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Published Again!

Wednesday, September 27th, 2006

It’s always nice to see your work in print. Don’t get me wrong – online publishing is great, but there’s just something…nice about holding something you’ve written. Now it’s not the first time something I’ve written has been printed, but this time it is directly attributable to me.

On page 50 of Issue 66 of Linux User & Developer you will find my article about Open Source software for children, inspired by my childrens recent painless conversion to Linux.

Go buy, read, enjoy, and provide me with feedback please. Oh and keep an eye out – there is more where that came from (hint, hint)!

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Triumphant Return

Wednesday, August 30th, 2006

I’m now back after a weeks holiday in France, preceded by an intensive week of work at my day job handing off a particularly long running project to its new victim maintainer.

Unfortunately I now seem to have been struck down by some sort of bug that whilst not serious enough to prevent me from work, it does make the experience pretty unpleasant.

In other news it looks like I should have an article published in the next issue of Linux User & Developer and I’m writing a couple more for other ‘outlets’. Futher bulletins as events warrant.

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How to install Ruby on Rails on Ubuntu

Tuesday, July 25th, 2006

The instructions for installing Ruby on Rails have always been lumped in with the Debian ones, and over time the page has gotten pretty messy. I’ve recently been having numerous discussions with various people about the perceived difficulties in installing Rails and its offspring on Ubuntu (and Debian). I’d been meaning to write an installation guide for Ubuntu for quite a while now to address this, but I never seemed to get around to it.

Whilst at LugRadio Live this weekend, I attended the Ruby on Rails BOF during which someone mentioned an install guide and I said I was going to be (re)writing one. This prompted me to pull my finger and actually do it, so without further ado let me introduce the new guide for installing Ruby on Rails on Ubuntu. I decided to create a new page instead of updating the old one not because that’s the Open Source Way but rather because the old one may still be useful to people.

I’m planning on creating a similar (probably almost identical) guide for Debian, and I need to add a couple more bits and pieces to it. I’m also planning on duplicating the content to the equivalent Ubuntu wiki page.

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