The Middle

Ok, last typo upgrade done, I think I'm at a stable enough spot to ease back for a bit. It would appear that the static serving that got included wasn't completley ready, but the fine typo dev folks get those pesky bugs fixed just as fast as I can find them. Swanky new admin features, excellent new site design, more and more admin features, ajax-y goodness all around, and the aforementioned static publishing all make the newest typo dev releases quite a nice little package, I'm continually impressed.

Things seem to be all kosher now, just a matter of tweaking the layout, since I feel I have to be cool enough to not stick with the defaults.

And yes, I realize this blog is primarily dedicated to discussion of the underlying engine. I enjoy tinkering with it, what can I say.

Is your Debian machine failing on gem install fcgi?

Missing mkmf.rb? apt-get install ruby1.8-dev

checking for fastcgi/fcgiapp.h... no or checking for FCGX_Accept() in -lfcgi... no?

Then:

• wget http://www.fastcgi.com/dist/fcgi.tar.gz
• tar -zxvf fcgi-2.4.0.tar.gz
• ./configure
• make
• make install
• gem install fcgi Presto!

Update: Well, maybe not that easy, back to old-school for the night.

Update 2: AS IF I could go to bed with that still not working. When it's late, it's important to be sure that when you update rails, you actually update rails.

Well, there's another typo install down. I've got some fcgi problems, so I'm stuck in plain-old cgi mode, which is awfully slow, but the fancy new static page generation should help that out a lot.

Need to do some work on that CSS too. Don't get me wrong, it's much nicer than anything I could come up with, just trying to add more to my todo list.

Well, it's new edition of Typo time. If dhh gets static serving, then by God so do I. Performing the update shortly, so hold on tight.

Yes, J$, this will fix all of my old truncated articles.

We will discuss at a later date why I always decide that the appropriate time for such transactions is 1:15 in the morning.

No shipping, I wish I would've known about this subwoofer while I was in England. I totally would've come home with it.

It's apparently "J$ Day" over at Gizmodo, as seen here and here

Everyone with a syndication feed should be subscribed to Sam Ruby, especially those high profile companies creating non-standard feeds.

If you don't do it to watch your feed's back, then you simply must do it to catch the pithy Mark Pilgrim comments:

• "Holy wellformedness, Batman! ... Quick, to the UnitTestCave!" Link

• "Which part of HTTP 410 Gone didn’t you understand?" Link

• On Apple: "The guy who spent 30 minutes designing the ever-so-slight curve around the iPod screen? A god. The guy who spent weeks working late nights and weekends adding podcasting support in iTunes? Pond scum." Link

It's hard not to like a guy that's so seemingly angry and right all the time.

Well, it's the 4th of July and I'm deeply engrossed here in the UK. Happy Birthday, USA.

Just wanted to give a giant thank you and sad goodbye to all the wonderful IBM UK folks I've met over the last fortnight.

Andy, Chris, Corey, Jay, Ian, and Meg (and all the other UK staff I've forgotten), you were totally "top-shelf", as we say in the states.

I'm just hoping I get tagged for the UK venue next year, I suppose there's no better way to put it than that.

A long plane ride ahead of me...