There is plenty of documentation that comes with the Ode software, but Rob Reed has written a lot more about how the Ode blogging system works.

If you get everything you know about programming languages from Twitter, Reddit or blogs, you might miss that there are fascinating things in every programming language, old and new.

Or at least they're fascinating to me (or you) at any given moment.

My semester of programming at LA Valley College was heaving on using loops of all kinds, but we didn't get to separating things via functions or object-orientation.

I'm trying in my own code (currently Ruby) to make things more modular with blocks, some taking arguments and others not, and using classes is something I'm trying to wrap my head around.

I was reading one of my Java books (Sedgewick and Wayne's Computer Science) where the authors say in the long Chapter 2 (they're all long chapters) that separating operations into distinct functions is something programmers should strive to do.

It's the idea of organizing the code, and the ways the various languages allow (or maybe encourage you to do that) that I find fascinating at the moment.

Using Vim in my project has really helped my skills in that editor. That's what working with a couple dozen small Vim files per day will do for you.

I had to ssh into a server yesterday and set up a small script and a cron job, and I could feel how different that process was now that I can do more with Vim.

I can move around in files much more easily, and I know the basics of copy/move/paste, which is more than I could say before.

Clojure is trying to push me in the Emacs direction, and maybe I could get comfortable with that editor, but the universality of Vim/Vi is hard to ignore.

There's a random \n in my BlogPoster script. It doesn't show up all the time, but there are circumstances where it appears in the final output.

Am I inadvertently inserting it, or will I have to chomp it out? That is the question.

Update: I figured out where the random \n was being inserted, and I was able to .chomp it out in Ruby.

I'm not sure exactly why the random \n was being inserted. It could be in the editing operation of the file (I hope not, because that complicates things), or in the conversion of the edited file back to a Ruby variable.

According to its web page, "Reason lets you write simple, fast and quality type safe code while leveraging both the JavaScript & OCaml ecosystems."

Often called reasonml, it is based on OCaml, is integrated with NPM and compiles to JavaScript.

The language is a Facebook-sponsored project, so it's marketing is pretty good, plus it works in some way with FB's React JavaScript framework.

Two good places to start are the What & Why and Community pages.