Notes on Life, ‘Puters and Hawaii
I wanted to try out stacked git for maintaining patches. Here is how I did it on my mac.
git clone http://homepage.ntlworld.com/cmarinas/stgit.git
cd stgit
git checkout -b stable origin/stable
sudo python setup.py install –prefix=/usr/local
Here is some resources to get started using stacked git.
StGit Home Page
StGit Tutorial
Crash Course
Posted on April 5th, 2008 by dysinger
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JRuby, the awesome Java meets Ruby project, has been released and tagged as 1.1. This is really good news. Thanks should be patted on the backs of each JRuby developer for this milestone. If you haven’t checked JRuby out, now is the time.
Here is the announcement http://docs.codehaus.org/display/JRUBY/2008/04/05/JRuby+1.1+Released
Posted on April 5th, 2008 by dysinger
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Don’t even try opening a online business bank account at E-Trade. I finally got my business bank accounts open….. After a month of hassling with E-Trade I got Bank of America to open my accounts in less than an hour.
Here is the story: E-Trade messed up the account application. We had to [...]
Posted on April 4th, 2008 by dysinger
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Rails-core announced yesterday that they are moving to Git source control hosted at github. Github is this really nice social-networking-meets-source-control site that helps support developers using Git help each other. It’s hard to explain but it is just awesome. It’s like Linked-In or Facebook for open-source developers using Git.
There was a lot [...]
Posted on April 3rd, 2008 by dysinger
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Most of the time in git you will be creating branches of your main project and working on them. What if you wanted to create a ‘documentation’ branch or something? It doesn’t really deserve it’s own repository because it’s so closely related. The git project repository does this. The git project [...]
Posted on March 31st, 2008 by dysinger
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Amazon released their new EC2 API today.
The big news: You can have static IP addresses now. You can pick the data center where your machine instance is launched. Cool!
The minor news: Lots of little things were updated. They added tmpfs to the list of LOCAL_FS_TYPES so ubuntu volume images work without [...]
Posted on March 28th, 2008 by dysinger
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Ever since I read Martin Fowler’s article on rollerskating and shared it with my partner in crime, we have been using the term and practice liberally. Fowler describes a customer service web form that a guy he knew put together. This customer service form wasn’t quite ready for the internets yet but they [...]
Posted on March 24th, 2008 by dysinger
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I scored a hotel for two weeks in Portland by the airport for $7/night! Woot! What a score.
Posted on March 22nd, 2008 by dysinger
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Update: I need to upgrade this for amazon ec2 2008-02-01 api.
I been playing with Gentoo again. I hadn’t been an active Gentoo user since it pissed me off in a emerge -u world snafu in 2004. I created some Gentoo EC2 images and thought I would share with you all.
I have recently stopped [...]
Posted on March 4th, 2008 by dysinger
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Amazon web-services has some trouble for a few hours this morning, causing the blogs to burst with criticism. I say plan for outages - they happen. Read the SLAs. Do your homework and come up with a plan for the following:
Back up! Back up your Xen EC2 images hourly/nightly/weekly - whatever makes [...]
Posted on February 15th, 2008 by dysinger
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