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27-08-08

Forcing Carbon Emacs to use MacPorts aspell

If you want Carbon Emacs and aspell from MacPorts to cooperate, you'll have to jump through some hoops. This is because Carbon Emacs tries to be way too smart, by including options to automatically download extra dictionaries. However, it doesn't supply that for my own language, Dutch. Luckily, MacPorts contains a package providing that dictionary, but accessing that was somewhat cumbersome.

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Jasper Spaans

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19-08-08

disintermediation ftw!

As the tap in my kitchen water heater is leaking I set out to find some new parts for that thing. First try: last weekend, I went to a high-profile plumbing store (that shall not be named), and they were not able to help me as I hadn't brought the old parts, and they had no knowledge of my particular water heater. A more general parts store nearby also did not have my parts.

So, this morning, I disassembled my tap (after stocking some water), and set out to buy the wanted parts. The parts store did not have anything in stock, however, after showing my old tap to the plumber he went through some drawers and found a complete tap - costing €27.50. I was needing two, so that would have set me back €55. That's a ridiculous amount of money for solving a problem that can be solved by replacing two pieces of rubber.

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14-08-08

my first open source grok app, TempThing

I decided to write a small application using Grok today, to manage the random stuff I drop onto my personal site every now and then. The goal was to make a simple application which allows you to upload files, and set an expiry date, after which the data should disappear from the public internet again.

This was quite easily done, and adding an index view and some management view also was a piece of cake. Enjoy the result at http://jasper.es/temp/ , and you can find the source in my personal subversion repository at http://secure.jasper.es/svn/tempthing/trunk/

Even though it's a really trivial app, I like it, as it shows you how easy it is to make nice forms with cool widgets using megrok.form, and also how to use the associated blob storage thing.

Did you know that I spent most of my time on drawing a nice header image using Gimp?