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Fix for: can’t use fluid with campfire anymore…

Now that 37signals centralized their user management, my existing Fluid-based campfire doesn’t work. Specifically, I can’t login because it keeps opening a new window in my regular browser to login, instead of completing the login within Fluid.
I googled for “can’t use campfire with fluid” and similar, and no luck.  A little more digging and I [...]

Installing nokogiri Slicehost’s Ubuntu Hardy

Here’s the steps to get nokogiri installed;

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev
sudo gem install nokogiri
sudo gem install racc
sudo gem install rexical
(at this point, when I tried “gem install how”, it complained I didn’t have RubyGems >= 1.3.1. which is required for “hoe”)
sudo gem install rubygems-update -v=1.3.4
sudo update_rubygems
sudo gem install hoe

via Mark Howe » Rails requires RubyGems >= 1.3.1 you [...]

For Leopard, installing Sphinx from ports with mysql binary from mysql

Given I’ve installed sphinx
And I’ve used mac port for the install
When I run sphinx  indexer
Then it expects the mysql socket to be in /opt/local/var/run/mysql5/mysqld.sock
Given I’ve installed mysql
And I’ve used the binary from mysql
When I run mysqld
Then it use the mysql socket in /tmp/mysql.sock
To get sphinx indexer to use my installed version of mysql, I have to change [...]

Please vote for my SXSWi Panel “Lean Startups: Beyond the Hype, Successes, Failures & Techniques”

Last day to vote for my SXSWi panel; please vote! “Lean Startups: Beyond the Hype, Successes, Failures & Techniques” http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/ideas/view/3884

iPhone Voicemail Badness - why-oh-why AT&T #fb

Noticing that I haven’t received any new voicemails in over a week - and hearing rumors about problems with voicemail on the iPhone… I reset my iPhone and after a reboot - ta-da! Over a weeks worth of voicemails suddenly appear. Grrr. Never seen this before and I’ve had my 1st generation iPhone [...]

kanban development oversimplified + shiny bits on couchdb

Lots of buzz lately about kanban / lean in software development. While  watching this from the sidelines, I’ve also been looking at my current team and previous teams and gauging applicability.
With my current team (at FiveRuns), we hit a point a while ago where the team began to reject the extra formality and overhead in some of [...]

FiveRuns at RailsConf/CabooseConf and taking folks to see Penn & Teller

Attending RailsConf and/or CabooseConf? Join FiveRuns to see Penn & Teller perform at the Rio on Tuesday night.
We’ve got transportation and 40 tickets to catch Penn & Teller at the Rio on Tuesday night. Want to join us? Drop your name in the… hat. Okay, it’s not a hat, but you get the idea.
Enter your name before [...]

Webcast: How to Build a Lean Startup, step-by-step

O’Reilly and Eric Ries are doing an interesting webcast - Webcast: How to Build a Lean Startup, step-by-step. Having recently waded into this end of the pool - I’m getting a lot out of the whole lean startup idea. No great surprise, since it extends what I’m familiar with, from within product development, to all the [...]

Intriguing (and radical) approach on how to operate a business

Check out  ”The Open Company - Running your business as if it were an Open Source Project. It describes a radical approach (at least from my POV) on how to operate a business. I’m not a business operations person, so I don’t have the chops to completely evaluate the proposition here ahead of time. However, [...]

Build a personal relationship manager on LinkedIn… maybe

I’ve always wanted some simple ‘personal relationship manager’, i.e. the problem is that I’ve got friends and acquaintances I want to keep up with - but I am lousy at reminding myself to follow-up when I don’t see them regularly. I want a way to:

get a dashboard that shows me what’s new with people in [...]