By Robert J Berger, on May 2nd, 2010
I wanted to do some experimenting with various tools for doing Hadoop and HBase activities and didn’t want to have to bother making it work with our Cluster in the Cloud. I just wanted a simple experimental environment on my Macbook Pro running Snow Leopard Mac OS X.
So I thought it was time to revisit installing [...]
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 or [...]
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 offers [...]
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 it [...]