By Robert J Berger, on October 2nd, 2009
Snow Leopard Server (and at least Leopard Server) both have MySQL installed already. But its not a complete enough install to build the Ruby Mysql Gem. It seems that the Snow Leopard Server Mysql does not include all the client stuff that is needed by the mysql gem.
The Apple Support article: Mac OS X Server 10.5.6 [...]
By Robert J Berger, on August 28th, 2009
Opportunity Knocks
Runa.com, the startup where I am CTO, is looking for great developers to join our small agile team. We’re an early stage, pre-series-A startup (presently funded with strategic investments from two large corporations). Runa [...]
By Robert J Berger, on March 5th, 2009
The instructions for installing the Apache Thrift on the Wiki missed a few key things in terms of installing on Ubuntu (8.04 in my case) and Macintosh OS X Leopard (10.5.6).
Gitting the latest source
For instance they show you how to get the latest via SVN or a snapshop via wget. But the wget actually gets [...]
By Robert J Berger, on December 18th, 2008
At Cinch, we are looking into a high volume, high performance message queuing mechanism for aggregating updates from javascript logging into our data stores. The first one we are investigating is RabbitMQ which seems to have a good rep.
Though we are deploying on Linux, we do all our development on Mac OS X. It turned [...]