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{ Monthly Archives } September 2009

Install Ruby on Rails for Mac Snow Leopard using MacPorts

Not sure why but I had a heck of a time running my ruby on rails code after updating my Mac to Snow Leopard. I use MacPorts to do my development so I simply removed it and all of my ports as well as the gem I had installed in my home folder.  I went [...]

Six degrees of Barack Obama

You’ve heard of the six degrees of Kevin Bacon?  It is the concept that you can connect to anyone in the world in six steps or less.  Microsoft has demonstrated this after checking (snooping?) through 30 billion IM conversations.  Well, anyone who knows me can (if they couldn’t before) trace their route to President Barack Obama.  Today my [...]

Blackberry preferred development platform is Windows

Well, I am in the middle of learning to write my first blackberry application. Since Blackberry uses the Java platform so heavily, I was excited to be able to develop natively on the Mac. Apparently there is no easy way to actually do this. I am used to using Eclipse for my java development so [...]