Installing FreeImage on Mac OS X Lion
I think you all know that I don’t like Macport nor Homebrew as I prefer to compile everything. I also don’t like the fact that ImageScience requires FreeImage. Well, in order to compile and install FreeImage, you have to go modify Makefile.osx. Below is the content and here’s the link to the gist.
This is for Lion since it’s all 64-bit and the SDK is 10.7. You don’t have to worry about the latest Xcode. Just make and sudo make install. That’s all!
Developer’s Life
Bryan on CNN
Geez, What Happened?
Ok, so you may not know, all my sites are running from my data center at home. Yes, I do have a rack of servers I maintain at home. So, when the weird ass snow storm hit my area, the power went down and went down hard. I lost power on Saturday and just got it back. That’s three plus days. Obviously my UPS’s doesn’t last that long and all my sites, including this one, went down.
So, why didn’t I just redirect to my backups at EC2?
The simple answer is that I have a family and had to evacuate them to safety since without electricity, I have no running water. I also got rid of my other remote servers to save some money. Guess the savings weren’t worth it. They’re all coming back.
NeXT vs. Sun
This is quite old, but I nevertheless find this very entertaining. It also made me think about how I’d like to work. Wouldn’t it be great if we all can work in peace without useless meetings and interruptions like these programmers?
Rubyist’s Life 201109
I’ve spoken about current working conditions of many developers in this post. Here’s a video to Nigel Marsh’s talk on balancing work and life. For those of you in US, today’s Labor Day and I hope you’re in “disconnect” as I am (or trying to).
Rails 3.1
Now that Rails is 3.1, we should take a short break from our daily lives to see what changed. In this release, there are many significant changes. The biggest one that I see is the assets pipeline. I’ll have to tackle this issue next coming days since all my apps use “traditional” layout. Of course I don’t have to use it, but why stay behind?
Here’s the link to the release note.
I’ve been too busy with iOS development recently and this new release gives me an excuse to dive into Ruby again. I’ll post the results of my experiments here.
Why I Don’t Have Code on Github
Because I have a fucking job and I don’t post my clients/employer’s intellectual properties for public to see. I’ll post code to Github when I’m unemployed and have nothing on my resume.
Starting a Project without IB
Short Survey – iPhone App & Rails
Although this blog is about Ruby (see the post about the origin of RubyHead), I thought it would be interesting to demonstrate how an iPhone app could be another front-end to a system other than web.
I’m thinking about creating a series of screencasts that shows me writing a simple iPhone app with Rails serving up data and tiny web admin. Instead of going into details, I’d like to make it so that it’s just a rough play by play.
Please vote in the comment if this is something that interests you.
