By Robert J Berger, on March 2nd, 2010
Updates
Mar 3, 2010 Added call to script ec2-set-defaults that is normally called on ec2 init that sets the locale and apt sources for EC availability Zone
Introduction
Opscode has officially released 0.8.x of Chef. It is now even more fabulous. I’ve been using the pre-release version for the last couple of months and it is rock steady [...]
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 January 15th, 2009
Flinn Mueller aka actsasflinn wrote an blog post Cross domain RESTful JSON-P with Rails back in July. There he showed how to monkeypatch Rails to allow json-p to do all the REST verbs even when going across domains. He also showed how to make the json-p calls with jquery. A very nice solution that we [...]