The Roly Norman Empire

Announcing the RunCodeRun Gem

Sep 29th

I’m totally gonna tour scenes from the Wire at railsconf

Sep 28th

cap staging chef:solo

Sep 28th

Bitcetera: autotest-fsevent

Sep 27th

So there are like 5 different file sys event wrappers in Ruby, and I wonder if any of them work in...

Sep 27th

RT @developer_day: Today’s the last full day to get the early bird rate for #developer_day in...

Sep 24th

On Ruby 1.9.2 delayed in favour of RubySpec compliance: http://tinyurl.com/nw8cvl (thanks to...

Sep 23rd

Looking forward to the source package coming in Chef 0.7.12 (hopefully); will clean up a lot of...

Sep 22nd

is it just me, or are ubuntu 9+ images much faster to boot on ec2 ? maybe a transient thing?

Sep 22nd

HowToLearnMoreScalability - memcached - ...

Sep 21st

So genius mixes are like Pandora, only with music you’ve already heard before. I guess its...

Sep 21st

Fun fact learned through RunCodeRun gem mgt: Rails 2.3.1 disappeared completely from the internet,...

Sep 21st

OH at barnes & noble tonight in kids secton: “OW! You scratched me! Right in my EYE!

Sep 21st

Sick and trying to take care of the kids is the worst. Just want to sleep.

Sep 21st

Matthew Todd » Rails tip #4: Writing...

Sep 19th

More Capistrano 2 goodies: A Radiant recipe...

Sep 19th

Helping my wife with java homework makes me hate java so much more. What a horrible language to...

Sep 19th

TV Show Music | Shows | Friday Night Lights...

Sep 17th

How To Do A Fresh Install of Snow Leopard and...

Sep 17th

redis-rb forked, building on runcoderun on ruby 186 & 191: http://bit.ly/1TnT1K

Sep 17th

RunCodeRun adds support for Ruby 1.9 along side 1.8.6 — no more excuses! green on 1.9:...

Sep 16th

slight hiccup w/ Ruby 1.9/Object#=~ but it was caught by @runcoderun http://bit.ly/12fJlU and is...

Sep 16th

Man #github cannot get on the new servers fast enough…using just about anything in the web UI...

Sep 16th

Some day I will combine my 4 different itunes libraries and figure out a way to make it all work...

Sep 14th

MacBook pro spinning and stuck on startup yet again. Guess I have to reimage soon. I hate computers

Sep 14th

Sprained my foot in a serious way last night. Gonna be hobbling for awhile methinks

Sep 13th

Registered for Rubyconf; confused by the location of Burlingame, Ca — is that just an outlying...

Sep 12th

Really tired of the disconnect between my personal gmail accounts and hosted accounts. Can’t...

Sep 12th

Wife was asked “does anyone know what recursion is?” in CS 115 class; She answered with...

Sep 12th

Performance Comparison:Remote Usage, NFS,...

Sep 11th

Featured Ruby 1.9 Projects : RunCodeRun

Sep 11th

Tagaholic - Building DRY Gems With Thor And...

Sep 11th

what does it mean when my macbook pro is plugged into AC adapter, but intermittently not charging?...

Sep 11th

#runcoderun is a nice laboratory for exposing crazy bugs like this rubygems/ruby19 bug:...

Sep 11th

abhishek.geek.nz - Before you start learning...

Sep 9th

test/helpers/acceptance/git_helper.rb at...

Sep 9th

You’ve Got Java in My Ruby | Engine Yard Blog

Sep 9th

-- annoying github, git, jeweler, ruby gem...

Sep 9th

Ruby / Process management - WhyNotWiki

Sep 9th

dear twitter friends and family: do you eat the rind on brie, or scrape it off?

Sep 8th

OH: “do you think Heath Bar is old people’s candy?”

Sep 8th

Successful build for...

Sep 7th

msg me if you *know* your RubyGem/Library’s test suite is green on 1.9 _and_ 1.8.6, we are...

Sep 7th

ruby 1.9, rubygems, and specification warnings have really screwed the pooch tonight

Sep 7th

Oh child why won’t you sleep?

Sep 6th

the job queue, she seems slow tonight. #github

Sep 6th

“I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old...

Sep 6th

Converge, Mastodon, Dethklok, High on Fire in Charlotte, NC on November 4th — any NC folks...

Sep 4th

Labnotes » Setting up Hudson for a Rails...

Sep 3rd

Riding Rails: Gem Packaging: Best Practices

Sep 3rd

Fun fact of the day: loading ActiveMerchant as a plugin *breaks* Clearance routes #standup

Sep 3rd

I wish I could find headphones that last. I’ve tried Grado 60s, 80s, and Sennheiser PX100s and...

Sep 3rd

OH on _why’s disappearance: maybe it was the Daemon.

Sep 3rd

Java SE 6 Mac OS X 10.4.5 binary (Intel) «...

Sep 2nd

We launched our $19/month plan for RunCodeRun - [ANN]: http://bit.ly/fMmSH signup:...

Sep 2nd

Storing 67 terabytes for $7800 dollars…backblaze is pretty crazy http://bit.ly/pzX49

Sep 2nd