Hola! I just started a new project on GitHub, I’m calling it ec2-extra-tools. It’s basically a set of extra command line tools that I find useful on Amazon EC2. Right now, it only has 2, but I will add more in the future and encourage other people to collaborate on the project. Here’s what’s included [...]
Archive > October 2008
Very simple paper to email on Mac OS X
Macintosh computers are great. Not only are they more stable than their PC counterpart, but they totally get out of your way. On the Mac, things just work, as you would hope or expect they would. All the little nifty things the Mac offers really add up. OS X is by far the best operating [...]
Announcing install_gems.rb
Over the weekend, I was rethinking the way we should deploy our Merb application (our API) for Defensio. Everything I’ll say here applies to Rails as well. Managing gems has been painful lately. Like most people, we’re freezing them, which helps tremendously. However, there’s a few problems with this approach: We can’t freeze C extensions [...]