The First Things This week, the first thing I did was give a solid read to Mark Phillip’s Blog “themarkphillips” (@pharkmillups). Here’s a break down of some entries I found really interesting and helpful in getting kick started here at Basho (or just really a good read in and of itself): Using Open Source to... Continue reading →

I’ve been working with Rails now for about 3 months. At first I jumped right in like a bull in a china shop. I have since, suffered the frustration of doing so. I’ve experimented on OS-X, Windows, and Linux (primarily the Ubuntu Distro). Among these three operating systems, getting up and running with rails is... Continue reading →

I went to reinstall RVM (Ruby Version Manager) and got a message that the command wasn’t available. I realized, after fiddling around for a while that I didn’t have bash setup, and I had tried to run the standard quick install… just go to the blog entry. 😛 You can see all the bash &... Continue reading →

A few steps when setting up Gemsets with RVM. With a few other commands that can often be helpful. Just a quick Friday night entry… cheers! Functionality by line: Get a list of the current available gemsets. Creates a gemset called theNameOfTheSiteToCreate. Lists the name of the current gemset. Delete the gemset named theNameOfTheSiteToCreate. This... Continue reading →

Years ago I worked with Linux (Redhat 3.2, SUSE, Gentoo, and Slackware among others) and also played around with PHP. I’ve never really gotten too keen in PHP, mainly because it just seemed sort of a mess. But when I needed something to get the job done and didn’t want to wait on the bureaucratic... Continue reading →