My Game Jam post is waaay overdue but some stuff happened this week (impromptu upgrade, server migration) so I’ll only get around to post about it probably later today.
Anyway, this post is just about the new version up over at RailsFTW. This experimental build is based on TCS’s patched Ruby build which boasted a ~200% increase in performance.
See it for yourself:
Still hung-over from Global Game Jam 2012 (mini-write-up later) when I went to the RailsInstaller site on a whim.
Noticed that it still isn’t using Rails 3.2. So I decided to update my own to be ahead again.
Hopefully this would be the last RailsFTW version (hoping Luis would be able to convince Wayne to include MySQL to RailsInstaller so I won’t need to this anymore LOL).
That little app/wallpaper we made at the code retreat? I’ve published it and it’s now free for download at the Android Marketplace.
At the moment it’s not properly indexed in the Marketplace yet so searching “Game of Life Wallpaper” won’t return the link. A workaround is to search it using the search terms “code retreat“.
..or podcast, whatever you want to call it.
So I’m gonna be recording rants for the next few weeks to figure out and fix my vocal problems. I’m ok with topic suggestions but I’m not really expecting any.
Will be posting the recordings on this site until I get to setup another page for the recordings (probably a wiki).
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UPDATE
Podcasts now posted daily at http://bry-rants.tumblr.com/
Thanks to a Battlefield 3 Beta losing streak that I blame on my sucky internet connection, I’ve decided to update my hack-job of a standalone Windows installer for Rails.
Now there are two separate installers, a Ruby 1.8.7 + Rails 3.0.10 installer and a Ruby 1.9.2 + Rails 3.1.0. Here’s a table to give a quick comparison between these two installers with RailsInstaller thrown into the mix:
| RailsInstaller 2 | RailsFTW (Rails 3.1) | RailsFTW (Rails 3.0) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ruby version | 1.9.2-p290 | 1.8.7-p352 | |
| Rails version | 3.1.0 | 3.0.10 | |
| File Size | ~55MB | ~20MB | ~10MB |
| DB Adapter Gems | sqlite3, pg, tiny_tds (MS SQL Server) | sqlite3, mysql2 | |
| Additional Features | git, DevKit | - | |
| Internet Connection Required? | Yes | No (Bundler will fail to connect to server but new apps will still work) | No |
| Compiled by | Some of the biggest names in the Ruby community | Some random third world developer. LOL | |
It’s the 2nd year anniversary of me using self-hosted WordPress blog. What better way of spending it than taking the originals down and replacing them with an .htaccess file redirecting to this site.
Options +FollowSymLinks RewriteEngine on RewriteRule (.*) http://blog.bryanbibat.net/$1 [R=301,L]
I’m still keeping the .com site for possible future usage. I might install Moodle or whatever captures my fancy this year that doesn’t require the power and flexibility of a VPS.
I’ve finally found some time in my busy schedule to post something about the recent changes in this site.
As part of making my “freelance” status semi-official, I’m currently migrating stuff from www.bryanbibat.com to this site, www.bryanbibat.net. You might have noticed that I’ve already merged my old blogs to this single blog as well as modified the links in my portfolio pages to point to here.
Another change is the shift from using my Gmail/Yahoo Mail account to bry@bryanbibat.net, and this is what I’ll be talking about today.
As mentioned in my earlier Tweet, I’ve begun streamlining my sites to make them more functional instead of just being yet another outlet for my thoughts (we’ve got social networking sites for that).
First thing on the list was to replace my Sweetcron Lifestream with a single page portfolio. The reason behind this is simple: when people go to my website, they would expect to see information about me and not a stream of all of my social networking site activity.
As to the design of the page, I only had two main points to keep in mind:
The identity part is a bit tricky, though I could summarize it as “simple, yet subtle”. As you can see from the redesigned bryanbibat.com, everything is simple. No flashy graphics, just a clean one-page HTML site. The subtle part is the inclusion of jQuery for the scrolling and the lightbox — both unexpected features.
I think the more subtle (or should I say, more “bry” 
) part of the whole redesign is the “mirror” gimmick. The image above would spoil you already but anyway, here’s the gimmick: visit both bryanbibat.com and (my newly rented site) bryanbibat.net.
Yup, each is an opposite version of the other. The symbolism behind that, I leave to the reader. Heck, I might just be screwing around with the visitors and there might not even be a deeper meaning behind it. 
The fun part? The HTML code for both sites are exactly the same.
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That’s pretty much the biggest change that I’m going to do for this streamlining thing. The other stuff is mostly invisible to my network anyway.
I’m now selling books to help cover for shipping expenses spread hard to find knowledge to people thirsty for information. More information here.
Will spend the rest of the week in UP Diliman for Y4iT starting tomorrow. My planned schedule was posted here.
Will try to post short comments about the event either here or my Twitter account (I don’t want to pollute my Plurk with IT stuff ).
(Logo c/o Y4iT site)
