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Yes, Leopard is that great, but getting a full Rails Stack working again is a lot of work…. (work in progress) Ruby / Rails Ruby and Rails are bundled with Leopard. Be sure to read about the Apple modifications What’s new in Leopard The rails command defaults to sqlite as it’s database. Use: $ rails -d mysql project_name MySQL Download 10.4 package from MySQL and install both the mysql and the startupitem. ...

Suppose you were to come upon someone in the woods working feverishly to saw down a tree. “What are you doing?” you ask. “Can’t you see?” comes the impatient reply. “I’m sawing down this tree.” “You look exhausted!” you exclaim. “How long have you been at it?” “Over five hours,” he returns, “and I’m beat! This is hard work.” “Well why don’t you take a break for a few minutes and sharpen that saw? ...

There’s an ugly political campaing running in Switzerland at the moment… Our right wing party is running ads against “criminal foreigners” and pictures them as black sheep… The implication of course is, that all criminal activity is from foreigners and all foreigners are criminals. Carole, Keith and I have done something about that: Get your sheep-shirt and show that we all are black sheep :) Technorati Tags: sheep, schaf-shirt, svp

While we wait for the iPhone in Switzerland: iphone-essentials.ch iphone-essentials.org Go yonder and spread the link love!

My next public speaking - or rather workshopping - event will be on 13.9.2007. CH-Open is holding their annual workshop days and I’ll be holding Workshop number 13 with the title: Ruby on Rails - Hype, “Business as usual” oder “The next big thing”? It’s going to be a one day workshop and my plan is to have the participants walk through the building of a complete (simple) web app, touching different issues (ease of development, test driven, scalability, enterprise ready) and giving them a feel for how Rails is handling those issues. ...

Wunderbares Lied - mehr davon bei Bodo Wartke selber via mac-essentials.de Technorati Tags: caberet, lyrik, mac, microsoft