Programming on General Ramblings

What if programming languages were designed for AI, not humans

Fri, 13 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

What if programming languages were designed for AI, not humans?

A few weeks ago I saw a post on social media -- someone asking whether it was time to create a programming language designed for consumption by code assistants. Not for humans to write, but for AI to generate and humans to verify.

I couldn't stop thinking about it.

Every programming language I use was designed for humans to write. Python optimizes for readability. Rust optimizes for safety. JavaScript optimizes for getting something on screen fast. They all assume a human is typing the code.

Better Late Than Never: Announcing Ramble, A Nomad Job & Pack Registry

Wed, 07 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Back in 2021, I had an idea. What if there was a better way to share and discover Nomad job files and Nomad Packs? What if we could make it as easy to find a production-ready Nomad configuration as it is to find a Docker image? We needed a helm like repository for Nomad

That idea became Ramble -- Github Repo.

Today, after multiple restarts, countless refactorings, and a journey that taught me Go from the ground up, I'm finally ready to share it.

Meteor User Seed

Mon, 10 Nov 2014 17:11:46 +0000

I have been trying to build a site with Meteor and have slowly started getting stuff working.

One of the ways to populate your development data has been with database seeding.

I wanted to link a user account with a document in one of my collections so I worked this out from the documentation.

You add users to the users collection this returns the userId for the new user which you capture in a variable that you use to insert the userId into your second collection.

Quest NDS Migrator LogFile Parser

Fri, 18 May 2012 22:16:52 +0000

I am currently helping a customer migrate from Novell to Microsoft and they are using the Quest migrator product to move their data to new DFS servers.

They currently have a large amount of data stored on a number of volumes. The sheer number of volumes and data have required that they deploy a large number of the copy engine servers.

The copy engine does not utilize a central logging facility, it stores the logfiles in a folder alongside the copy engine.

Bongo Admin UI Images

Mon, 09 Jan 2012 17:46:49 +0000

I have uploaded some images of the new UI so you can see what it looks like without installing it.

Please let me know what you think.

Images

Building the new Bongo Admin UI

Mon, 09 Jan 2012 14:10:09 +0000

A while ago Alex (so_solid_moo to the IRC channel) created a php binding for the Bongo API. He also created the start of the new UI that we are working towards.

We started with the admin ui for now as we have created a user interface with the roundcube project that Alex also integrated with.

I stared porting the current Dragonfly assets into the project and I tried to stick to the old design style as much as possible as I really loved it’s look and feel.

How to copy custom attributes when migrating vmware vcenter to new database

Tue, 27 Sep 2011 19:19:05 +0000

I recently had to move hosts and guests to a new vcenter server as the old server had become corrupt and full of issues.

The current vcenter has a few custom attributes and notes that would not be transferred as part of the move.

So I wanted to use powercli to read the attributes out and put them back.

To export the attributes I used the script below.

You will need to add as many Key Value pairs as you have custom attributes

Learning Ruby and rBongo with WeBongo

Tue, 08 Feb 2011 11:50:24 +0000

This post should have been written quite a while ago as I wanted to start documenting my efforts to learn to program using Ruby. As most of you know I have been trying for a while to teach myself to program.

I started my efforts with a course in c# at a company in London, the course was just great and the instructor was a fantastic guy. Unfortunately life meant I could not practice at all. I worked for a company for a year that gave me no opportunity to play during the day and having a newborn baby left my wife and I looking more like zombies that real people.

Mono Goings On

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:38:24 +0000

I too have been watching the Mono debate with some interest as I am in the process of creating a Mono API for the Bongo Store.

This interests me as I do not want to spend time working on something that will stop any distribution from running such a great app like Bongo.

What worries me more is the character assassination and blatant lie telling that has been going on to in some way justify what is being said by the Mono haters. I wholly agree with Alex's take on the subject you can find here. I think that this will have an affect on the community but I am not sure what affect it will be.

Update on the Bongo API

Sun, 10 May 2009 14:14:22 +0000

Quite some time ago I blogged about my efforts to create a mono API for the bongo store protocol, I have unfortunately been quite busy with my personal life and also at work so this has been neglected.

I have again been working on this and at the moment I am stuck trying to get the COLLECTIONS command to work.

Alex sent me his php API code that he was working on to help me out but unfortunately I am just not experienced enough to work this one out. I really want to get this working as I think it will be a great boost to the project as it will open the project to other coders and perhaps we could see some interesting work.