Shane Sveller
Somewhere between happy and total f**king wreck
Programming Goals: January-March
Jan 7th
Some things I’d love to accomplish in the next few months:
- Publish a simple jQuery plugin
- Publish a simple WordPress plugin, probably a widget
- Use MongoDB in a web app project
- Use Redis in a web app project
- Launch another website to the “public” (all 5 readers!)
- Write a simple web app using the Rails 3 beta
- Deploy a Rails app using the bundler gem
- Learn some basic C#
AT&T iPhone 3G versus Verizon Blackberry Curve
Dec 21st
Having used a Blackberry Curve 8330 on Verizon’s network for many months, I feel I can provide a fairly deep comparison between that and my new iPhone 3G.
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Google Chrome 0.2
Sep 12th
Redmine and Passenger bugfix
Aug 11th
Source: Redmine.org
For those of you who are running Redmine on Phusion Passenger, if you have certain versions of the RedCloth gem installed, you are in for some trouble.
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Passenger and RubyEnt updates
Aug 11th
Updated my web server with Ruby Enterprise Edition 1.8.6-20080810 and Phusion Passenger 2.0.3 successfully. Both releases feature bugfixes for security issues and the like. My web server currently powers this blog, a Redmine instance for my own projects, and some “production” servers for a few Rails apps I’m writing right now.
I’d highly recommend Passenger and RubyEnt for low-volume or even high-traffic production Rails servers. It has greatly simplified my deployment and performance on a VPS with, say, 540MB of RAM is stellar. If you set the idle timeout to something huge, you can get almost Nginx+Mongrel/Thin level performance even on a low-traffic server; otherwise you have to wait a brief time (10-15 seconds) when the app has been idle for a while.
Building libxml-ruby gem on Ubuntu Hardy
Jul 14th
Source: Tibs’ Blog
I had been having a lot of trouble using libxml-ruby on Ubuntu Hardy for a hobby project of mine. Any task including libxml calls via require 'xml/libxml' fails with the message:
no such file to load -- libxml_so
Installing id3lib-ruby gem on OSX Leopard with id3lib from MacPorts
Jul 8th
Source: John Wulff and comments
sudo port install id3lib sudo ARCHFLAGS="-arch i386" gem install id3lib-ruby -- --build-flags --with-opt-dir=/opt/local
64-bit Windows?
Jul 7th
I took a chance with my time this weekend to try out Vista Ultimate x64, after acquiring a pair of 2GB sticks of DDR2-800 for my gaming desktop. I have to say, I haven’t had the chance to throw much at it and I wound up on a retro kick anyways, but Vista x64 seems just dandy on this machine.
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