Welcomed To The RRoD Club
I powered on the ol’ Xbox 360 this weekend to finish Mass Effect, a feat which I was especially pumped about since I’ve been told I’m extremely close. Much to my surprise, Microsoft had left a super special, albeit slightly belated Christmas surprise up in my tubes.
Awesome!! Thanks, Redmond!!
Tags: Games, news, sucks, xbox 360
Rails 2.0: Gmail SMTP With ActionMailer
Marc just checked in a nifty little Rails 2.0 plugin to the OpenRain public subversion repository which encapsulates the voodoo required to use a Gmail SMTP server with an otherwise ordinary ActionMailer configuration. Gmail requires TLS security, which is why this is useful. Grab the plugin for your Gmail-mooching Rails 2.0 site, here.
Note: I previously wrote about how to do this for Rails 1.2.x here.
Update (2008.06.25): Broken download link fixed!
Tags: gmail, marc chung, news, openrain, philanthropy, picture, rails, ruby
. 05 Jan 08 | Computer | Comments (7)
In The News
OpenRain affiliate img surf’s Mugr facial recognition services have been receiving some press lately. Here’s the lowdown of what’s been happening..
- ReadWriteWeb.com article, by Josh Catone.
- AltSearchEngines.com comparison, by Charles Knight.
- RoughType.com article, by Nicolas Carr.
- Official Mugr blog, by the Mugr team.
- Public Mugr developer support Google group.
Mad props to the Mugr team for the thrill ride thus far!
Sun Introduces Non-Native (Linux) Zone Support
The “What’s New” document for Solaris 10 8/07 states the update “..includes the tools necessary to install a CentOS 3.5 to 3.8 or Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.5 to 3.8 inside a non-global zone. Machines running the Solaris OS in either 32-bit or 64-bit mode can execute 32-bit Linux applications.” Additionally, “DTrace can now be used in a non-global zone..” and ZFS gets even cooler. w00t.
Tags: linux, news, solaris, zones
. 31 Aug 07 | Computer | Comments (0)
Programming Erlang Now Shipping, v1.1 PDF Released
The Pragmattic Programmers are now shipping print copies of Programming Erlang: an outstanding introduction to the interesting new Erlang language for concurrent programming. Peeps who bought the PDF can download v1.1 here.
Tags: book, erlang, news, programming
. 17 Jul 07 | Computer | Comments (0)