The time has come to move on. If you like what you were reading, please follow me in my new site at http://amiridis.net
The new site is under construction so please be patient as I add more features to it, such as RSS feeds etc.
I use Ruby on Rails to create the site from scratch.
This site will no longer be available starting from tomorrow.
I really liked the following TED speech by Simon Sinek:
I upgraded Ubuntu 9.10 to 10.04. Everything was cool. I tried to work on a Rails project I am involved by issuing the command rake db:migrate to update the database.
I was getting the following error:
Error: uninitialized constant MysqlCompat::MysqlRes
Then I uninstalled the mysql gem and tried to install it again only to get the following error:
Building native extensions. This could take a while... ERROR: While executing gem ... (Gem::Installer::ExtensionBuildError) ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.
Then I issued the following command:
sudo apt-get install libmysqlclient-dev
and then installed mysql gem and it installed with no problems. Finally, rake db:migrate worked again.
I was thinking about this for a long time. I want to move my blog to something else that will look like a blog but not exactly. It is going to be on a different URL too. There are four reasons behind this decision:
As a programmer, I want to be a wise guy and also break the rule “Don’t reinvent the wheel”. I will not use any blogging or CMS platform. I will rather create it from scratch using Rails. Please feel free to call me names.
More about the move later. When everything is ready, I will notify you through the last post for this blog.
We are using instant messaging a lot (IM). Our team is working remotely and IM helps us communicate. I have realized that communicating using IM can be rather difficult sometimes. One of the reasons is the lack of visual contact. The two (or more) chatting parties cannot show their body language.
If you are using zsh as your terminal in Ubuntu, you can use a built in feature to display version control information at the prompt.
After reading “Zsh Prompt Magic” I created the zsh_vcs_info file which you can download. You place it in your home directory and open .zshrc and add the following line:
source /home/user/.zsh_vcs_info
Notice that I added a . (dot) in the filename because I want it to be hidden. Also, notice that “user” in the path above, is the username of the account you use to log into Ubuntu.
As a remote team with dispersed team members, we need to find ways to stay connected, motivated and committed. We thought of borrowing something from Scrum and try it out. It’s the Daily Scrum Meeting or Daily Stand Up and we have decided to try it for 30 days and see if we like it or not.
In a previous post I mentioned that I started maintaining a set of helper Ruby classes for working with barcodes. I have changed the structure of the project to make it a gem and I have published it on GemCutter.
In my day job, I work a lot with barcodes. We develop Windows Mobile software for devices with barcode readers. From time to time, I need to do file manipulation chores. That is: colleagues give me text files that contain barcodes and ask me to transform these.
If you follow me, you know by now that me and my team (4 people in total) started working remotely. I was wondering what to write for Blog Action Day. I decided it would be cool if I could calculate some numbers that showed how we affect our environment in a positive way.
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