links for 2008-03-07

• A better “try()” for Ruby, why not do the Groovy way?
  (tags: ruby programming)
• Pipe Viewer
  A terminal-based tool for monitoring the progress of data through a pipeline. It can be inserted into any normal pipeline between two processes to give a visual indication of how quickly data is passing through, how long it has taken, how near to completi
  (tags: linux sysadmin)