Ubuntu vs Ruby
If Ubuntu 12.04 if a LTS release, and Ruby 1.8.7 goes out of support in June of 2013, then why is the default still 1.8.7?
Ruby 1.9.2 was released in 2010. Ruby 1.9.3 was released in October of this year.
It’s just data
If Ubuntu 12.04 if a LTS release, and Ruby 1.8.7 goes out of support in June of 2013, then why is the default still 1.8.7?
Ruby 1.9.2 was released in 2010. Ruby 1.9.3 was released in October of this year.
The git vs svn permathread seems to have reignited at the ASF, and I thought I would describe some of my actual experiences with git in the hopes that it will help anchor the discussion.
I wonder how many people who are diss’ing Dart on Twitter and elsewhere have actually tried the building the language?
Knowing that Thunderbird was going to be upgraded in Ubuntu 11.10, I took a look at the one extension I use, and found that it was not compatible. I know I could hack it, but if things went wrong down the line, I would rather understand what I was dealing with. Particularly, as my needs are meager: I simply wanted to create a button that would invoke fetchmail.
Andreas Bovens: we’ve decided to stop throwing draconian XML parsing failed error messages, and instead, attempt to reparse the document automatically as HTML.
Dave Thomas & Andy Hunt: Rails 3.1 introduces many user-facing changes, and this eBook release of Agile Web Development with Rails, 4th Ed. has been updated to match all the latest changes and new best practices.
Released virtually simultaneously with the Rails release.
Experiences with a clean install of Snow Leopard on a 2008 vintage mac-mini: sleep/wakeup issues, getting suexec working, RVM, installing and uninstalling MySQL, and playing with Mail app.
Sqlite3 3.7.4 doesn’t like Mac OSX 10.5.8. Rails 3.1 doesn’t like sqlite3-ruby -v 1.2.5. Neither Best Buy nor Apple will sell me Snow Leopard; not from their Brick and Mortar stores nor online. Nor is Lion an option as upgrading to Snow Leopard is a prerequisite.
If anybody has any suggestions, please let me know. Meanwhile, I can say this: while every previous version of Agile Web Development had screenshots of Safari on a Mac, the next update will have screenshots of Chrome on Ubuntu.
On Monday, July 27th, 1981 I reported for my first day at work at the IBM Federal System Division offices in Gaithersburg Maryland. Much has changed in those thirty years. While I have no immediate plans to retire, I must say that it feels rather odd to be in a position where I could chose to do so at any time.
Ian Skerrett: Some of those people that oppose the move are promoting ideology about open source software that is just wrong. Luckily I am here to correct them.
Rob Weir: As you have probably heard, Oracle has followed through with their earlier promise to “move OpenOffice.org to a purely community-based open source project.” OpenOffice is moving to Apache. I’d like to offer you my own thoughts on this new opportunity and what it means. I recommend also the insights of my colleagues Ed Brill and Bob Sutor.
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Håkon A. Hjortland: For people who are just interested in a quick and dirty fix right here and now, here’s the gist
Affects Ubuntu 11.04 (a.k.a., "Natty Narwhal"). Fix works for me.
The W3C HTML Working Group recently had a preference poll on which license should be used for the HTML specification. As directed, the W3C PSIG prepared three non-forkable license options. Additionally, Mozilla provided two forkable license options.
For better or worse, the W3C is a member organization. I’ve broken out the results by affiliation.
Sally Khudairi: The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) has received a United States District Court subpoena requiring the production of documents related to the use of Apache Harmony code in the Android software platform, and the unsuccessful attempt by Apache to secure an acceptable license to the Java SE Technology Compatibility Kit.
Ryan Dahl: By strongly basing our policy on the one used by the Apache Software Foundation we feel that we’ve created a policy which is liberal enough to allow the open source community to easily make use of the mark in the context of free open source software, but secure enough to protect the community’s work from being misrepresented by other organisations.
Did a fresh install this morning. It installed in minutes, and after copying back over my files and installing some of my favorite applications, I was up and running. No problems with networking, video, sound, or hibernation.
It is nice to have the same interface on my desktop and my netbook again. I did manage to find a weather indicator, which replaces the weather applet.
I like that Unity encourages me to reuse existing windows instead of continually opening new ones.
Xavier Noria: In Rails 3.1 jQuery is going to be the default JavaScript library. Also, RJS has been extracted out.
David Heinemeier Hansson: Move the asset template engines to the user-generated Gemfile
In order to moderate a W3C mailing list, one needs to be able to bounce a message. This apparently isn’t directly possible with gmail, but can be worked around manually:
X-From_:
. Copy this line to the top of the file, then modify that first line by removing the X-
and _:
characters. Save the file.mutt -f mail.google.com
) and use the b
command to bounce the message. Enter the name of the mailing list (example: public-html@w3.org
), press enter and then y
to confirm.Perhaps if I need to do this often enough, I’ll automate the process, but for now these notes will help should I need to do the process again in the future.
Dave Thomas & Andy Hunt: It’s no April Fool’s joke, the long-anticipated Agile Web Development with Rails, 4th Edition for Rails 3 is now in print and shipping.