Archive for June 2009

Rock climbing software problems

This one goes to Brian who got me back to climbing after all these years.

I used to rock climb a lot. It’s one of the few sports I cherished for the longest time before I ran out of time to focus on it. There are striking similarities between rock climbing and writing software and analytical thinking to reduce problems to its bare essence. Yes, I’ve climbed the Cathedral Peak and Royal Arches with lots of unexpected happenings, inspite of the training.

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Ruby 1.9.1 package for CentOS/RHEL4

While I like CentOS/RHEL as a distro, it does tend to be out of date for a lot of packages; especially if that software isn’t considered fully stable. One package in particular is Ruby 1.9, which has many critical improvements (real threads!) compared to v1.8. After a lot of searching came up empty, I grabbed the RPM spec file from the OpenPKG project and ported it to CentOS/RHEL4. Full Post »

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