I was debating with myself whether I’d write something about my recent Singapore trip, if it’s relevant for this blog or not and the like.
Then I thought, ah screw it. Relevance, schmelevance.
Sowing the Seeds
Just a quick write-up of my Pecha Kucha talk for RedDotRubyConference last night.
Sowing the Seeds
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Full “script” below the cut. If you’ve been there in my talk, I ad-libbed a lot more this time around than when I did my Ignite talk.
April 2011 PhRUG Meetup
Last night was supposed to be just an informal meeting; last month’s low attendance made us move from the “1-3 speakers” scheme to a “10 minute show and tell” programme. But people just kept arriving and everything went better than expected.
And yeah, some guys from Pivotal Labs also showed up and participated in the talks.
The Pivotal guys went with some people from MOL/Friendster. The former were contracted to do some stuff for the latter, but I didn’t ask if they’re rewriting the social networking site in Ruby. (I was too busy eating pizza to eavesdrop) That’s them in the pic above, with Winston presenting in the front.
Anyway, here’s a list of the talks last night:
- Rad talked about fb_graph
- Nate talked about building RubyGems using Jasmine as the example
- Bry talked about web-app-theme
- Johann talked about RubyMine (which, coincidentally, was used also by Nate in his talk)
- Winston talked about GoogleVisualr
- Topher talked about Hancock SSO for Sinatra
Thanks to Exist for sponsoring the venue, Topher for taking pictures, and Topher again (and Rad?) for the food.
For updates on future Ruby meetups, join our Google group.
2nd year anniversary of this blog
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.
Select Best Download Server for Ubuntu Packages
I just learned recently that there are no local download servers for Ubuntu packages here in the Philippines. In other words, for the past few months (or years), every apt-get install I do downloads the packages from the main Canonical server in UK.
And I thought my slow download speeds were just caused by this country’s crappy internet.
Anyway, the solution is simple. In Synaptic Package Manager, go to Settings -> Repositories and choose Other… from the “Download from” dropdown. This will open the Choose a Download Server window. Just click the Select Best Server and Ubuntu will ping all download servers, choosing the best server automatically.
This will probably select a Singaporean or Malaysian server depending on your connection.