New update on the monstar.rb ruby script to monitor and restart scripts/apps upon file ctime changes.
Now a -e –exec switch allows any system script/app to be launched via Process.spawn(SCRIPT)
PID processes are killed via INT SIGNAL.
More on github monstar.rb repository.
(blogged from Vim)

Apple OSX Snow Leopard
System Version: Mac OS X 10.6.2
Kernel Version: Darwin 10.2.0
Install notes for PosgreSQL 8.4 install using the great
Homebrew by Adam Vandenberg.
Run the author’s installation script, and that’s it. Try:
$ brew help
$ brew search postgresql
$ brew install postgresql
==> Summary
/usr/local/Cellar/postgresql/8.4.2: 2297 files, 31M, built in 3.3 minutes
$ brew info postgresql
postgresql 8.4.2
My advice ? Use Homebrew. True UNIX […]

Last saturday the local Linux group, PortoLinux had a meeting at the engineering faculty of Porto University to discuss about usage of diferent SCM’s.
Main systems covered, centralized vs distributed:
- Subversion
- Git
It was a good tech event, spent a good time there.
Some photos here.

3 or 4 new projects ahead.
One of them will be  CouchDB and Merb (no DataMapper, no ActiveRecord). The db schema is modeled by each user and upon criteria decisions.
All of them Git managed, as been doing for the last year.
Served by a Debian based Linux distro, coded under Debian, UNR (my lovely little netbook), and […]

Some things are pure smartness: Gist integrated with Vim by the use of vimscript for gist by Yasuhiro Matsumoto.
For reference:
:[from],[to] Gist -p # post lines (from, to) to gist privatelly
:[from],[to] Gist # post lines (from, to) to public gist
:Gist [xxxxx] # edit […]