Speaking Twice At ABLEconf: Saturday, September 20th, 2008
I’ll be giving two sessions this Saturday, September 20th, 2008 at ABLEconf: Arizona Business and Liberty Experience hosted at the University of Advancing Technology. The first will be a ~50 minute getting-started-with-ruby-on-rails type session aimed at developers similar to the one I’m giving this Wednesday for Joe Developer. The second will be a plug-heavy talk over how OpenRain does F/OSS-friendly web development in the commercial space using F/OSS software and tools, targeted for a business-minded crowd.
ABLEconf is a new event so I’m not sure what to expect, though I’d put my money on a lot of systems-level event content since much of the participation seems to be from local Linux groups.
Tags: ableconf, announcement, event, howto, rails, ror, ruby, session, speaking, uat
. 15 Sep 08 | Computer | Comments (0)
Speaking At Joe Developer: Wednesday, September 17th, 2008
This Wednesday evening, OpenRain will be hosting and providing food for Phoenix’s East-valley Joe Developer group. I’ll be giving a getting-started-with-ruby-on-rails type demo, after which I’m sure there’ll be good conversation and fun. Attendance and food are free. Food will be hot at 6PM. [Venue] [Google Group]
Tags: announcement, event, joe developer, openrain, rails, ror, ruby, speaking
. 15 Sep 08 | Uncategorized | Comments (0)
Installing The MySQL Ruby Gem When Using The Official MySQL .dmg
If you installed MySQL using the official .dmg package provided by MySQL AB/Sun and are trying to install the native MySQL gem, you’ll need to pass a bunch of flags to the gem install process to get the thing to compile. Try this..
sudo gem install mysql — –with-mysql-config=/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql_config
..if you still have issues (check your /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/<ruby_ver>/gems/mysql-<gem_ver>/mkmf.log file), try this instead..
sudo gem install mysql — –with-mysql-dir=/usr/local/mysql –with-mysql-include=/usr/local/mysql/include/ –with-mysql-lib=/usr/local/mysql/lib/ –with-mysql-config=/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql_config
Run `sudo gem install mysql` and definitely recheck the log file again as the gem install process sometimes reports false positives even if native components fail to install.
Tags: gem, howto, mysql, osx, rails, ruby, troubleshooting
. 12 Aug 08 | Computer | Comments (0)
Debugging JavaScript With Safari
I usually use FireBug and other FireFox-based tools for troubleshooting JavaScript issues, but never found a solid way to approach it in Safari, my primary browser. It turns out that the nightly builds of WebKit (Safari’s core) also come with a great utility called Drosera.app, which allows you to attach to a running WebKit process and get funky with a JavaScript console.
w00t l00ps! 
Tags: apple, debugging, drosera, firefox, javascript, mac, osx, rails, ror, ruby, safari, webkit
. 06 Mar 08 | Computer | Comments (0)
Marc Chung on Amazon Web Services
Mad props to fellow OpenRain’r Marc Chung for an excellent AWS presentation at this months Phoenix Rails meeting. Follow-up links..
- Full session audio in Rubyology episode #59, courtesy Chris Matthieu.
- Slides.
- Marc’s blog, recap and company.
- Derek’s recap.
Great job, Marc!
Tags: aws, marc chung, openrain, rails, ruby
. 21 Feb 08 | Computer | Comments (0)