As a follow up to the post I did a bit back explaining how to write ruby code to talk to Amazon.com I have also built a site that makes it simple to get your Amazon.com Wishlist RSS. This should make your life a bit easier if you want to integrate your rss feed into…
no configured for
If you are using Jeweler and get this error: no configured for Check out the troubleshooting section: You need to edit ~/.rubyforge/auto-config.yml and make sure processor_ids is set like this: processor_ids: IA64: 6000 AMD-64: 1500 Any: 8000 Sparc: 4000 PPC: 2000 Other: 9999 Alpha: 7000 i386: 1000 UltraSparc: 5000 MIPS: 3000
Justin and Joel’s Epic Mountain Bike Adventure
So today I and Joel decide to go ride mountain bikes. I’ve been stuck in the house all week writing code because I’m to big of a wimp to go ride in the rain. He talks me into a ride from Latheom’s Hollow over into Millville canyon and back to his place. He tells me…
Configure Your wp-config.php for Database Access on Mac OSX 10.6
I ran into another problem trying to get my database to work on 10.6. The trick is to properly set DB_HOST: /** MySQL hostname */ define(‘DB_HOST’, ‘127.0.0.1:3306’); </pre> For a complete tutorial on how to setup WordPress on Mac OSX 10.6 see http://wordpress.org/support/topic/306878?replies=6.
WordPress on Mac OSX 10.6
I do a little WordPress work on my site using my Mac. After upgrading to Snow Leopard I started getting errors like this: Warning: strtotime(): It is not safe to rely on the system’s timezone settings. You are required to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those…
Gems on an EngineYard Solo instance
I started running into a few issues on an Engineyard Solo instance with my muck gems. Basically, muck consists of a lot of Rails engines packaged as gems for reusability. When we release a new app we also need to release new versions of the gems since that’s where most of guts of the lives….
gems:unpack for gems that don’t unpack
I couldn’t figure out why my gems wouldn’t unpack until I ran across this: http://metaclass.org/2009/4/13/rake-gems-unpack. My gems have rake tasks and I have to include them in the app’s rakefile to make them available so Rails won’t unpack them. I did this instead: def muck_gems [‘cms-lite’, ‘disguise’, ‘uploader’, ‘muck-solr’, ‘muck-raker’, ‘muck-engine’, ‘muck-users’, ‘muck-activities’, ‘muck-comments’, ‘muck-profiles’,…
Mac OSX and the Samsung ML1740 on a network
I’m mostly posting this so I don’t forget since it seems like I have to reinstall my printer driver often enough to be annoying but not often enough to remember. I run my Samsung 1740 on my wife’s computer and share it to the other computers on my network. The driver isn’t built in so…
Amazon Wishlist RSS, Ruby and Signing/Authenticating your Requests
UPDATE: If you don’t want to bother with the code and instead would just like to get your Amazon.com Wishlist rss you can go here. I’ve been playing with the Amazon API lately. At first I just wanted to get the RSS feed to my wish list and I followed the direction in this article…
Snakeversary
One year ago today I trashed my knee while riding up Blacksmith Fork Canyon after running over a rattlesnake. This is how my knee looked then: My leg is straight so it is harder to see, but if I bend it you can see the tendons and this is how it looks now: I’m just…