Somewhere between happy and total f**king wreck
Shane
23-year-old system administrator and programmer from Michigan, who loves hard rock, punk and heavy metal music, and fantasy/sci-fi movies.
Homepage: http://shanesveller.com/
AIM: redrummm86
Posts by Shane
Programming Goals: January-March
January 7, 2010 - 1:31 pm
Tags: bundler, c sharp, jquery, mongodb, Quarterly Goals, rails 3, redis, Wordpress
Posted in Javascript, Programming, Rails, Wordpress | Comments
Wherein I describe some goals I’m setting for myself for the next few months.
AT&T iPhone 3G versus Verizon Blackberry Curve
December 21, 2008 - 11:17 pm
Tags: blackberry, cellphone, iphone, review
Posted in Life, Phones, Reviews | Comments
Herein I compare my shiny new iPhone 3G to my tired old Blackberry Curve.
Snippet: Update Your Local Git/Subversion-based Textmate Bundles with Sake
Google Chrome 0.2
September 12, 2008 - 10:55 am
Tags: browser, chrome, google, review
Posted in Computers, Windows | Comments
There’s nothing to hate and plenty to like about the 0.2 release of Google Chrome. It’s blazing fast, but doesn’t have the extendability and extension ecosystem that Firefox has.
Redmine and Passenger bugfix
August 11, 2008 - 11:15 am
Tags: deployment, passenger, Rails, redmine, ruby
Posted in Computers, Linux, Programming, Rails | Comments
Redmine+Passenger has issues with RedCloth 4.x so use 3.0.4 or the included version instead.
Passenger and RubyEnt updates
August 11, 2008 - 11:01 am
Tags: deployment, passenger, Rails, ruby, server, updates
Posted in Computers, Linux, Programming, Rails | Comments
My webserver is now running Phusion Passenger 2.0.3 for Ruby/Rails apps using Ruby Enterprise Edition 1.8.6-20080810. This greatly simplifies application deployment and helps improve performance and memory usage.
Building libxml-ruby gem on Ubuntu Hardy
July 14, 2008 - 1:07 pm
Tags: bugfix, gem, libxml, ruby
Posted in Computers, Linux, Programming, Rails | Comments
no such file to load -- libxml_so
sudo apt-get install libxml2 libxml2-dev cd /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/libxml-ruby-0.7.0 sudo ruby ext/libxml/extconf.rb sudo make; sudo make install
Installing id3lib-ruby gem on OSX Leopard with id3lib from MacPorts
July 8, 2008 - 3:29 pm
Tags: gem, id3, leopard, OSX, Rails, ruby
Posted in Computers, Programming, Rails | Comments
sudo port install id3lib sudo ARCHFLAGS="-arch i386" gem install id3lib-ruby -- --build-flags --with-opt-dir=/opt/local
64-bit Windows?
July 7, 2008 - 12:52 pm
Tags: 64bit, impressions, review, vista, Windows
Posted in Computers, Windows | Comments
I found Vista x64 surprisingly usable.
Another successful Passenger deployment
June 25, 2008 - 2:16 pm
Tags: deployment, linode, Linux, Rails, ruby, ubuntu
Posted in Computers, Linux, Programming, Rails | Comments
This morning, as a result of a hardware failure on my home server, I decided to move my Redmine devtracker to my Linode host.