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Mac OSX Path

Great post on Mac Paths http://www.semioticpixels.com/2010/01/path-settings-on-mac-snow-leopard/

2010 10 28 Mac Comments (0)

Rails Rumble 2010

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 [...]

2010 10 17 Ruby Comments (0)

Mule 3.0 Restful Webservice

Mule 3.0 was recently released. Restful web services are now fully supported. You can hot deploy the application now. It is much easier to deploy an application. Unfortunately, as I write this, the documentation is not yet up to date.  The configuration for a restful web service has changed. The configuration file looks like the [...]

2010 09 22 java Comments (0)

Amazon vs Rackspace for Blender

I am comparing Amazon and Rackspace to host some of my servers.  I’d like them to render my blender files as well as be a web server for blenderfarmers.com.  So, I have created the smallest possible server on both services.  They are roughly comparable in cost for their smallest instances.  Rackspace is $0.015/hour for their [...]

2010 09 09 Uncategorized Comments (0)

blenderfarmers.com

My brother Doug went to Full Sail film school and has recently gotten me into the hobby of making shorts in our fun time (www.simplemindedstudios.com).  Currently, we are making a short using my children as the actors.  We don’t have access to very many interesting places to film so we decided to create most of the sets [...]

2010 09 09 Ruby Comments (0)

SSH and Amazon Cloud

While trying to login to an Amazon cloud server from my Mac, with the following command: ssh -i register.pem username@myamazonserver.amazonaws.com I got this error message: @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ @         WARNING: UNPROTECTED PRIVATE KEY FILE!          @ @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Permissions 0644 for ‘tmn_register.pem’ are too open. It is recommended that your private [...]

2010 08 30 Uncategorized Comments (0)

Mac Application Bundle

So, I packaged up my native looking Mac application in my own Application Bundle.  It was super simple to do. An application bundle is nothing more than a folder that has been renamed with the extension “.app” and conforms to a certain directory structure.  The directory structure looks like this: /Contents/ /Contents/Info.plist /Contents/MacOS/ /Contents/Resources/ /Contents/youricon.icns [...]

2010 08 25 Mac Comments (0)

JAVA_HOME on MacOSX

edit your ~/.profile (or ~/.bash_profile if you are using that instead) and add the following export JAVA_HOME=/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Home

2010 08 25 Uncategorized Comments (0)

Native Looking Mac App with Ruby

Ruby is really popular to make websites because of Rails, but I want to write a native looking application using Ruby.  I’ve discovered wxruby which is a really cool cross platform GUI library for use with Ruby.  It is built on wxWidgets which is a C++ library for making cross platform GUIs that appear native because [...]

2010 08 23 Mac
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Homebrew

I am currently trying out a new package management system called Homebrew.  I am not really sure how it’s any better than MacPorts yet.  I think the only thing I know is that you aren’t forced to download multiple versions of a package if you don’t need to. http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew/

2010 07 30 Uncategorized Comments (0)