Archive for June 2009

Building the postgres gem for a 64bit PostgreSQL on Snow Leopard (10.6)

sudo env ARCHFLAGS=”-arch x86_64″ gem install postgres

SMS Gateway

I have yet to try them out, but Clickatell seems like a nice, developer friendly SMS gateway.
UPDATE:
They offer a trail account where you get a few messages for free (although they override the message content with a default text), so I couldn’t resist and tried it out.
It’s really a matter of minutes if not seconds [...]

Enable SSH Agent (Key) Forwarding on Snow Leopard

I’m using Git and Capistrano to deploy some ruby applications on multiple servers. My Git setup is done with gitosis which uses a key based authentication over ssh. The deployment script logs into the remote servers and checks out the current application version via Git.
Now to have this working, one must forward the private key, [...]

iPhone Development Links

Anti-Cracker
three20 UI library
Phonegap
ObjectiveResource
Ruby Cocoa on iPhone
Facial recognition
AppStore styled views
Fireworks iPhone UI
3GS Compass test
XMPP framework
Physics framework
OAuth consumer
2D game engine

Some random links I’ve found while searching for iPhone on github.

PwnageTool 3.0 works with Snow Leopard

Ruby/Rails and MySQL on Snow Leopard (10A380)

First get and install the 64bit MySQL version:
http://dev.mysql.com/get/Downloads/MySQL-5.1/mysql-5.1.35-osx10.5-x86_64.dmg/from/pick#mirrors
Then install the MySQL gem the following way:
sudo gem install mysql — –with-mysql-config=/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql_config

Hiding a Directory from Finder (Mac OS X)

sudo chflags hidden /path/to/directory

Hello Android

Functionality for four -dimensional graphics was considered for Android, but it was dropped because of a lack of time.

Source: Hello Android, ThePragmaticBookshelf