Testing 1,2,3...

What's been happening in the last year?

Apparently y'all didn't get my last message about what a Civil War in the US would be like, because you brainless, programmable zombies went and shot Charlie Kirk.

Just some notes to myself, and anyone who might be reading this, who wants to give GhostBSD a shot using VMWare Fusion as their hypervisor.

We interrupt this narrative to discuss the election and politics in general.

Things in North Carolina started well.

Has it been 5 years since I posted anything here?

Another tip for myself, courtesy of a co-worker.

Mostly a note to self, this is how you can show your current git branch in Windows Powershell.

I had a little trouble building these from source with MSVC so I thought I'd record the issues I faced both so that I can refer back to this post if I forget, and perhaps help others along the way.

For anyone out there wondering how to do client side connections with Ruby and Azure, this should get you going.

After about 3 years of development and playtesting, my game "Hands in the Sea" is finally going to be published!

I built Ruby 2.1.2 from source and got all the desired 3rd party libs installed except readline.

Yet another "how to build" post mostly for my own reference, but you may find it useful.

If you haven't heard, RubyForge will be closing down for good on May 15th this year.

This is one of those posts I'm making for future reference because I always forget.

As I approach nearly 18 months of unemployment (save for 1 6-week gig in the middle there), I guess I should write a blog entry.

This is one of those postings I make for future reference where I explain how to install apxs on Windows.

I bought a new SSD laptop.

There are some interesting subtleties between the "current user" on Windows, depending on whether you're talking about threads or processes.

Well, my Kickstarter project failed.

I've decided to try to turn my Ruby on Windows expertise into a business via Kickstarter: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2050241756/winruby-commercial-and-open-source-support-for-rub Wish me luck!

So, my foray into building libyaml on Windows.

Lately I've converted a few of my smaller Ruby libraries that were using C extensions to use the ffi gem.

After finally getting my Solaris 10 VM reinstalled, along with a copy of Sun Studio Compiler 12, I decided to do some benchmarking.

We've pretty much reached the conclusion that ActiveRecord::Base.all, or .find(:all) if you prefer, should never be used without conditionals.