Archive | February, 2009

Playing this weekend – Fable 2

Weekend is coming, what video-games will you play this weekend to take your mind out of work, crisis and everything? I’ve finished Fable 2 recently but I’ve still got a few quests left, so I might as well give a little review. Fable 2 is the expected sequel to the first Fable (duh) game which [...]

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Ruby on Rails Workshop

Last week I co-organized with Emanuel Mota a Workshop on Ruby on Rails for PrimeIT.  Each day had a 2 hour session. The first day was dedicated to the Ruby programming language, it’s history, advantages and why it was chosen as the backbone for the Ruby on Rails framework. The end of the session was [...]

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New Think Orange Moo Cards on the way

Last week, I asked for some help on choosing our new cards from Moo. I presented several designs and used Survs to create a quick survey where the crowd could vote on their favourite card and leave a comment if it was rubbish. I also offered 20 Survs licences for the basic 6 month account. [...]

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Vote on the new Think Orange MOO cards

At Think Orange we’re preparing new business cards but we can’t decide which design is the best one. So why not let the crowd decide? We’ve put together 10 diferent designs for the cards we’re going to order from MOO and we want you to be part of the decision process. Take the survey and [...]

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compiling readline into an existing Ruby installation

Yesterday I ran into a problem on a existing Ruby installation on a Centos server. When I tried to access script/console, I got the following error: require’: no such file to load — readline (LoadError) Doh! Turns out, the solution is to simply compile readline again. So you need to download Ruby again: wget ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.8/ruby-1.8.7-p72.tar.gz [...]

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