I’ve watched Heroku for a while. I’ve even tried to deploy an app there a few times, but never got into it that much. I needed a cheap (free) place to put My Amazon Feeds.com. It’s just a utility site. It’s not meant to scale or be production worthy. Instead it’s meant to show off…
Social Network Dilution
My wife thinks it’s funny that I never check Facebook anymore. I got her into it and now she checks it daily. I got my account way back when you still had to have a .edu email address to get an account. It was worthless for a while because no one else I knew had…
Amazon Wishlist RSS
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…