As I mentioned before, I upgraded to ruby 1.8.7 and decided to use —prefix=/usr, i.e. overwriting existing ruby 1.8.6. Big mistake. After some issues I decided to roll back completely.
This is what I did (luckily I can copy the required files from my wife’s Macbook).
The framework is /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework
Rename the following directories then copy the same directories from another OS X
Make sure the following files are links to os x ruby framework’s /usr/bin
Remove these backup directories afterwards (once everything is ok)
Now
I was in a update mood so I updated my system to use GWT 1.5.0 and ruby 1.8.7.
After updated ruby I tried to figure out how to keep the old gems. My solution was to set the following env variables (similar result could be achieved with .gemrc).
But in the end I decided to revert back to ruby 1.8.6…. because I realised a problem that I worked around earlier is bigger than I thought. The problem was that hpricot 0.6 didn’t load properly under 1.8.7. I was too focused on understanding how OS X setup ruby framework and replicating it in 1.8.7.
All was not lost, someone has found the problem and fixed it. So once a new hpricot released then I should be able to re-apply what I learnt.
I use iPhoto Library Manager to manage the size of my iPhoto libraries.
When I need to split libraries there isn’t a easy way to delete photos that match your criteria (I use date) from the library.
If there are less than 50% of the photos that I want to keep in a library then I can just create a smart album that contain those photos and simply drag and drop the album to a new library. But when there are more than 50% then it is faster to delete the unwanted photo from the existing library.
That is the problem, there isn’t an easy way to delete a bunch of photos from library that belongs to a certain album (i.e. match certain criteria).
My solution is this, iPhoto has a Bulk Update (cmd+shift+B) function. So I select all the photos in the album that I want to delete and use Bulk Update to set the description to be ‘deleteme’ then I go to the photos and do a find (cmd+F) with the same string. Voila now I can select the photos and delete them out of the library. Just remember to empty the iPhoto Trash so you recover the disk space from the library.
I like stikipad, but I am glad when I was deciding which wiki to use I didn’t go with stikipad.
They are currently down and, according to its users has been down for 2 weeks already. On top of the the owners and support is not there.
I am current playing with porting my wiki pages to Google Site. My experience so far is that the UI is nice, displaying code is a bit of pain until I figure out a better way. Lastly it doesn’t seem to be indexed by Google.
By default Git uses less as a pager. That is very cool because to look at logs you no longer have to pipe the output to less yourself. But something didn’t work very well for me until I finally couldn’t take it anymore. The problem was that for some reason my Git output in less is displaying weird chars that looks like ESC at beginning of lines. I found the culprit to be one of my env variable LESS=-i, which makes search in less case-insensitive. It’s all good after it’s taken out :)
I am already not a fan of annotations and now this!?!? Fortunately (and also unfortunate) enterprise (man I hate that word) companies are slow to take up new things. The client I work for at the moment is still on Java 1.4…..
umm… LinkedIn is looking for Rails developer~~~~
LinkedIn is keeping both its Rails & Java development as Matt suggested.
I am not saying I am going to convert to develop Flex application.
But it might be worth keeping an eye on the technology. It might just be an interesting platform to play with. It is certainly getting attention from the JavaFX guys.
If you liked Steve’s post then read Cedric’s comeback
