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Monthly Archives: February 2009

If YAML.dump can’t produce valid YAML…

Yesterday I had fun with ruby’s YAML module not loading a piece of YAML I needed it to load. Syntax Error… fine–all in a day’s work. But then I started looking at the YAML in question and I realized, this was GENERATED by the module itself!

A Quick Introduction to Makefiles

Today at the Marquette Student ACM meeting, I gave a short presentation (PDF) about development on Linux.  Specifically using Makefiles.  As promised I have uploaded it to this site and I will give a little more information in this post.