Posted by Andrew
Fri, 24 Feb 2006 06:49:00 GMT
DHH, creator of Rails gushes about his new MacBook
For myself, I recently retired my dinosaur G3 iBook in favor of a last generation 15” PowerBook G4. I’m happy with that, and happy for all you guys with the big bucks who can enjoy the brand new toys.
Posted in Mac OS X | Tags macosx | 2 comments | 1 trackback
Posted by Andrew
Thu, 23 Feb 2006 23:42:00 GMT
Karl (age 9): ” ‘obese’, what does that mean?”
Lydia (age 12): “It means you hit every corner you turn.”
Posted in 127.0.0.1 | Tags family, humor | 2 comments | no trackbacks
Posted by Andrew
Tue, 21 Feb 2006 23:03:00 GMT
With the recent publicity of Mac-targeted viruses, worms and other malicious critters, Macphiles should be aware of the inherent danger of going on Safari. There are really big and mean critters out there waiting to pounce…
Read about it
It’s good to know we have other very good options, like Camino
Posted in Mac OS X | Tags macosx, Safari, security | 1 comment | no trackbacks
Posted by Andrew
Thu, 16 Feb 2006 00:47:00 GMT
Best practices for running Instiki
Initial setup – prerequisites
- Download and install Ruby 1.8.2. In all our experience, later versions of Ruby break Instiki. You can download the source from ruby-lang.org . We recommend building from source (tar zxvf, cd to dir, ./configure, make, make install), though you can certainly install ruby with any of the various package managers out there.
- Download and install rubygems . tar zxvf the file, cd into the dir, and run `ruby setup.rb`
- run `gem install instiki—include-dependencies`. Besides Ruby 1.8.2, the current Instiki (0.10.2) needs Rails 0.13.1, not higher. A very nice thing about gem is that you can have multiple versions of packages, e.g. Rails 1.0.0 and 0.13.1 installed, and different ruby gems and apps just seem to know what they need.
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Posted in Ruby on Rails, System Admin | Tags howto, instiki, rubyonrails, sysadmin, wiki | no comments | no trackbacks
Posted by Andrew
Wed, 08 Feb 2006 22:37:00 GMT
Subversion source control management is a big improvement over CVS. But newcomers often ask, “yes, but how do I set up a live website with SVN?”
Here is the step by step procedure.
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Posted in Subversion | Tags howto, subversion | 1 comment | no trackbacks
Posted by Andrew
Wed, 08 Feb 2006 19:45:00 GMT
The Subversion Book published by O’Reilly is a good manual and reference on the practical day to day use of Subversion. But what’s even better, the entire text is accessible online for free.
Posted in Subversion | Tags howto, subversion | no comments
Posted by Andrew
Wed, 08 Feb 2006 03:40:00 GMT
This week is the famed Demo Conference in Phoenix Arizona. There our good friends at Sprout are unleashing their debut Ruby on Rails app, Mailroom. Sign up for a free account and check it out!
Posted in Ruby on Rails, Tech Talk | Tags rubyonrails, sprout | 3 comments | no trackbacks
