I’ve gotten this error twice while using Glassfish inside eclipse. I’m not sure of the root cause but after hours of searching both times, I thought I should document how to get around this error. After I shut down the glassfish server and restarted eclipse, the error went away.
So, I went down the road of using wxRuby, but it seems that it is a dead or dying code base. Seems most Ruby-ists are interested in Rails, not in desktop applications. I also failed in my attempt at packaging up a ruby desktop app to make it appear native. I kept running into 64bit [...]
# Turn on logging set global log_output=FILE; set global general_log=1; # Turn off logging set global general_log=0; The log file was writing it to mysql/data/{hostname}.log on my machine. I recently used this to discover why a Rails app was taking 15 seconds to load a page. I know this is also shown in the Rails [...]
I think convention over configuration is one positive idea that Ruby had brought to the java world. One of the criticisms that is lobbed at java is that it has too many XML configuration files. I don’t think this is a weakness in the java language as much as it is the desire to make an [...]
I’m having lots of fun writing a video capture application in C#. Windows Media Foundation is supposed to be the “cool new way” to do this. Unfortunately, there just isn’t a lot of support yet in the drivers and as far as I can tell, Windows Media Foundation does not work with the DirectShow drivers [...]
One of the things that I love the most about my Mac is the command line. I know the Mac is well known for it’s beautiful user interface, but that doesn’t stop at the graphical user interface. It extends to the command line user interface as well. One of the advantages of being based on [...]
I work on Rails as a contractor as well as my own projects. My main contract uses rails 2.x and ruby ree 1.8.7. Naturally, I like to use the bleeding edge on my own projects. This causes me problems going back and forth. I found that you can create an .rvmrc file that will set [...]
I’m currently working at a startup. One of the things I love about startups is the commitment I see from a lot of developers. I remember when I first moved to Colorado, working at 2am with other developers. It’s sorta like a party. I think it’s why I loved the Rails Rumble so much. It [...]
Great post on Mac Paths http://www.semioticpixels.com/2010/01/path-settings-on-mac-snow-leopard/
Wow, that was incredible fun. Andrew Kavanaugh and I holed up in a Vegas hotel for the entire weekend to crank out a Rails application www.transcriptify.com for Rails Rumble. We were http://railsrumble.com/teams/double-down. We were so busy, we still haven’t put one penny in a slot machine yet. This was also my very first rails application. We created [...]