I'm an operator-grade peer to CEOs of post-PMF software companies when the work cuts across more than one seat at the table - when the standard functional moves keep widening the gap rather than closing it. The problem isn't function-shaped. There's no seat at the table exactly shaped for it.
Across CEO, CPTO, CPO, and CTO seats over six platform shifts, I've watched the same shape arrive: the company that should be moving but isn't.
The work: I diagnose the actual shape, embed alongside the CEO for a bounded window, and transition into the right permanent structure on the other side.
What makes it hard isn't only the technical and operational dimension - it's the human-systems read underneath: what's actually happening between people in the leadership team, not just what's on the whiteboard. Get that read wrong, and the engagement falls apart under stress. Get it right, and you've unlocked the next level.
Four exits. Engagements are bounded, with capability transfer on the back end.
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 found reference to Making Fluid Ssbs Browse Only Pages You Want - fluidapp | Google Groups.
All I had to do was to add launchpad.37signals.com to my whitelist of URL’s to browse in Fluid and it worked.
I’m posting this here so the next person may have a shorter route to find the answer.
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
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 make a change in the sphinx.conf file to tell sphinx indexer to use the mysql socket in /tmp/mysql.sock:
in some source …
{
sql_sock = /tmp/mysql.sock
…
}
Check sphinx_docs [SphinxWiki] for reference.