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My wife – a good web designer with 6 years of experience with web design, HTML and CSS is looking for a job. Here is some information about her:
We’re physically located in Toronto, Canada, but she has a great experience of working remotely too. So, if you need a web designer or a junior web designer, feel free to contact Tanya.
Another short post just to remember the procedure for the next time I’ll be setting up a new mac. For those of my readers who do not know what Midnight Commander (aka mc) is, GNU Midnight Commander is a visual file manager, created under a heavy influence of Norton Commander file manager from dark DOS ages 
For more information, you can visit their web site. Now, get to the installation topic itself.
To install mc on a Mac OS X machine, you need macports installed and then first thing you’ll need to do is to install some prerequisite libraries:
1 | $ sudo port install libiconv slang2 |
Next thing, download the sources from their web site and unpack them. When the sources are ready, you can configure the build:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 | $ ./configure \ --prefix=/opt/mc \ --with-screen=slang \ --enable-extcharset \ --enable-charset \ --with-libiconv-prefix=/opt/local \ --with-slang-includes=/opt/local/include \ --with-slang-libs=/opt/local/lib |
Then, normal GNU-style build and install procedure:
1 2 3 | $ make ........ $ sudo make install |
And the last thing would be to add /opt/mc/bin to your PATH environment variable.
Few days ago we were chatting in our corporate Campfire room and one of the guys asked me what do I think about Rails developers hiring process, what questions I’d ask a candidate, etc… This question started really long and interesting discussion and I’d like to share my thoughts on this question in this post.
Sorry for a short outage today – we were moving to a new server we had some problems because of software incompatibilities on the new box. Now all sites on this box should behave as usual
Inspired by the Rail Spikes:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 | bash-3.2$ history 1000 | awk '{a[$2]++}END{for(i in a){print a[i] " " i}}' | sort -rn | head 228 cd 167 git 10 ssh 10 DEPLOY=production 6 sudo 6 pwd 6 ./script/import_views.rb 5 rm 4 rake 4 mv bash-3.2$ |
Really interesting stats, I’d never guess that git is used more than ssh on my desktop (I’m a remote worker and mysql consultant so I ssh really often).
Hello my dear readers.
Today I have a question for all of you. What platforms (32bit or 64 bit) do you use for your servers with more than 4Gb RAM? I’m asking because recently we‘ve hit few really weird bugs in Linux kernels 2.6.18 to 2.6.22 and all those bugs were PAE-related. Now I’d really love to move all machines to 64-bit, but I’m in doubt because we don’t know too much about Rails stack (ruby, mongrel, haproxy) on 64-bit platforms (all our DB boxes are 64-bit of course).
So, please drop me a line if you have any experience (negative or positive) with Rails platform on 64-bit machines. I’d really appreciate your help.