Notes on Life, ‘Puters and Hawaii
Update: Tim Harper points out in the comments there is now a fairly up to date OS X installer at google code if you would rather not deal with building it yourself. Easy! (You’ll still want to do the configuration part at the end of this article, though, using the scripts starting at [...]
Posted on December 30th, 2007 by dysinger
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Use svnsync to make copies of your repository. You can set up a cron job to do the last part ’svnsync sync’ to keep it up to date each day too.
export LOCAL=~/some/new/svnrepo
svnadmin create $LOCAL
echo ‘#!/bin/sh’ > $LOCAL/hooks/pre-revprop-change
chmod +x $LOCAL/hooks/pre-revprop-change
svnsync init file://$LOCAL svn://some/remote/repo
svnsync sync file://$LOCAL
Posted on December 30th, 2007 by dysinger
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Playing with my son on Lego NXT requires me to get Ruby in the mix just for fun. Here is the install notes that I used to get everything going. Once you get the communication working, you may want to install the ruby gem ’statemachine’ and learn that too. It’s useful for [...]
Posted on December 29th, 2007 by dysinger
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You need XCode and libgd installed and then the following script should work pasted into a terminal window:
cd /tmp
curl http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_src_R12B-2.tar.gz | tar xz
cd otp_src_R12B-2
./configure –enable-smp-support –enable-hipe –enable-darwin-universal
# If you see an ODBC warning don’t sweat it
make
sudo make install
cd ..
Posted on December 20th, 2007 by dysinger
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I have been using Apple’s default Mail.app client as a front-end to my new domain’s email provider, “The Goog” apps. I find it to be really a good client and I have no complaints. One thing to remember is to, after you have the mail account configured as IMAP, go in and high-light [...]
Posted on December 20th, 2007 by dysinger
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You have to try out these two new services. It will alter your life - we’ll maybe - it is altering mine.
I Want Sandy! a free personal assistant to help you track to-dos, remind you of your calendar at the right times, remind other people about things, keep track of people, etc. It [...]
Posted on December 20th, 2007 by dysinger
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Ruby and Rails comes on Leopard. Yahoo! That’s great. Oh wait, it’s a slightly out of date Ruby 1.8.6 and Rails 1.2.3. Hmm It’s owned by root too and you might fsck it up walking around as sudo all the time. So… Here you go. Make sure you have XCode 3.0 installed and then open [...]
Posted on December 19th, 2007 by dysinger
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Amazon announced SDB late last week. I have been using it under NDA for a bit and have written a Ruby API for it. I have opened up a RubyForge project to deposit the code and will be doing so in the upcoming days.
There has been a lot of chatter on the internets [...]
Posted on December 17th, 2007 by dysinger
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A handy tip for all you Mac OS X users out there: Have servers to deal with over SSH? You can download and install MacFUSE and SSHFS. Once you have installed both, you can fire up the SSHFS app. Â SSHFS can mount a remote server as a local drive on your [...]
Posted on December 15th, 2007 by dysinger
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Rails 2.0 was released friday and it’s already been patched to 2.0.1 over the weekend. I’ve been on edge (pun intended!) so long it will be nice to freeze to a release for a while.
Posted on December 9th, 2007 by dysinger
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