The Wil Shipley Interview

Mike — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 20:53:32 +0000

I don’t believe that I’ve kept the fact that I love the OS X application Delicious Library very secret. That is such a great application on many levels. The company, Delicious Monster, is going through a bit of a shake-up right now as their #2 guy moves on to Apple and they are still working on the 2.0 release of Library. However the #1 guy, Wil Shipley took the time to sit down and have a nice long interview on DrunkenBlog, which was posted today.

Its a great read for programmers and just those interested in how the company and their 1 and only product came about.

Link: On Being and Deliciousness, with Wil Shipley

Installing Ruby is a long-ass process.

Mike — Thu, 23 Jun 2005 21:17:57 +0000

I’m taking the plunge and I’ve decided I’m going to learn Ruby. The point of this is to learn Ruby On Rails. Ruby seems like a great language that has built-in support for all sorts of cool things that make websites more like regular apps.

So, first things first…I need to install Ruby and then Ruby On Rails. So I turn to my good buddy Warhol, my test Linux server that we have setup at work. Its running Fedora, a very common flavor of Linux. The install should be easy right? Um…wrong. Its not that its hard, but its a pain in the butt and the walk-through is long. Really long. Especially when you are missing dependencies and you have to install 10 other RPMs before you get started.

Here is the walkthrough specific to Fedora 3

It should be a fun language when you get to do some of the examples I’ve seen out there. I can’t wait to get into making some very slick Web 2.0 projects. Ok, rubygems just finished installing, so I need to go. I’ll keep you all posted.

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The Wil Shipley Interview

Installing Ruby is a long-ass process.