Ray did a writeup on Rails setup on Leopard, pretty messed up how if you have the loaded_plugins gem installed you have to do some symlink surgery on the directories in /opt. oh and I don’t launch memcached on boot myself. Last time tried to upgrade/install to Leopard neither of our laptops worked. I think mine was doing an fsck in the background and I didn’t have the patience to wait. The MacBook had a filesystem error that forced a fresh install. Leopard is messed up.

Setting up Ruby on Rails, MySQL, Mongrel, memcached, and RMagick using MacPorts on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard : rayvinly.com blog

Technorati Tags: leopard, rails

Why is it impossible to search for people by email addresses? The only way to do that is to add them to your address book and use the contacts importer. I don’t see why I can’t just search by email addresses directly, what gives? Do they believe this makes it more secure and they assumed Fb users are too stupid to figure out they can just add the email to a dummy gmail account and use the importer?

I like this.

A List Apart: Articles: Understanding Web Design:

Web design is the creation of digital environments that facilitate and encourage human activity; reflect or adapt to individual voices and content; and change gracefully over time while always retaining their identity.

Let?s repeat that, with emphasis:

Web design is the creation of digital environments that facilitate and encourage human activity; reflect or adapt to individual voices and content; and change gracefully over time while always retaining their identity.

I have been wanting to compile this list for quite some time and finally got some free time to do it coz it’s thanksgiving day! Happy Thanksgiving!

OnMyList: Mac Applications I Can’t Live Without

damn have you guys seen this? I think it’s pretty cool.

If you wanna buy one you might as well use this link:

Technorati Tags: amazon, kindle

Post at OML Blog by Ray…

OnMyList Redesign

Over the last month, we worked very hard to design and implement a lot of new features and improvements for OnMyList and we?ve been so anxious to let the world know about it. Well, we finally did it! If you go to the site now, you should see a brand new user interface. It has a lot of cool new features. Here are some of them:

* Improved profile ? The new profile page now makes it easy for you to see lists you created, lists you made as favorites, lists you rated, people you subscribe to, and people who subscribe to you. You can also sort lists by new to old, old to new, or view count. The Latest Updates tab shows a newsfeed of your OnMyList activities, described next.

* Newsfeeds ? You can now spy on any list or anyone very easily because you will get notified when you make a list, comment on a list, someone else comment on your list or on a list that you commented on, subscribe to someone or someone subscribe to you, someone made your list a favorite, …etc. We hope this will help our members to stay on top of lists that you are interested and facilitate interactions between members.

* profile ? When you go to your profile page, you will find a link at the bottom of the right sidebar to add new profile question and answer to show off your personalities. We?ve also made the editing more obvious with the Edit buttons (We feel the in place editors were too subtle).

* ticker news ? There is a Overheard box on the homepage that shows selected lists that we?ve picked that are interesting. Pretty cool, huh?

* invite friends ? Want to let your friends know you are an OnMyList superstar? Want to show off your lists and what your favorites are? Have a list of images and videos that you want to impress someone? We?ve made it easy for you. Look around at the top of the site.

* crop profile picture ? We know you?ve been wanting to show your whole face in the profile picture. Now you have it.

* facebook app ? We have a facebook application for some time. You can show off your lists to your friends whenever you create or update your lists. You can make a list of favorite gifts for my birthday and have it show up in facebook, and hopefully get a few presents. Isn?t that cool?

* widget ? Just like the facebook app. And what?s more: You can choose to display your latest/favorites/highest rated lists. It just gets better! Get your widget to show off in your own blog or website by clicking My Widgets in your profile page now.

Technorati Tags: OML, OnMyList, rails, RoR, rubyonrails

If you’re doing some googling coz with_image isn’t giving you shit, or create_or_update_thumbnail isn’t updating your thumbnails in attachment_fu with Amazon S3 backend, then you might’ve found the right post!

attachment_fu and s3 woes, or how I spent most of Friday

If you don’t know what I’m talking about, sorry, I’ll post something more interesting tomorrow.

btw thanks Ray for keeping me sane over Skype when I was debugging this.

Technorati Tags: attachment_fu, s3, rails, RoR, rubyonrails

Foamee | How-to:

Foamee is a free service that helps track who you owe beers to (and vice versa) using the popular messaging service, Twitter.