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Mephisto to WordPress, part 1

doug — Fri, 08 May 2009 19:17:26 +0000

I finally was able to get the old blog content moved from mephisto to wordpress. Trying to find the time to do it was the most difficult thing. Some of the formatting came out weird and I did not import any of the comments. For me, no big deal. This blog has been mostly ignored but, I swear to myself I’m going to start posting more quality content. We’ll see. Will post mephiso to wordpress script I used soon…

Getting git +svn branches to follow remote branch

doug — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 18:44:00 +0000

Andy Delcambre and Robby Russell both have excellent articles about getting up and running with git as an subversion client.

The one thing that had been getting me was the fact that the branch I created locally did not always stick to following the remote branch. It would start out that way, but once I checked out the master branch again, it would not always and definitely not consistently point toward the remote branch once I re-checked out my branch.

I finally figured out that the local and remote branch must be named differently. The character case matters! So if I had a remote branch of ITR-FOO and a local branch of itr-foo, it would loose track of the remote branch. The easy solution is to name the branches differently by using a “-” remotely and a “_” locally for names or just name the branches differently. Now, I use ITR-FOO remotely and itr_foo locally, or shorten the local name to itr_promos if I am using ITR-PROMOTIONS remotely.

For merging branching, using git is so much simpler, even if it is very retarded sometimes.

MileMeter has Launched

doug — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 17:52:00 +0000

After a year of work, my company MileMeter has launched. We sell auto insurance by the mile with no vehicle tracking devices involved.

A big hats off to Chris Gay for working so hard for so many years so that we can could get to this point. Insurance rules had to be changed and it was difficult for many people to see the benefit selling insurance this way.

We are also one of very few, if not the only insurance company powered entirely by Ruby It certainly gave us an advantage as we were able to get a robust, well tested application out the door so quickly.

ruby-mysql-osx

doug — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:35:00 +0000

I keep having to look this up…..
sudo env ARCHFLAGS=“-arch i386” gem install mysql — —with-mysql-config=/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql_config

Pradipta’s Rolodex

doug — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 23:24:00 +0000

I woke up this morning to a 40+ thread of emails which originated by a recruiter sending 416 people job posting, all via TO:

It quickly turned into a somewhat fun conversation with lots of people and jokes. Rather quickly a google group named Pradipta’s Rolodex was created. Also followed was a Wikipedia entry (quickly deleted by Wikipedia admins), a FaceBook group, at least one domain registration as well as posts to Digg, Reddit and others.

Oh, the friday fun…..

Rspec Test render(:nothing = true)

doug — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 02:15:00 +0000

I was trying to test one of my controllers was successfully hitting the render(:nothing = true) block. I could not find anything specifically in the API which handled this senario, so I ended up using have_text with a space as an argument.

@response.should have_text(" ")

Vote for Milemeter at AWS Startup Challenge

doug — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 01:19:00 +0000

Go vote for Milemeter at AWS Startup Challenge and keep me gainfully employed!

We are proud to be 1 of 7 Finalist for the Amazon.com AWS Startup Challenge and will give our presentation next week at Amazon.com HQ. Milemeter is an innovative insurance start-up that will offer “auto insurance buy the mile”.

Please Vote for Milemeter!

Update: Congratulations to Ooyala for winning the AWS Startup Challenge.

Quote of the Day

doug — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 21:27:00 +0000

This one is from my 4 year old. While walking through the womens department with my wife, they come across the bras. There was one particularly large white bra hanging on the end of a rack. Tommy stopped and studied it for a minute then proclaimed “Look mommy, that’s where the penguins live”.

Testing private and protected methods with ruby

doug — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 22:48:00 +0000

When I have to test my protected and private methods in ruby, I make the methods public for the scope of the test.

MyClass.send(:public, *MyClass.protected_instance_methods) MyClass.send(:public, *MyClass.private_instance_methods)

Just place this code in your testing class substituting your class name. Include the namespace if applicable.

Transfer email from one google account to another

doug — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 18:22:00 +0000

I recently signed up the netinlet.com email for Google apps for you domain

I had all my mail funneling to a gmail account to begin with, so I need to get all that email from the first google account to the new google apps account.

You can do with with POP, but you have to put in a different pop server name. Use pop.googlemail.com instead of pop.gmail.com. pop.gmail.com will not allow you to access via pop. Go figure.

Everything else stays the same, just make sure to use ssl on port 995.

The process takes a while. Mine has been running for about a half an hour and has only pulled over 300 emails so far. I have mine setup to pull over all email, so everything (INBOX, SENT, ARCHIVED) gets stuck into the inbox on the google apps account.