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+Linux Format, Alonzo's Linux magazine of choice, has a +brief article about Raggle in issue 65 +(April 2005). They seemed to like it. Guess I'd better fix the UTF-8 +munging bug before anyone notices (actually, it's fixed in CVS). I scanned the +review — if you're intereste, you can check it out here. +

+ +

+Side projects, side projects. A couple weeks ago, I submitted a patch +which adds OpenSSL-based package signing for +RubyGems. A patch against RubyGems 0.8.10 is available here (signature). I also +wrote up some fairly detailed documentation. It's included in the +patch, and also here. +

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+Overall I like the OpenSSL support in +Ruby, although I've managed to +uncover a couple of gremlins along the way, most notably missing methods +in the PKCS12 and ASN1 modules. The single +biggest problem though, is the lack of documentation; it's even more +sparse than the OpenSSL documentation. +I've done enough crypto stuff that I was able to slog through it, but +this is just ridiculous. It's 2005. RDoc exists for a reason — +use it. I'll resist the urge to comment on the lack of decent RDoc documentation, because I +think pragdave has earned a few gold +stars. You know, for that whole Pickaxe thing. +

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+The #gah people page now has an +XML-RPC +interface, which allows you to (say), quickly build a blogroll of +IRC people, find people +in your state, or whatever other pathological idea you can come up with. +Full API +documentation (including the XML-RPC +endpoint) is available here. +

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+Speaking of web pages, I really really like the final designs +on the Ruby-Lang 2005 +Redesign Blog. The current ruby-lang.org is kind of +an eye-sore, so the sooner they replace it, the better. +

+ +

+On the nifty software front, I've been playing with OpenVPN and Monotone. The former is +absolutely incredible; it's easy as piss to configure, completely +customizable, fast, uses OpenSSL-based +X509 certs for identification (both client and server), and as Windows +support. Did I mention it's easy to configure, too? I've been using an +OpenVPN to tunnel from my laptop to my file server for the last couple +of weeks so I can mount my NFS exports read-write over wireless. +

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+As for Monotone, it looks +really promising, but it's unbelievably slow. Actually, "ridiculously, +horribly, unbearably slow" might be more apt. I know they're working on +speed, so in a couple of months, I'm sure things will be bearable. Once +that happens, I may seriously consider switching over... +

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+Oh yeah, Raggle. Work continues on the +0.4 branch. the next stable release (0.4.1) will have the Unicode +munging behaving properly (hopefully), and a configurable bookmark +system. If I get harassed enough, that might be within the next few +weeks :). +

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+As for the development version of Raggle... Well, that's where all the fun +is. Here's a high-level diagram of the various components: +

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+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
Next-Gen Raggle
Engine (Squaggle)Interface
Synapse (libsynapse)SQLite3-RubyConsoleWeb
libfeedCurlSQLiteSQLiteProfanityWEBrick
libptimeexpat   Curses
+ Legend +
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  •     Written in Ruby
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  •     Written in C
    • +
  •     External Dependency
    • +
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+What's new? Profanity has been +added to the diagram, and Squaggle has a new +dependency, Synapse. Synapse +is a C-level library that wraps Curl +and libfeed. This +arrangement has a whole lot of advantages; here's a handful of them: +

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+I could keep going, but I just saw the time. I've got to take a look at +picard's busted hard drive (yeah, another one), and check +on kylie's fancy new off-site backups (thanks, Alonzo!). Be sure to check out Sean's article, "How I Implemented +Tags". +

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