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 found reference to Making Fluid Ssbs Browse Only Pages You Want - fluidapp | Google Groups.
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.
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 make a change in the sphinx.
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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 for a couple of years
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 our scrum practices (e.g. sprint planning, release planning) and began to smooth our rhythm out until we ended up, more or less, as continuous-flow.
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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 streams of work that makes up a startup
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, there are some intrigiung ideas in this article and I love where this could lead (not to mention the potential to upset the apple cart).
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 my social networks organize the dashboard based on some heuristics on what social networks are more important than others (e.