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The End of RubyForge
If you haven't heard, RubyForge will be closing down for good on May 15th this year. This is truly the end of an era.
RubyForge began on July 22, 2003. You can see the original announcement here. The kind folks at InfoEther (namely Rich Kilmer and Tom Copeland) had given a nascent Ruby community a place to host projects, not just list them as the ( Read more... ) -
Building zlib with Visual Studio
This is one of those posts I'm making for future reference because I always forget ( Read more... ) -
The Joys of Unemployment
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. What the hell have I been doing in that time ( Read more... ) -
Installing apxs on Windows 7
This is one of those postings I make for future reference where I explain how to install apxs on Windows.
First, assuming you have ActiveState Perl installed, run "ppm install MinGW".
Second, grab the apxs source here and unzip and untar it somewhere. Then cd to the apxs directory where you just unzipped it ( Read more... ) -
New laptop, no more dual boots
I bought a new SSD laptop. It's nice. It's light. It's fast. The battery life is awesome. Why? Because my old laptop died. Motherboard is kaput. What happened ( Read more... ) -
Subtleties of the "current user" on Windows
There are some interesting subtleties between the "current user" on Windows, depending on whether you're talking about threads or processes. On Windows a thread can essentially run as a user different from the process it's created in. From MSDN ( Read more... ) -
Kickstarter failure and observations
Well, my Kickstarter project failed. It's a shame but perhaps it's for the best. It definitely let me know that the market for Ruby on Windows isn't anywhere near what I thought it was. It also taught me a few other things. You may not like this ( Read more... ) -
Kickstarter
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
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How I built libyaml on Windows with MSVC++
So, my foray into building libyaml on Windows. I don't know if this is the right solution, but it worked for me. Anyway, back to the story ( Read more... ) -
More FFI
Lately I've converted a few of my smaller Ruby libraries that were using C extensions to use the ffi gem. Specifically, sys-cpu, sys-uname and sys-uptime now all use FFI behind the scenes. They all now work with JRuby, too. Yay ( Read more... )