http://mandhro.com Zak Mandhro's Blog On Random Software Stuff Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:25:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en http://mandhro.com/2008/06/05/sign-up-for-firefox-download-day/ My eRubycon 2007 slides are on Slideshare. Service-Oriented Architecture with Ruby. Covers open-source libraries that make web services possible on Ruby. | View | Upload your own http://mandhro.com/2007/11/20/soa-with-ruby/ After 4 years of Ubuntu Linux, I am finally getting comfortable with Mac OS. Here's my list of things that I think will make Mac OS a better OS for me, a long-time Linux user. Disclaimer: I not a Mac expert by any means. Please feel free to enlighten me. digg_url = ... http://mandhro.com/2007/06/26/8-things-mac-os-could-do-better/ I was so excited to get a new MacBook Pro with Mac OS X Leopard for my birthday (April). Days went by, no news on the new operating system. Until now. Apple just announced that Leopard is not to be released until October. This is hard for me because I'll *have* ... http://mandhro.com/2007/04/14/leopard-delayed-time-to-get-a-macbook-pro/ After many months of working nights and weekends, Famiva is finally ready for public beta! So, what is Famiva anyway? It's a free social network and collaboration service for families. Basically, it's a web site that allows you build your family tree. Every relative you add will get the ability ... http://mandhro.com/2007/03/21/family20-famiva-is-live-finally/ Love Ubuntu and want to run a Rails server on Edgy Eft (Ubuntu 6.10)? Roll-up your sleeves for some "compiling from source" fun. Please note that Ubuntu Fiesty Fawn has been released. It comes with Apache 2.2. If you can, avoid all this compiling and just sudo apt-get dist-upgrade! Rails development on ... http://mandhro.com/2007/01/11/edgy-on-rails-get-compiling/ SD Times recently published my article on Tactical Business Applications with Ruby on Rails. It discusses the advantages of using Rails to fulfill enterprise business needs. Get the full article here: SD Times - Rails for Tactical Business Applications http://mandhro.com/2007/01/11/sd-times-rails-for-tactical-business-applications/ MySQL offers powerful out-of-the-box full text search capability. It allows you to do advanced search on text columns such as: apple +computer -fruit As of Rails 1.1.6, working with MySQL Full Text search is not that straight forward. The first problem is that Migrations doesn't support the SQL syntax for full text ... http://mandhro.com/2006/11/20/using-mysql-full-text-querying-with-rails/ While attemping to use Firefox in dual screen mode on my Ubuntu Linux, I encountered this annoying problem: If you launch Firefox on one screen, you can't launch it on the second screen (unless you are using Clone to Big mode). When you launch Firefox on the second screen, it ... http://mandhro.com/2006/10/20/making-firefox-work-with-dual-screen-on-linux/ Problem: The Ruby on Rails plug-in installer's RecursiveHTTPFetcher makes certain assumptions about web servers that does not hold true from server to server. For example, it assumes: The web server has "file browsing" enabled All links to plug-in files are relative Folder links end with a forward slash RubyForge web server is an example ... http://mandhro.com/2006/07/03/publising-rails-plug-ins-with-rake/