Install notes for Datamapper do_postgres driver ruby gem on severall operating systems:
Apple OSX Snow Leopard
System Version: Mac OS X 10.6.2
Kernel Version: Darwin 10.2.0
(No Macports; No Homebrew)
PosgreSQL 8.4
I wanted to have PosgreSQL server working on the mac so that development is easier.
There is a .dmg package from the guys at EnterpriseDB that is a single click install. Check […]
3 or 4 new projects ahead.
One of them will be CouchDB and Merb (no DataMapper, no ActiveRecord). The db schema is modeled by each user and upon criteria decisions.
All of them Git managed, as been doing for the last year.
Served by a Debian based Linux distro, coded under Debian, UNR (my lovely little netbook), and […]
Joey Hess proposed some months ago an interesting slight realign for the Debian release model. Basically he proposes the formation of a team to ensure a Constantly Usable Testing (CUT) allowing for some (lots of) users to have access to a well formed and current packaged version of… Testing. CUT would enforce that Testing should […]
Well, a post about Windows… who’d say about that…
The thing is: is have a HP desktop that after a good BIOS update, got its motherboard dead. Good BIOS update. Pretty much dead motherboard. Not only happened to me. There are foruns about these HP BIOS updates for this motherboard series that gave lot’s of problems. […]
… well the name reminds Brad Choate’s Textmate blogging bundle Brad is an excellent developer and like me, was once a Delphi (Borland great product) developer. I based this on his Textmate work. I’m coding a Vi / ViM / GViM script for a plugin that has some nice results already, exclusively for […]
… when coding switter, using lot’s of command line, vim, bash, i felt the need to blog from vim. Some readings (quite a few availlable, actually) later, i was testing Wordpress xmlrpc using MovableType (Six Apart) calls to it. Vim allows ruby scripts (when compiled with that directive) use to create new commands, just like […]
…now, switter was accepted on rubyforge.org. I’ll try to put source and some docs there (rdoc does wonders) soon. Meanwhile, and with threahds now working for continuous message post/get, it just needs some tickles on the readline method.
switter on a maximized shell window receiving public timelines
switter on a normal sized shell window receiving public timelines
ENV is the hash that contains environment variables:
ENV.collect { |key, val| puts “#{key} ==> #{val}” }
ENV.each_pair { |key, val| puts “#{key} ==> #{val}” }
Need to know $HOME of the current user (needed for config files, say)?
puts ENV[’HOME’] if ENV.has_key?(’HOME’)
puts ENV[’HOME’] if ENV.key?(’HOME’)
puts ENV[’HOME’] if ENV.include?(’HOME’)
puts ENV[’HOME’] if ENV.member?(’HOME’)
…broken computer motherboard made be use an older laptop, Celeron 1Ghz 256MB RAM.
Linux with XFCE and Mutt to read IMAP mail accounts. Mutt is cool !!
I am now awake for almost 24 hours. Most of the time was spent with my beloved daughter and this laptop. I spent a good portion of my working day updating to a new release of Ubuntu Linux. This one is still in “Beta” phase, but i could not wait more. So I’m typing this […]