Chomping in Emacs

While working on Ezbl, I came to the terrifying realization that Emacs doesn't have a chomp-like function to strip leading and trailing whitespace from a string. After some searching, I found a solution, but it was kind of ugly (specifying the whitespace characters exactly rather than using a character class), so I modified it a bit. Here is my result:

Yo dawg

Yo dawg, I herd u liek Emacs, so I put an Emacs in ur Emacs so u can Emacs while u Emacs. For more information, check out my older Ezbl post. EDIT: See new Special Edition Emacs browser meme: Yo dawg, I herd u like Emacs in a browser, so I put a browser in ur Emacs so u can Emacs in ur browser in ur Emacs while u browse ur Emacs in ur browser.

The Mason's Dilemma

I just read Tim O'Reilly's Why Using ShopSavvy Might Not Be So Savvy, and have a few thoughts. The first of which is that I think that people will fail to see the connection between "Mason" and "Brick and Mortar" stores, which is largely a result of a sub-par title. "The Brick and Mortar Store's Dilemma" doesn't quite have the same ring, though.

Ezbl 0.3!!

After many long hours, I have finally reached a new milestone in the development of Ezbl! Check out the user-visible part of the changelog for version 0.3:

Ezbl updates

It has been a while since I last talked about Ezbl, my Emacs interface for the excellent Uzbl browser.