Double Shot #29

Posted by Mike
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I’m just about back to a full-time freelancing career. Trading the loss of steady income for flexbility is always a gamble, but I feel good about it.

  • Ubuntu breezy badger installation for RMagick – I found some much more complicated howtos on the subject, but this one seems to have worked fine on the latest Ubuntu (after I bumped libmagick6-dev to libmagick9-dev).
  • Rails for IIS: Always Have Friend Named ‘Mike’ – Rob Conery adds some experience-based notes to installing the alpha bits to make Rails run directly on IIS.
  • Lighthouse Launches – New Rails-backed issue-tracking system aimed at developers.
  • OpenOffice.org 2.2 released – With various improvements. So far the OpenOffice family (I’m using NeoOffice on Mac) is handling my document needs just fine. Dumping MS Office is proving to be utterly untraumatic, except that I have to keep it around for a few publishers who absolutely require using their Word templates.
  • Sexy Migrations – As with Hobo, I’m not quite ready for this level of elegant terseness in my Rails, but it’s worth tracking.