Author Archives: andy

IR_Black on MacOS X Lion

Posted on July 3, 2011 by andy

Just upgraded to GM developer release of MacOS X Lion and noticed SIMBL TerminalColour plugin hack I use to get the right colors on the popular IR_Black theme was broken. The new terminal however finally allows you to actually pick … Continue reading →

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Snow Leopard + MySQL + Ruby + 64-bit = #fail

Posted on July 9, 2010 by andy

Running into the following error after your Snow Leopard upgrade? uninitialized constant MysqlCompat::MysqlRes Then the following build line for the mysql gem might fix it for you: ARCHFLAGS=”-arch i386 -arch x86_64″ \ gem install –no-rdoc –no-ri mysql ]] \ — … Continue reading →

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Microblogging FTW?

Posted on April 15, 2010 by andy

Haven’t updated this blog in quite a while. On the other hand I’ve been very active on Twitter. Going to hunt for a WordPress plugin that ‘reblogs’ the microblogging activity

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EngineYard takes over the JRuby team

Posted on July 28, 2009 by andy

Wow, EngineYard is really stepping up! Have to wonder though what’s going on at Sun, is the whole thing now imploding?! Crazy!

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Scala scripting continued

Posted on July 13, 2009 by andy

It took a day or two of blog reading and scala console try outs but I managed to create my first usable Scala script. import scala.xml._ /** Sequence number fix script. See http://fugamusic.com/docs/ingestion/ingestion.xsd **/ object FixSequence { var seq: List[Pair[Int,Int]] … Continue reading →

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First stab at Scala scripting.. filters do not work like my Ruby brain thinks they do

Posted on July 10, 2009 by andy

So I decided to pick up the Scala language. Having done Ruby for a couple of years now Scala is one of the few, if not the only language that’s gotten me excited. Being a first class citizen on the … Continue reading →

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Installing new Ruby postgresql adapter on Leopard

Posted on June 5, 2009 by andy

I need to fix a project which uses PostgreSQL. On a fresh Leopard install with postgresql 8.3 installed from ports I ran into this problem: $ sudo gem install pg Building native extensions.  This could take a while… ERROR:  Error … Continue reading →

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Suriname

Posted on February 9, 2009 by andy

Currently enjoying some vacation in  Suriname. Update: and back again (2009-03-06)

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Typo -> Mephisto -> WordPress

Posted on January 21, 2009 by andy

First I tried Typo, then Mephisto and now this blog is running WordPress. As a Ruby fan I really wanted to use Ruby everywhere, 2 years ago. I’m now at the point where I just want working stuff (kids will … Continue reading →

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Passenger with RACK apps

Posted on January 18, 2009 by andy

I started converting various apps running on mongrel clusters over to Apache + Passenger. One component of our production system is implemented as as mongrel plugin so it kind of sucks tot keep mongrel around just for this part. The … Continue reading →

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