Schadenfreude

I made myself an awesome wallet today.  It’s made of Red and Black duct tape I picked up at Home Depot.  I originally wanted a clear tape wallet to replace my old store-bought (I know, I know) duct tape wallet since it was super-bulky.  But, I decided that if I kept it minimal, it would work out well.  This post brought me to this post, and I set to work.

It was difficult to create the duct tape fabric, and I failed a few times, but I managed to get the thing together.  I butchered a fresh strawberry plastic container to create the translucent sleeve for my ID.  It holds a nice amount of junk for its size, and now I don’t have “clown pants,” as Kelsey called them with my old wallet.

Amazingly, my old wallet is as thick empty as the new one is full! I want to thank Chris Butler and Bre Pettis for the guidance.

More pictures are available on Flickr.

Uncategorized awesome, diy, duct tape, make, photos, project, wallet

I had some trouble compiling PL/Ruby for PostgreSQL today on Modzer0. I solved it with some clever extconf.rb switches:

ruby extconf.rb --with-pgsql-include=/usr/include/pgsql/ --with-pgsql-version=81

Now I avoid the problems I was having before:

[root@modzer0 plruby-0.5.1]# make
make[1]: Entering directory
#...
In function ‘perm_fmgr_info’:plruby.c:116: error: ‘TopMemoryContext’ undeclared (first use in this function)
plruby.c:116: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
plruby.c:116: error: for each function it appears in.)
plruby.c: In function ‘plruby_call_handler’:
plruby.c:706: warning: unused variable ‘result’
plruby.c: In function ‘pl_compile’:
plruby.c:875: error: subscripted value is neither array nor pointer
plruby.c:876: error: subscripted value is neither array nor pointer
plruby.c:879: error: subscripted value is neither array nor pointer
plruby.c:889: error: subscripted value is neither array nor pointer
plruby.c:937: error: ‘TopMemoryContext’ undeclared (first use in this function)
make[1]: *** [plruby.o] Error 1

Now I just have to create the language in Postgres. I’m making it trusted since I don’t want anyone doing anything nasty. I might build the untrusted version later like Robby did here.

CREATE FUNCTION plruby_call_handler() RETURNS language_handler
  AS '/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/i386-linux/plruby.so'
  LANGUAGE C;

CREATE TRUSTED LANGUAGE 'plruby'
  HANDLER plruby_call_handler
  LANCOMPILER 'PL/Ruby';

Voila!

Procedural Languages
  Name  | Trusted?
--------+----------
 plperl | yes
 plruby | yes

Uncategorized c, centos, linux, make, postgres, ruby

I decided today that I need to make a tutorial to build your own doomsday clock. After seeing this picture, I felt it was necessary:

Uncategorized make, project, tutorial