Department of Shameless Commerce
I was playing around with Pixelmator today, and made a new sketch of Ruby the DuckDog whose photo graces the masthead here.When the old dog say her picture, she told me that she wouldn’t mind sharing...
View ArticleStout Man Talking
Better late than neverA few weeks back Jared Richardson interviewed me about the talk I gave at the inaugural RubyRXNo Fluff, Just Stuff’s first foray into a Ruby oriented conference.Although this was...
View ArticleBack in the Saddle Again
What a long strange trip it's beenSometime on Wednesday March 11, the server running this blog died a horrible death.I'd been happily working on a consulting sub-contract when I returned home late at...
View Articletypo-5-1-with-capistrano-deploy-to-passenger-on-ubuntu-8-10-a-debriefing
Yesterday, I wrote about the crash project to resurrect this blog after a hardware failure. I'm now running it on an upgraded version of Typo (5.2 instead of 4.1), using Passenger on Ubuntu 8.10...
View ArticleOn Reading Code
About a week ago, Pat Eyler, who writes the "On Ruby" blog contacted me to ask if I would be willing to participate in one of his "Questions Five Ways" theme articles.Pat picks five people who he...
View ArticleRi_Cal is Now On RubyForge
After a few weeks of maturation on github, setting up a bug tracker, and a google group for project discussions, the bug reports died down to the point where I felt comfortable putting a more...
View ArticleA Rubyist's Guide to Dating
I'm speaking about the "RiCal experience" tomorrow evening 20 October 2009, at the October meeting of the Raleigh Ruby Brigade. As usual the meeting is at Red Hat HQ in Raleigh and starts at 7:00 pm.I...
View ArticleKarmic Koala, Bind9, and Apparmor
Today was the day to upgrade the server running this blog to Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala".Late in the upgrade, during the process of installing and configuring the Debian packages, the upgrade hung. I...
View ArticleSite Upgrade
Just a brief article to announce that I've just upgraded this blog to Typo 5.3 to 5.2. I'd run into troubles with upgrading back when my development machine was running Leopard. I just got around to...
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Ubuntu TimeMachine server for Snow Leopard
The Time Machine!©Chaotic Good01I've been contemplating improving my backup strategies lately.Last year, I signed up with Backblaze to back up my MacBook to the cloud. There are a few players in this...
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