My Green Jar

I finally stumped up the cash for a new Intel mac. I went for the 20″ model as I thought the extra screen size would come in handy. I ordered it with a gig of RAM in one Dimm and ordered more from Crucial. I threw in a Aperture too. I’d been meaning to pick up a copy for a while but couldn’t bear the thought of it running on my G4 powerBook. I’ll post a review as soon as I’ve had a chance to play.

Now the all important question- Do I install Windows or not?

Many thanks to Daniel Jalkut for sharing some Xcode hints on his blog (link) . The best thing about mac development is definitely the development community.

Like most people I often have to search for information on the internet. My search engine of choice has for a long time been Google (link), more often than not it finds what I need in fractions of a second. But having a list of possible sources is just one step in the research process. The next steps often include sorting through the various sources, discarding results that are irrelevant and deciding upon the bias of the author.

However, I think I may have come up with a solution that cuts down on my search time dramatically. If I ever need easily understandable information I head for wikipedia (link). It is mostly well written, and generally up to date- plus there are external links if I want to continue looking into the topic.

I still use google for searching for precise information, although if what I want is general information then wikipedia gets my vote!

After much reading about the joys of capistrano, I decided to test it! I spent ages reading tutorials- and the excellent guide on the ruby on rails website (link). But I still couldn’t deploy my small test apps. I had some great pointers, but basically the gist is if you haven’t already logged into the remote servers by ssh and verified its fingerprint then capistrano deployment fails. Since you cannot ssh into your dreamhost database server, the trick to use is to list your web, app and database servers as the domain that you would like to host from; i.e. ruby.mygreenjar.com. Since all the appropriate database servers should be set in database.yml everything should execute perfectly.

It seems like everyone is jumping on the blogging bandwagon so I thought it was about time that I inflicted my personal opinions upon the world. So stick around as I put the world to rights and endeavor to stand on my soapbox for as long as people may listen.