mux is now available on RubyForge! 11/06/2006 @ 5:13PM

I took some time this weekend to clean up mux. I did a bit of refactoring to pull apart the command line tool from the guts. There's some more work to be done, and I think I'd like to sort of library-ize this to provide an easy way to get 'super-tee' kind of functionality into other tools. I also wrote a quick-n-dirty test suite to keep me honest, and this will evolve as I continue to refactor and redesign the internals of mux. I packaged all this up as mux-0.0.1 and released it on RubyForge here in tgz, zip, and gem format. So, mux is now installable via RubyGems:

# gem install mux

To quote Borat, "Is nice!"

BillMonk 10/18/2006 @ 1:01PM

Just heard about this site, billmonk.com, on the Ruby On Rails Podcast. It's a neat way to track small debts (dinners, drinks) among friends, as well as shared bills and "stuff" that you've borrowed or loaned. They have a fairly rich interface available for text messaging, which I think is one of the big things that makes apps like this work really well. Go sign up so you can owe me money!!!

Introducing mux - tee(1) on crack. 08/29/2006 @ 11:54PM

This is a re-write of a dinky little C program I wrote a few years ago called mpipe. After having hacked together mpipe, I found that mtee had already been written and was considerably more robust than mpipe was.

Tonight, I wrote mux.

As much as anything else, this was an excuse to write something in Ruby, which I've been wanting to dig into a bit more. However, this is a pretty handy tool. Before I was aware of mtee, my idea for this came out of wanting to send incoming email down more than one pipeline from a .qmail file.