Comments for A Place for my head http://gnufied.org On Ruby, Rails, Concurrency and fiction Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:24:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 Comment on Amarok2 and redefinition of awesomeness by woodshit http://gnufied.org/2009/01/23/amarok2-and-redefinition-of-awesomeness/#comment-3497 woodshit Tue, 02 Feb 2010 07:12:32 +0000 http://gnufied.org/?p=119#comment-3497 it's 2 Feb 2010 and Amarok 2.2.2 is still a cry of pain it’s 2 Feb 2010 and Amarok 2.2.2 is still a cry of pain

]]> Comment on The guilty man speaks (of Mac OS X) by Kumar http://gnufied.org/2009/11/26/the-guilty-man-speaks-of-mac-os-x/#comment-3494 Kumar Mon, 01 Feb 2010 06:23:20 +0000 http://gnufied.org/?p=140#comment-3494 Well, for me it was a drastic change from the Windows Environment. I was overwhelmed with the MAC, but when I go home and login into my windows laptop, it's mayhem. I always have to remember, or at-least keep it at the back of my head, "Where am I". So, that I can switch to Windows or MAC mode. :) Well, for me it was a drastic change from the Windows Environment.

I was overwhelmed with the MAC, but when I go home and login into my windows laptop, it’s mayhem.

I always have to remember, or at-least keep it at the back of my head, “Where am I”. So, that I can switch to Windows or MAC mode. :)

]]> Comment on The guilty man speaks (of Mac OS X) by Sidu http://gnufied.org/2009/11/26/the-guilty-man-speaks-of-mac-os-x/#comment-3438 Sidu Thu, 10 Dec 2009 11:07:31 +0000 http://gnufied.org/?p=140#comment-3438 And BTW, I forgot to mention - Cocoa is the most awesomest UI framework ever. It hammers everything, Swing, SWT, WinForms, Qt, GTK etc. hands down. The guys at NextStep got it right; I wish the others had leaned from them. Try it out and tell me what you think. And the trackpad gestures (pinch, zoom, scroll) are simply awesome. And BTW, I forgot to mention - Cocoa is the most awesomest UI framework ever. It hammers everything, Swing, SWT, WinForms, Qt, GTK etc. hands down. The guys at NextStep got it right; I wish the others had leaned from them. Try it out and tell me what you think.

And the trackpad gestures (pinch, zoom, scroll) are simply awesome.

]]> Comment on The guilty man speaks (of Mac OS X) by Sidu http://gnufied.org/2009/11/26/the-guilty-man-speaks-of-mac-os-x/#comment-3437 Sidu Thu, 10 Dec 2009 11:04:22 +0000 http://gnufied.org/?p=140#comment-3437 The Command/ Ctrl conundrum is a problem especially on Java apps (I face the same issues on IntelliJ). Apps that follow OSX's UI guidelines (which is pretty much all native OSX apps) work very consistently. In fact all shortcuts are common across all apps (Command + , for preferences, for example). It took me a few months to get used to it (I was on Ubuntu before that) and it was pretty annoying. I persevered because some of my fellow hackers swore by OSX. Now, a year later, I wouldn't consider anything but a Mac Pro for my next laptop, and be damned to the expense (my current MacNook Pro is courtesy ThoughtWorks). BTW those hackers I mentioned earlier were hardcore FreeBSD, Gentoo and Fedora+KDE - they started on OSX with dual boot into their favourite OS, but now if you ask them they'll tell you it's been several months since they booted into anything but OSX. A few tools that might help: Visor, Growl, Disk Inventory X, Porticus, Skim, SMCFanControl, Sequential. You get used to the quirks of Darwin Ports after a bit; if you were a Gentoo/BSD guy you'd be right at home (ask them sometime and see how they crib about apt-get :)). The Command/ Ctrl conundrum is a problem especially on Java apps (I face the same issues on IntelliJ). Apps that follow OSX’s UI guidelines (which is pretty much all native OSX apps) work very consistently. In fact all shortcuts are common across all apps (Command + , for preferences, for example).

It took me a few months to get used to it (I was on Ubuntu before that) and it was pretty annoying. I persevered because some of my fellow hackers swore by OSX. Now, a year later, I wouldn’t consider anything but a Mac Pro for my next laptop, and be damned to the expense (my current MacNook Pro is courtesy ThoughtWorks). BTW those hackers I mentioned earlier were hardcore FreeBSD, Gentoo and Fedora+KDE - they started on OSX with dual boot into their favourite OS, but now if you ask them they’ll tell you it’s been several months since they booted into anything but OSX.

A few tools that might help: Visor, Growl, Disk Inventory X, Porticus, Skim, SMCFanControl, Sequential.

You get used to the quirks of Darwin Ports after a bit; if you were a Gentoo/BSD guy you’d be right at home (ask them sometime and see how they crib about apt-get :)).

]]> Comment on About by Vlad http://gnufied.org/about/#comment-3432 Vlad Sat, 05 Dec 2009 05:55:09 +0000 #comment-3432 hi Hemant, we are using the old (1.0.1) version of bdrb with cron scheduler. I tried to switch to the latest version for our 2.2 Rails project and I had lots of problems with things like 2.minutes and other Railsy stuff. E.g. can't convert ActiveSupport::Duration into time interval Any advice? Vlad hi Hemant,

we are using the old (1.0.1) version of bdrb with cron scheduler. I tried to switch to the latest version for our 2.2 Rails project and I had lots of problems with things like 2.minutes and other Railsy stuff. E.g.

can’t convert ActiveSupport::Duration into time interval

Any advice?

Vlad

]]> Comment on The guilty man speaks (of Mac OS X) by Hemant http://gnufied.org/2009/11/26/the-guilty-man-speaks-of-mac-os-x/#comment-3425 Hemant Sat, 28 Nov 2009 09:50:05 +0000 http://gnufied.org/?p=140#comment-3425 Toni, There is a bunch of stuff thats broken in Macports because of Snow Leopard update. Moreover, ports packages are still external to System and thus say if I do, "port install mercurial", I will end up with one more version of Python on my machine (not a agreeable situation imho). And yeah I am loving spaces, but there do not map to screens (which is different display altogether). Toni,

There is a bunch of stuff thats broken in Macports because of Snow Leopard update. Moreover, ports packages are still external to System and thus say if I do, “port install mercurial”, I will end up with one more version of Python on my machine (not a agreeable situation imho).

And yeah I am loving spaces, but there do not map to screens (which is different display altogether).

]]> Comment on The guilty man speaks (of Mac OS X) by Toni Bergholm http://gnufied.org/2009/11/26/the-guilty-man-speaks-of-mac-os-x/#comment-3424 Toni Bergholm Sat, 28 Nov 2009 07:09:54 +0000 http://gnufied.org/?p=140#comment-3424 for apt-get, try http://www.macports.org/install.php actually it's more like free/openbsd like package management, but you can install easily opensource libs/apps. In OS X there is spaces that give you multiple desktops and you can set applications to start on which ever desktop you want. for apt-get, try http://www.macports.org/install.php
actually it’s more like free/openbsd like package management, but you can install easily opensource libs/apps.

In OS X there is spaces that give you multiple desktops and you can set applications to start on which ever desktop you want.

]]> Comment on Your Comet Server In Scala by Hemant http://gnufied.org/2008/05/21/your-comet-server-in-scala/#comment-3423 Hemant Thu, 26 Nov 2009 17:15:46 +0000 http://gnufied.org/2008/05/21/your-comet-server-in-scala/#comment-3423 I am truly sorry to disappoint you. But the moment, I wrote this article I was in talks with my employer to open source the Eventmachine port of Scala and open source the Comet Server. Recently, I have switched jobs and my previous employer is no longer interested in open sourcing that stuff and so I am stuck. I am truly sorry to disappoint you. But the moment, I wrote this article I was in talks with my employer to open source the Eventmachine port of Scala and open source the Comet Server.

Recently, I have switched jobs and my previous employer is no longer interested in open sourcing that stuff and so I am stuck.

]]> Comment on Your Comet Server In Scala by Anonymous http://gnufied.org/2008/05/21/your-comet-server-in-scala/#comment-3339 Anonymous Thu, 29 Oct 2009 08:52:06 +0000 http://gnufied.org/2008/05/21/your-comet-server-in-scala/#comment-3339 Im sorry, but i can't seem to be able to find an actual "comet" server here (or anything even remotely resembling one)? Just a pretty basic TCP/IP networking library and server. By that definition we should be calling any network program able to listen for incoming connections a comet server (and netcat the ultimate comet swiss army knife). All in all a very misleading title and post about Scala comet server which seems to only serve the purpose of promoting your own commercial app (and technology behind it). Im sorry, but i can’t seem to be able to find an actual “comet” server here (or anything even remotely resembling one)? Just a pretty basic TCP/IP networking library and server. By that definition we should be calling any network program able to listen for incoming connections a comet server (and netcat the ultimate comet swiss army knife).

All in all a very misleading title and post about Scala comet server which seems to only serve the purpose of promoting your own commercial app (and technology behind it).

]]> Comment on About by Aaditi http://gnufied.org/about/#comment-3337 Aaditi Thu, 22 Oct 2009 01:37:01 +0000 #comment-3337 Hi Hemant, Where can I found the documentation for 1.1? The one on the http://backgroundrb.rubyforge.org/manual/index.html is kind of outdated. MiddleMan syntax has changed quite a bit. Can you please please help me? Regards, Aaditi. Hi Hemant,

Where can I found the documentation for 1.1?
The one on the http://backgroundrb.rubyforge.org/manual/index.html is kind of outdated.
MiddleMan syntax has changed quite a bit.
Can you please please help me?

Regards,
Aaditi.

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