http://blog.golden-ratio.net ... of programming, life, math and all the rest Sun, 01 Nov 2009 16:05:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Finally the 1st of November has arrived, the first day of Nanowrimo. Up till today it has been a lot of fun plotting the story and seeing how it has changed during the process. The biggest change is that I first planned for the story to take place a couple ... http://blog.golden-ratio.net/2009/11/first-day-of-nanowrimo/ The newest version of Ubuntu was just released, so I decided to do a fresh install on my laptop. Yesterday I installed a fresh copy of Xubuntu on my laptop. I opted to go for Xubuntu instead of the default Ubuntu since I'm going to try out a tiling window ... http://blog.golden-ratio.net/2009/10/alternate-xubuntu-encryption-and-install-problems/ Recently I've taken it upon myself to learn Haskell. I haven't had much time lately to work on programming projects at home, so I felt it was time to start something again. I decided to learn Haskell since I've never truly learnt a functional programming language. I've tried some functional ... http://blog.golden-ratio.net/2009/10/starting-with-haskell/ Seems that Aion has been a pretty successful start. At least if you can measure success in queue length. When I got home from work yesterday I was greeted by the follow message: Almost 3000 people waiting to log on?! I thought the old World of Warcraft queues where bad when ... http://blog.golden-ratio.net/2009/10/queues-and-easier-flight-in-aion/ It is just over one month left until this year's big writing adventure begins. I'm thinking about NaNoWriMo, or National Novel Writing Month as it is acutally called. I've never entered before, but I've thought about it a couple of times. First it was too close to my final exams, ... http://blog.golden-ratio.net/2009/09/preparations-begin-for-nanowrimo/ My newest interest in computer gaming is Aion. World of Warcraft is still enjoyable, but it has become a little bit stale lately so I decided to try something new. I only had time to test Aion for a couple of hours during the open beta, so logging into the ... http://blog.golden-ratio.net/2009/09/aion-first-impressions/ Almost ten months have passed since the last post here. Winter, spring and summer gone. I've thought about restarting the blog countless times during that period. Either continuing where I left off with a blog focused solely on Linux and computer programming, or broadening the horizon of the blog to ... http://blog.golden-ratio.net/2009/09/ressurection/ In a previous blog post about organization of ssh connections I introduced SSHMenu. SSHMenu started out as a way to organize SSH connections in a panel applet in GNOME, and that origin is still clear when you use it - even if you use the non-GNOME version. Edit on 8th of ... http://blog.golden-ratio.net/2008/12/simplifying-everyday-use-of-ssh/ In an earlier post I wrote about how to use Ctags with Vim. Unfortunately ctags doesn't support PHP 5 yet. The creators of ctags anticipated a scenario of unknown languages, so they made it easy to customize the parsing behaviour. A blog post about a similar solution can be ... http://blog.golden-ratio.net/2008/11/ctags-for-php-5/ An important feature that all modern IDEs have is the ability to go directly to the definition of a function, or class, from where it is used. This feature is naturally available in Vim as well. Vim doesn't have any built-in project feature, so an external program has to be ... http://blog.golden-ratio.net/2008/09/using-ctags-with-vim/