Everytime I read another post about the simplicity and affordability of moving to Rails I go hmm; this time I’m going HMMMMM!
InfoQ: Architecting TekPub – Moving from ASP.NET MVC to Ruby on Rails.
Tip/Trick: Enabling SSL on IIS 7.0 Using Self-Signed Certificates – ScottGu’s Blog.
Rebuilding my dev environment…always have to google this one.
With a new Windows7 VM on my MBP I have MSSQL Server 2008 R2, vs2008, vs2010…and sadly SourceGear Vault 3.5 which made it so SQL couldn’t connect to a server via the object browser.
Looked like this:
Unable to cast COM object of type ‘System.__ComObject’ to interface type ‘Microsoft.VisualStudio.OLE.Interop.IServiceProvider’. This operation failed because the QueryInterface call on the COM component for the interface with IID ‘{6D5140C1-7436-11CE-8034-00AA006009FA}’ failed due to the following error: No such interface supported (Exception from HRESULT: 0×80004002 (E_NOINTERFACE)).
These helpful posts fixed me up:
http://support.sourcegear.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=12680&p=52790&hilit=management+studio#p52790
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/sqltools/thread/d5d3e5fc-d8ce-4f42-b7ea-9bbbb7756a20/
OS X Terminal displays a blank window instead of a command prompt | MacFixIt – CNET Reviews. It is tough to get by without a reboot these days and I’m not savvy enough yet to know how to start mysql without terminal.
Hoping to Make iPhone Toys as a Full-Time Job – NYTimes.com. Spring blog cleaning here; the fact that I’m an an inconsistent blogger is highlighted by this saved draft from 4/5/2009 regarding making iPhone apps a full-time job. Back then the plan was to write an iphone app (puts me is a small pool of people…ha), throw it out there for free, learn, promote, then make money with round two.
Looking back over the goal I set last year has been interesting. While I’ve made little strides in the development of this plan I have devoted time on the thought of my applications; and in that time the app world has changed and that changes my plan. MonoTouch is a Godfather horse-head in the bed for developing iPhone apps. I wasn’t likely going to use MonoTouch but I had downloaded and played around with their tools. With Apple’s latest headlines I’m certainly not swimming without objective-c now. Additionally, changes to the commerce model allows greater app flexibility and then there’s always the iPad. It’ll be interesting to see how the next year shakes out…
