Notes on Life, ‘Puters and Hawaii
I’ve now spent a week in Kerry and Cork, Ireland. “Nil Gaeilge maith agam” (I don’t speak Irish so well). Ireland was not as fun as I thought it would be.  ( Pints of Cider and Guiness aside ) Seeing ancient rock formations was fun. You really get [...]
Posted on September 28th, 2007 by dysinger
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Git is a popular version control system designed to handle very large projects with speed and efficiency; it is used mainly for various open source projects, most notably the Linux kernel.
I needed to in install it on my mac because I want to follow the progress of Rubinius (a Ruby VM work in progress). [...]
Posted on September 21st, 2007 by dysinger
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RailsConf EU 2007 is over. I think my talk went well. It was an experiment. I think it definitely shows the power of RESTful controllers and the many MIME formats that can be used to communicate with a Rails app. The approach may be useful for integrating odd apps and other [...]
Posted on September 21st, 2007 by dysinger
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So I am here in Germany in the Capital, Berlin, for RailsConf 2007 EU. I am speaking on Wednesday. My talk is on hacking Rails to integrate team-members of many talents. A summary is here.
Yesterday, Sara, Jacob and I traveled via rail from Koblenz to Berlin. We checked into the [...]
Posted on September 17th, 2007 by dysinger
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I finally made it to Germany after about 20 hours of travel. I am staying in Koblenz for two days before going to Berlin. I had terrible jet lag because we lost about half a day of sun-light in transit. When we landed in Frankfurt, we caught the Euro-rail to Koblenz about [...]
Posted on September 14th, 2007 by dysinger
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OS X has this deep-sleep mode that will save all the contents of Ram to disk. They do this just in-case you forget to charge it and the battery drains. However this causes a long hibernation time (the time measure from the time you close the lid to the time you see the [...]
Posted on September 7th, 2007 by dysinger
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