I’ve begun playing with git over at github by importing Reve’s source.
Eventually I will do away with subversion and trac and move to github for Reve completely. Trac is not very good and often locks up.
As I’m still new with git and github I’ll have to keep contributions to a minimum since I don’t know exactly what I’m doing.
There’s a new revision of Reve that has just been uploaded to Rubyforge: Revision 99.
This includes a major change - Reve is now licensed under a proper license: the MIT License. The terms of the license are now distributed with the package and are.
There is also a fix for the character_id that came back from a market order request.
Why a new license now? Simply because I think it’s important to realise that it’s unlikely that anyone will use Reve to create some billion dollar enterprise that I could have got in on. Yeah, not everyone can be Delicious, Flickr or Facebook. ha ha.
So go forth, ye multitudes and fix, hax, and use. Ruby and Rails both use the MIT license so now Reve should be at home.
Today CCP announced the release of their MS SQL dump. Following in step with past conversions here is a Postgres version. Tested with 8.0.15 but should work on everything.
This dump is odd: CCP is using integers where they mean to use booleans. So in those cases remember 1 is true, 0 is false. Good luck.
Edit: As a note the Eve Online Database Viewer is updated with this dump.
Edit 2 (July 31, 2008): I nearly forgot to give props to bunjiboys for providing the .sql files from which the above dump is derrived.
If you've got a boat load of legacy fixtures laying around (and who doesn't?) it can be a pain now that Rails handles the ID of objects so you don't have to.
On the train back from holiday I wrote a snippet of code to migrate them:
The use is:
Copy/paste into corporations.yml
So far it's working great!
Lately the rails-core mail list has declined in quality. Spammers have moved in and operate unfettered. Reporting offenders to Google does nothing.
In fact, in order to isolate my personal mail from spam and to keep dspam from getting very confused I've moved the rails-core list to a google mail account. It's a shame but I'm more interested in keeping my other mail free from spam and the dspam quarantine free from ham. Isolation of rails-core until Google can get the spammers off their lists will accomplish the goal.
Here's a quick announcement to let people know that Reve (0.0.96) now supports Factional Warfare.
The cool new things are:
I know the documentation may not be the best, but I'll do my best to improve it for the next release.
Grab the new gem (0.0.96) and give it a whirl!
Recently a friend of mine (Sarah) purchased a dedicated server at a hosting company and moved her data to it. Obviously she was in need of a backup solution. She chose Amanda 2.6.0 and to use S3 as her "tape" choice.
Seeing how well it worked for her I asked her to show me how it worked and now my server is also using Amanda to backup to S3. Recovery works with amrecover.
I have quite a bit of data to back up (4.5GB in /home, for example) and with a home DSL connection it takes a long time. However with a bigger pipe using S3 and Amanda would be extremely viable.
I'm very happy with the solution and will likely use it across all of my servers from now on.
For my laptop I'm still using JungleDisk, which seems to work fine. 2.0 is a very good improvement.
Just a quick note. There's a new Reve gem out as of June 7th. This one's release notes are:
The code changes can be seen At the Reve Trac.
Yesterday we launched Mini Match, an application me and my colleagues from work wrote for Cartoon Network.
Late last year we opened a beta that was, unfortunately, short lived. Friday (May 30, 2008) we opened the system up on a much improved codebase for a few hours and had all systems "green". Based on the positive success from Friday we opened it up yesterday.
It opened slowly at first with just a small advertisement on the Cartoon Network Games' Page, and then a larger one on the same page and then we made the Cartoon Network home page with a small advertisement again. Today, I reckon, a larger advertisement will be put on the front page and we'll really start to see traffic!
Some details on the application:
The Rails part is RESTful (for the most part) and is the "glue" of the application, to quote someone from IRC.
Today should be a fun day!
This coming Monday I'm flying off to Atlanta, Georgia for the week. Not keen on going as Atlanta is like descending into the armpit of summer. I'm hoping that the weather co-operates and I don't melt. 
I'm flying down there for work, we're beta launching a product for a customer (that's based in Atlanta - go figure) and they (the customer) have requested a contingent of us from work be on site for the release. So it's me and two others from the UK.
We're down on Monday then flying back home on Friday evening - I'm hoping to be in bed by midnight (landing 22:05 - 30 minute taxi home, getting bags and immigration and such). A SysAdmin that works for our customer suggested Zuma sushi bar to me for sushi. I like sushi a lot and hope to stop in for some glorious sushi.
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