2, 12, 15, 20, 26, 75
December 7th, 2008By: Steven Haddox
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Some of you may know that I’m a huge fan of LOST (thanks to Katie). If you don’t, you do now. I was sitting here trying to figure out a quick way to blog about the month of December as I know I don’t have time to blog as much as I should and I realized that numbers are pretty much a representation of how this month is for me. So here comes the explanations:
- 2: The number of years Katie and I have been married (as of December 2, 2008).
- 12: The number of hours I am trying to work on average each day to earn some savings for possible unemployment come January 1, 2009.
- 15: Paisley’s age in months currently.
- 20: Katie’s age in years currently.
- 26: My age in years (as of yesterday).
- 75: The number of lightbulbs we replaced on our Candy Land tree in order to get one of the two missing strands of lights to work again this year.
I’ll take a quick moment to go over some of these in more details. Read the rest of this entry »
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Installing ruby-mysql on OS X Leopard
October 23rd, 2008By: Steven Haddox
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So I was receiving a lovely deprecation warning from Rails tonight that if I didn’t install the C-library mysql adapter for Ruby then my applications would stop working in my environment when Rails 2.2 is released. I decided it couldn’t be too hard to install the adapter and found out that there are a few problems with using the default gem install mysql when you are running the OS X Leopard mysql.com installation.
Anyway, the short and sweet of this is that there is a solution if your mysql gem install is giving you grief in Leopard. Simply run the following command and take note of the options in the parameter –cflags after the -I/usr/local/mysql/include directory. Those options will need to be passed in as your ARCHFLAGS value when you execute your gem install:
$ mysql_config
Usage: /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql_config [OPTIONS]
Options:
--cflags [-I/usr/local/mysql/include -Os -arch x86_64 -fno-common]
--include [-I/usr/local/mysql/include]
--libs [-L/usr/local/mysql/lib -lmysqlclient -lz -lm]
--libs_r [-L/usr/local/mysql/lib -lmysqlclient_r -lz -lm]
--socket [/tmp/mysql.sock]
--port [3306]
--version [5.0.51b]
--libmysqld-libs [-L/usr/local/mysql/lib -lmysqld -lz -lm]
In my instance (on a Mac Pro and MacBook Pro) I was able to get ruby-mysql working with the following command:
$ sudo env ARCHFLAGS="-Os -arch x86_64 -fno-common" gem install mysql -- --with-mysql-config=/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql_config
Mac Apps I Can’t Live Without
May 14th, 2008By: Steven Haddox
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Here’s a list of Mac Applications I use frequently (for the most part), and the ones I use less frequently are ones that I’ve found fit my target niche or some need perfectly:
Graphic design apps: Pixelmator, VectorDesigner, Photoshop, Digital Color Meter (available by default in utilities, few know of it)
Web development apps: TextMate Read the rest of this entry »
