 (ArgumentError) Now what to do? There aren’t many […]
Today the first SparkleShare beta for mac came out. SparkleShare is somehow very similar to dropbox but instead of being bound to one company, SparkleShare is based on git and therefor allows hosting your repositories on your own servers. I’ve been waiting for this release for because one of my colleagues is already using it […]
Currently I’m writing a couple of munin plugins at work and for certain components I need to parse log files to get out the numbers so munin can draw its graphs. My particular task is to parse a Pound log file and generate several custom graphs out of it and so the examples in this […]
After all those blogposts on how to build an LED cube it was time to actually do it. A few weeks ago I build a 4x4x4 cube. Although it is my goal to build a 8x8x8 or even larger cube, I still wanted another prototype to play around with. In case something goes wrong, I […]
DNS is one of the key ingredients of the internet and the world wide web. Without it you would have to type long numbers into the browsers address bar instead of convenient domain names like example.org. Humans seem to remember words better than numbers. In that sense, DNS is like the internets “phonebook”. To look […]